Well you should see it do its thing this weekend! (I don’t yet know how successfully)

Awesome, I'm glad you're enjoying the series! That is a very good tip - one I knew but rarely consider. My personal thoughts are we need platinum for ion thrusters to make this efficient - especially for zero g builds. A ship with a welder and grinder would be ideal, but we also need to get some essential facilities up first. Good thinking, and something I do want to do!

A dedicated EVA suit 🤔

Haha thank you. Kinda makes the stupid decision to jump less embarrassing lol.

Thank you Keeper. Glad you're still enjoying the videos!

@@Psy-Primealways enjoying and watching just don’t always comment

I agree! We’re just going to have to make what we have work. Well said.

Almost…. But I still live to fight another episode! Thanks for watching 😁

Thank you, and I’m very well thanks. How are you, Reaper?

I believe that’s true, although CIG have been known to change their minds.

Optimal content be damned, I'm telling the story as it happens :) That's an interesting point of view on AI progress and where it's going - I'd have to say I think we're so much closer to real-time gameplay AI at a genuinely conversational level - in fact, the AI I'm using here is extraordinarily close! For some context I was using a paid-for version of ChatGPT 4o, and the only edits in the conversation were to cut out the short delays between responses - and one or two long ones caused by connection loss. There was no rehearsal, pre-scripting, or retakes. Of course, the model isn't quite complete yet - 4o is missing the audio-video capability that it was designed with (waiting on the release of that). If you're unfamiliar - that puts the 'o' in 4o - o for Omni. This will give GPT the capability to directly process audio and video in, and directly respond with audio without having to pass through a text input / output process- meaning 4o will be able to read tone, emotion, expression, and pronunciation, and respond in kind including whispering, character, and use of pause words / sounds, laughs and giggles. So our ships AI will be getting a major upgrade in the coming months. Exciting times! Thanks as always for watching! I massively appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts :)

@@Psy-Prime Yeah! I saw some of the announcement/hype videos around ChatGPT 4o's release. It definitely looks cool, if it delivers everything promised in the teasers. I've seen some discussions about 1) the tactical uses of conversational pauses, and 2) ethics in pitching this kind of product to consumers. Someone pointed out that pause words, giggles, etc are a useful way to buy time -- just like real humans would while they gather their thoughts for a second. It lets a human or LLM AI hide processing or cache ahead in the conversation. So it kills two birds with one stone, makes virtue of a vice, etc. That said, I had not paid much attention to the AI ethics debate, but I saw some shake-ups around members of OpenAI. Supposedly, one of the concerns that ethicists are discussing is the potential for a sufficiently human-like AI to pose a tempting alternative for some people to transfer their social and emotional interaction needs onto a more limited and definable/controllable substitute conversation/relationship partner. That is, if AI developers don't strictly control what their AI models can do or are allowed to. I think it's kinda tilting at windmills, though. Some boffin out there is GOING to make a girlfriend bot with realistic conversational interaction, and users are GOING to be able to specify personality lenses like 20% tsundere, 5% cute nyancat, etc. XD I've already seen some people prematurely posting "first AI girlfriend" content that isn't really there yet. I'm using cute anime examples, but given what AI has already fulfilled for Internet Rule #34, I don't think that trend is going to abruptly stop any time. :D Both IRL and online, I have dealt with a lot of people who indulge our innate human risk aversion to various distorted extents -- people who choose the blue pill's illusory world and social isolation instead of developing a risk appetite for a more real-world life with all its mundane risks. Heck, I AM one, given how much I'm emotionally invested in my parasocial relationships online. XD I can't really knock it, b/c I am more than half positive I'd totally sign up for a toolkit that lets me run a local instance of a "cute but sassy" female Jarvis. I'd want to use it as an always-available accountability buddy to motivate me to get out of the house. But I also know I'd be partially transferring my emotional needs onto it even as it did its job. Sooo how to protect (some of) us from our own worst tendencies? :D So many people spend a big chunk of their waking hours online and in video games. What happens when the AI gets good enough to give us a consistent and tame online gaming experience with other "players" instead of having to roll the dice on weird shock-jock or racist griefers and trolls in every Squad or CoD lobby? :D I'm 2+ decades past that peak (or low?) of my life, but if I were 25-30 again, I'd sure as heck jump at the chance of a more consistent non-human interaction. And that's directly going off precedent when I spent 15 minutes total in GTA V online lobbies, before I swore off other GTA players forever and subsequently spent 100s of hours in solo lobbies with just myself and the inane scripted game NPCs. XD

