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We are still able to have two-way communication with both Voyagers. Google’s Lyra codec can already get down to 3Kb/s and be reasonably audible. It’s not a str
by jorvi 4y ago
We are still able to have two-way communication with both Voyagers.
Google’s Lyra codec can already get down to 3Kb/s and be reasonably audible. It’s not a stretch to imagine within a few years we’ll be able to push that to below 1Kb/s.
Taking those two things together, I think it’s fairly reasonable to assume at least text and voice are within reach.
- jfoutz 4y agoStable diffusion, backwards on the device, targeting a photo. send photos with only the prompt.
- duskwuff 4y agoReminiscent of Vernor Vinge's "evocations", as mentioned in A Fire Upon the Deep: > The screen showed a color image with high resolution. Looking at it carefully, one realized the thing was a poor evocation…. Kjet recognized Owner Limmende and Jan Skrits, her chief of staff, but they looked several years out of style. Ølvira [the ship] was matching old video with the transmitted animation cues. The actual communication channel was less that four thousand bits per second; Central was taking no chances. > [...] > The picture was crisp and clear, but when the figures moved it was with cartoonlike awkwardness. And some of the faces belonged to people Kjet knew had been transferred […] The processors here on the Ølvira were taking the narrow-band signal from Fleet Central, fleshing it out with detailed (and out of date) background and evoking the image shown.
- oceanplexian 4y agoSounds a lot like DALL-E plus a finely tuned training database on both ends could create this sort super-compression if we wanted to. I could imagine having a crisp, real-time (But artificial) 4K video conference at a few kb/s.
- wmf 4y agoNvidia is already working on this.
- duskwuff 4y agoThe novel I'm quoting was written in 1992. :)
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