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A bit off topic, but I am currently travelling through Europe by train. It is such a boon to just be outside everyday and meet locals and fellow travellers. Hig
by xen_relay 4mo ago
A bit off topic, but I am currently travelling through Europe by train. It is such a boon to just be outside everyday and meet locals and fellow travellers. Highly recommend.
- Invictus0 4mo agoI am also traveling through Europe, currently in Budapest. Twice now in the last week, I have heard AI music being played through the speakers at restaurants.
- rob74 4mo agoWell, I think I couldn't distinguish AI music from the good (or bad) old human-made "elevator music", but maybe I'm mistaken and it would stand out to me when I hear it...
- larodi 4mo agolisten carefully and if it rings (as in being little distorted, or too noisy) it is most probably AI. and it is nearly-impossible to obscure it, unless you replay the whole score using classic approach. i would imagine how irritating is this music to everyone a child indeed, as children have higher thresh of what they hear.
- Cthulhu_ 4mo agoThat's probably to be expected, before that they used covers of popular songs, likely produced by a company that offers much lower rates than e.g. the original artists. I prefer silence over that tbh.
- kingkongjaffa 4mo agoAI K-pop was in the cafes in Seoul.
- xen_relay 4mo agoI am in Budapest tomorrow. Lmk if you want to meet for a coffee :)
- dgellow 4mo agoHope the heat doesn’t impact your travel plans too much. Feel free to reach out if you’re around Hamburg, always happy to meet HNers
- xen_relay 4mo agoThe heat is ferocious indeed! I will, thank you!
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- alex_x 4mo agolmk if you ever visit Zürich :)
- chadgpt3 4mo agoHow do you find the language barrier problem? Do you speak English to everyone you meet?
- embedding-shape 4mo agoHighly depends on the country. Go to Sweden and you'll have a hard time even practicing Swedish, as soon as the natives discover you're also not a native, they'll switch to English immediately in most places of the country. On the other hand, go to Spain outside the metropolitan areas and besides the youth, most people won't understand and can't speak English. Then you have places like France, where even if many of them know English, they'll just refuse to speak English, unless it's an emergency, then English comes out of them with no problem. Then some French tourists also like to travel down to the North of Spain and try to talk French with us, for some reason. I cannot even count these occurrences on one hand anymore. It really depends on the country and maybe more importantly, rural vs metropolitan areas. Besides, humans are surprisingly good at communicating just with our hands, faces and pointing at stuff, you can definitively get by as a tourist in a country without sharing any spoken languages, and after a few days you'll both learn some of the basic words of their language, and "shortcuts" for pointing/hand-waving through what you want, making the whole thing a lot easier :)
- latexr 4mo agoAlso relevant to note that some European countries dub everything while others sub. That no doubt plays a part in the population’s understanding of foreign languages. > and "shortcuts" for pointing/hand-waving through what you want To expand on this idea, there are books designed specifically for travels which are pocket sized and contain a bunch of images so you can point at what you want.
- triceratops 4mo ago> even if many of them know English, they'll just refuse to speak English How they keep their English speaking "in shape" then?
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- latexr 4mo agoJust wait until everyone is using AR glasses which listen to your conversation, run it through an LLM, then use the speaker to bark an answer at you with the wearer’s previously synthesised voice, while they’re scrolling instagram inside the lenses. /dystopia
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- xen_relay 4mo agoHaha, enjoy! I am staying in cheap hostels or sleeper trains. I don't have the money, only the time. Which is more precious I realised.
- simianwords 4mo agoI’m in Europe travelling and AI has been a boon navigating the utterly fragmented public transport. I have been pasting screenshots of NS international to ChatGPT and getting from A to B. I wouldn’t be so confident without ChatGPT I wrote about how ChatGPT can help even more in this space https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/ai-can-fix-the-fragmented-online-public-transport-space/ https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/ai-can-fix-the-fragmented-o...
- kuschku 4mo agoThere are already solutions for doing exactly that. e.g., DB's apps allow purchasing tickets for many other countries, and you can find and purchase DB tickets via Google Flights.
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- tootie 4mo agoI have a pet theory that we were better off when the economy flowed through Wall St rather than Silicon Valley because Wall St people ride the subway to work.
- surajrmal 4mo agoIt can also be exhausting. Extended travel makes me very tired. And I generally like talking to people.
- leptons 4mo agoThe word "travel" comes from "travail", or "to toil, work strenuously, or suffer". But I'd still rather be travelling and seeing the world than being nervous about my job being cut due to AI.