@@Psy-Prime Oh, and yeah it might happen in far fewer than 5-20 years. I think what's sufficiently realistic here is very subjective, and 4o may already be sufficient for some purposes, as you described. It's really amazing that you had that seamless of a production experience with it. That makes me genuinely excited about seeing more uses of it and maybe trying it out for myself if I can find some good scenarios. Broadly, I'm going off of my previous experience with VR. I said I'd wait a generation or three to see it gain more widespread adoption, development, and lower costs via economies of scale. What I see is still a bit too jittery, even though it's VERY cool. (I'm one of those people who get big nausea from the eye-ear-brain imbalance thing) Still waiting after a decade-plus, personally. Similarly for AI chatbots that feel sufficiently real, I'm holding out for something I wouldn't mind chatting with in an IRL environment for 15-30 minutes. Like, if I'm going to ask ChatGPT about e.g. whether due to constant horse riding medieval knights were as bow-legged as American western frontier cowboys (or whether the latter was even real), I'd love for the convo to be part consensus, part revelation (new to me info), and part healthy discussion/debate. (This specific AI-as-movie-Jarvis/Her/etc scenario is totally separate from much more mundane uses of AI tools for more usual work/creative tasks.)

That would seem to be the general consensus, about the risks to social behaviour and participation. For now at least it would seem that some precautions are being taken. The omni-voice model is delayed another month while OpenAI work on safety and GPT's ability to refuse certain kinds of requests, while at the same time they upscale their architecture to allow en-masse realtime use upon wider launch. I've seen independent early testing of the full model, and it would appear that the demos we've all seen are genuine use of the AI. That, and the ever accelerating development thanks to improved hardware for training the models, and the use of AI itself to further AI research, leads me to expect we'll be seeing the advent of General AI and near indistinguishable conversational ability within 18-24 months. Hold on to your hat!

@@Psy-Prime Yeah, the tools that help us make better tools are compounding and accelerating development. :D Ethics aside, as a creator how would you feel about enlisting a small crew of AI engineer teammates in a game like SE? In any capacity from merely conversation props to full-on in-game AI players. They could be a background NPC population, to a supporting cast for you alone or you and Sp33dw33d. Someone did an AI-powered conversation mod for Bannerlord as a proof of concept, using NPC-specific sets of "personal knowledge" for the AI to draw on for each NPC's conversation. It was like watching an old 80s text adventure like Zork, but in realtime and with less obvious multiple choice response options. And speaking of GTA V, someone there did something similar including AI voices and personalities. Filling the emptiness of SE's world has been a long-time wishlist item for the community, and Keen are dropping hints about it in their next update. I can see that the automaton update may have laid some of the groundwork for more active future NPC factions, though probably not in the imminent exploration update..?

She's exceptional at naming - except that boom-er-ang implies an unwanted return-to-sender.... She also came up with blammo torpedo. Unfortunately I failed to un-pause recording for that conversation. So, I've decided, in the interest of keeping the missile printable and at a manageable size I'm forgoing the decoy dispersion and instead will pre-launch some more durable decoys from the launcher ahead of the missile. It's more reliable, and with less points of failure. The missile will spin though - but more to keep any fire from being concentrated in one spot, and to look cool. Thanks for watching Mackers!

