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yuntian ◴[] No.44565750[source]
Thanks everyone for trying out NeuralOS, and apologies for the frustrating user experience!

I coded up the demo myself and didn't anticipate how disruptive the intermittent warning messages about waiting users would become. The demo is quite resource-intensive: each session currently requires its own H100 GPU, and I'm already using a dispatcher-worker setup with 8 parallel workers. Unfortunately, demand exceeded my setup, causing significant lag and I had to limit sessions to 60 more seconds when others are waiting. Additionally, the underlying diffusion model itself is slow to run, resulting in a frame rate typically below 2 fps, further compounded by network bottlenecks.

As for model capabilities, NeuralOS is indeed quite limited at this point (as acknowledged in my paper abstract). That's why the demo interactions shown in my tweet were minimal (opening Firefox, typing a URL).

Overall, this is meant as a proof-of-concept demonstrating the potential of generative, neural-network-powered GUIs. It's fully open-source, and I hope others can help improve it going forward!

Thanks again for the honest feedback.

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deepdarkforest ◴[] No.44569273[source]
This is a shockingly fresh idea. I get that this generates every pixel from scratch, unlike Gemini approaches. But, i wonder how do you think this type of neural OS would be able to communicate with the internet or other similar neural os. It would have to at least send and get http responses?
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1. idiotsecant ◴[] No.44572436[source]
And when you lose your Internet connection, no problem! The OS can just imagine what the content should be!!
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2. carlhjerpe ◴[] No.44574418[source]
Is AI just fancy text compression on steroids? :p
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3. vrighter ◴[] No.44580836[source]
https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/abs/2021/13...

pretty much