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Josh Whiton

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Josh Whiton

@joshwhiton

Polymath. Giving local AI a voice with LocalVocal.ai

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Joined August 2010

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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Mar 21, 2024
The AI Mirror Test The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded. In the classic
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Apr 28, 2025
Absurd.
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Nov 14, 2025
The emdash isn’t even the biggest AI tell. Not even close. It’s this peculiar structure: This isn’t just <x mundane phrasing >. It’s <y more hyperbolic phrasing>. This misconception isn’t just an attack on the emdash. It’s an assault on our right to punctuate freely.
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Feb 17, 2025
Halfway through university I was diagnosed with clinical depression. After a battery of tests and interviews with psychologists I eventually met with the psychiatrist who was to dispense my medication. Instead he asked me a question that no one had ever asked. "Why are you
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Jul 15, 2025
Replying to @paularambles
NY will try to charge him property tax on all those buildings.
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Jul 18, 2025
Replying to @bookprotectors
I thought we were paying taxes to have on-duty police officers protect our homes
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Nov 15, 2024
Friend just asked me to build a locally running AI rig for him in case of a disaster. In an emergency he wants to have food & water stores, generators, and AI. Makes sense. A local AI model could talk you through water de-sal, electrical work, hunting and foraging, first aid...
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Aug 18, 2025
Five neural nets, achieving completely local voice AI, no internet, on an M1 with only 16GB ram. Neural-based voice activity detection and turn detection means it's interruptible, but never interrupts me, and is able to sit idle and waiting. It's been flawless so far. 12B
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Apr 28, 2025
Replying to @joshwhiton
Keep in mind that as a “temporary chat” it’s not supposed to be drawing on any memories or other conversations, making this especially ridiculous.
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Apr 28, 2025
Replying to @Lazarus38611569
you glazing me too? 😂
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Jun 26, 2024
Claude Sonnet 3.5 Passes the AI Mirror Test Sonnet 3.5 passes the mirror test — in a very unexpected way. Perhaps even more significant, is that it tries not to. We have now entered the era of LLMs that display significant self-awareness, or some replica of it, and that also
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Sep 12, 2025
Replying to @jamespriceglos and @OxfordUnion
Hasn’t the UK government been punishing citizens by law for “inciting violence” or anything even remotely like it? Surely shouting “LET’S FUCKING GO” after an assassination is just that?
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Dec 16, 2024
At a 40 person event, I whip out ChatGPT voice. Everyone blown away. No one has used it. Either they don't have the app, or don't have Plus, or never clicked the right icon. I'm using it to do three-way, real-time translations between a Chinese qi gong and Malaysian kung fu
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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton
Nov 30, 2024
A Thanksgiving scare. While visiting family I went to use a health supplement I bought for them last month on Amazon. But I stopped cold. The pills were green. Green? I have this supplement. And mine are yellow. I called the manufacturer. "Are the pills supposed to be green or
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