@@Psy-Prime Well, at least she didn't call it the mk14 torpedo 😆 That makes more sense to me, I wouldn't even differentiate between a decoy and the real deal. Fire/drop/launch several real-deals with 3-5 seconds interval - the turrets shouldn't be able to lock onto them that quick (except the first one). I can't imagine the basic build being much different between a decoy and a real-deal - except magnesium content? I don't know, never done orbital strikes in SE. Looking forwards to seeing how it works out though.

Hopefully I'll surprise you with it's simplicity and effectiveness rather than it's mk14 level of 'reliability' 🤣

Thanks El Cid! Exciting times ahead.

Thank you! So, the FS doesn't have a remote control - yet. When the time comes to look at short range remote mining it's something I can add easily. For a rescue option - it really doesn't work as suit antenna range is too feeble to give a long enough window for rescue. I think I will be either expanding the build area into a larger hangar - I'll need construction ships eventually and they need somewhere to live.

I'll hold my response for the next episode....

Thanks Mackers!

The only option for this is the Idle movement option in the turrets settings. You can set it quickly with build vision or in the settings before it's built to stop it misaligning, but unfortunately there's no master override. Maybe a script on the grid that checks every few minutes for turrets on the grid and disables the idle movement automatically could save you from forgetting. I bet ChatGPT 4 could code that for you.

Great job catching up! And I apologise in advance for the janky start to the 2 idiots series - still will be good for a laugh!

Amazing! Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll pin this for everyone who’s interested.

I’m humbled, truely. And those are some awesome tips! Thank you. I’ve usually handled docking my placing the stationary connector ‘lights’ up/down so a top mounted camera will put the x-hair dead on the top light to line up. I may have to give the Balrog-Vin-Method a try at an appropriate time too. A heartfelt thank-you for watching, and for taking the time to make your thoughts known. 🤟🏻

Watch it fully and maybe watch the episode before too. I’m trying to get the elevator to travel at a constant speed no matter how many floors you travel. I’m starting from a system that works like you described but it’s not scalable as more floors = more speed. We found an elegant solution in the end.

@@Psy-Prime oh yeah definitely, i watched the whole thing but I’m familiar with coding so I saw some easy solutions, the sequential order would ensure that there was a constant slow pace, as the fast pace is caused by too many going off at once, if one goes than immediately the second, it’d be faster, I should probably finish it as I got halfway through before (getting distracted and not paying attention, probably should clarify since I did see the end 💀) having to do boring work stuff like right a report on someone’s death smh

@@doctorgrubious7725 right on! There’s many solutions to each problem so I’m definitely open to learning alternatives. And as a full time worker myself - yes, work stuff first, then YouTubiness!

lol thanks Reaper!

Sure is! Blew my mind how quick it can stop from free-fall…. And 0-100km/h in about 1 second lol 😂

@@Psy-Prime lol I noticed that from when you first flew it you almost crashed into the Ceiling.

Oh you noticed that did you lol 😂 I’m gonna have to set up a take-off mode.

@@Psy-Prime yea I seen that 😂.

Woo thanks Keeper! 🤟🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Those suggestions about moving the beacon…. Or setting the beacon after extending the piston… and the tips about max angle ( it is set to align) are exactly what this system needs to fix the last issues! Thank you 🙏

@@Psy-Prime Nah, you did all the work, I just had the advantage of coming along 11 months later after banging my head against the voxels repeatedly enough that I saw those two bits :)

I know the feeling! Only 3 choices remain in that situation: 1. Mods - there’s a lot of block options via mods but then you’re limited to having use those mods to use the grid in its full form. 2. Redesign to use the blocks you have - can be limiting but at least it’s a working modless design. 3. Best fit. Lean into the mismatch and make it a feature, or mask the issue with something bigger. Always a big bug bear for me too!

That’s a great thought and certainly can be taken to extremes. I’ve no doubt people will take the idea far further than I was able to knock up in an afternoon!

Thanks for finding me! Good question. I’ve found that GPT is accurate as long as it’s referring to up to date documentation. I provided it with a link to the official wiki as a source to use. I do have to temper that with experience though as sometimes it pulls info from older sources - for example the broadcast script - that was a function that got removed from SE due to abuse on multiplayer servers. I’d use AI to help move things along with the expectation that its suggestions might need further development to work.

Would still have to triangulate to know exactly where we’ve placed the gps marker - lots of traveling about. But yes that’s one way.

@@Psy-Prime no need to travel, the entire SE solar system is in the same static grid (centert on the center of the earth like planet.) you can see a gps marker on your hud (press h) if you manually change the numbers along an axis you can look if the marker went the wright or wrong way.

I guess with a known distance and direction that’s absolutely right!

@@Psy-Prime Having now seen the next episode i see you found a better way. I was today years old when i learned a new trick :)

Thank you! Yes, kinda - Athena is the new ChatGPT 4o, but she’s just role playing, because it’s running on a separate device and has no access to the game. So, more of an advisor.

Yup. Thought I’d give the Friday crew a shot at first views for a change 😉

Thanks El Cid! I might make a few additional tweaks but I’m quite pleased so far.

@@Psy-Prime I can't wait to see it fly,are you going to put any weapons on it? Was thinking maybe put camera's on the left and right so you can see Since the drills obscure your view.

Great idea on the cameras! Weapons….. perhaps, although if we got attacked there’s not a lot of chance of winning… better to outrun than outgun.

Excellent idea! What a blast from the past!

Awesome for sure! Thank you, and welcome to our humble channel.

That would be very handy!

@@Psy-Prime do you have a tutorial for setting this up?

@@Byrkster you won’t need a whole tutorial. This ChatGPT voice mode only works through the app on Apple devices - So I plug my Mac audio out into my recording setup and run it from that. Totally separate to the game - she’s just extremely good at role playing like she’s in the game.

@@Psy-Prime I was not sure, I will have to play around with it. Thanks. Keep up the great videos!!!

Hi, thanks, and welcome 😁 I don’t yet but I’ll put an explainer in an episode - it’s not complex enough to warrant a thing if its own.

Wait what! That’s an actual thing in SE? I’ll admit I’ve not used the mission system very much. Ok then… that’s plan C if the script fails. Thank you!

@@Psy-Prime yep! its not the intended way for search contracts to be used but it works extremely well

Thanks Keith! It would be awesome if it works first time, but if not we’ll debug and fix it!… Or go to plan C.

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Hello and thanks Keeper. Today's a lovely day.

Thanks El Cid. Yes, SC does have the most awesome designs! Especially up close. And yes I’ve gone very overkill - possibly. Ship’s gonna be heavy with a full load but we’ll test and decide how many thrusters we need to keep.

Thanks! It’s ChatGPT 4o with voice mode (still text to speech for a little bit longer).

I think this comment deserves a response in the next one. Awesome stuff Mackers! Thank you.

@@Psy-Prime All thanks go to you fella - this episode was on another level, editing, music - all superb. Thoroughly enjoying the fruits of your labour 👍

Awesome! Feel free to pop a link or info on how to find yours in your message. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who’d like to see what you did.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thankyouverymuch, Keith!

Hmm maybe. I might let her choose.

Haha thanks El Cid. I think one Brit is enough for now but maybe when we get the full voice functionality of gpt-4o it’ll be possible. As for music… I actually do create some myself, not by ai though. But it’s not as good as what I have access to through licensing lol.

@@Psy-Prime ahh what program do you use, my friend makes beats so I use to dapple in making music, I'm not to good at but it is fun.

@@SirElCidDELeon used to use Cubase and logic but now I mostly play around on Launchpad.

@@Psy-Prime oh ok,I think the one I used was call fruit studios, but it's been over 15 years so not sure.lol