Hey! While I was similar to your child (now a good few years older), I'm not a parent or really knowledgeable in these situations, but I'd highly recommend checking out Dr. K ("Healthy Gamer").
I am not a gamer, but I discovered Dr. K on a podcast talking about issues with young men. He spoke a lot about incels. Really interesting and smart man. Definitely a voice worth listening to. Especially if you're concerned about the health of young men. Great recommendation.
It was a two part episode called "This Keeps People Lazy & Pathetic! - Porn, Sex, Women, AI Girlfriends & Weak Men | Healthy Gamer" on the podcast Impact Theory.
There are two episodes one from March 5 and 6 of this year.
They probably mean sapient. We consider most animals sentient but only humans sapient.
That said, rights don't happen through scientific discovery but through reform or revolution. There are strong economic incentives to keep animal rights minimal and there is only very weak political will to change that. It also doesn't help that in the US there are strong religious doctrines that oppose the notion of animals deserving rights at all.
It's worth mentioning that there are indeed jurisdictions (not sure about the US) where animal cruelty laws are actually framed as animal rights (usually with some limitations, e.g. only considering vertebrates) rather than as protection of private property but even they usually don't include a right to life or bodily integrity and are flexible about what constitutes cruelty and what can be done to reduce it.
I made a small web app with it that uses it to remove backgrounds from images (with BRIA AI's RMBG1.4 model) at https://aether.nco.dev
The fact you don't need to send your data to an API and this runs even on smartphones is really cool. I foresee lots of projects using this in the future, be it small vision, language or other utility models (depth estimation, background removal, etc), looks like a bright future for the web!
I'm already working on my next project, and it'll definitely use transformers.js again!
If I'm not mistaken, this is not on the models itself, but rather on the implementation of the addon.
I haven't found an open source VSCode or WebStorm addon yet that allows me to use a local model and implements code completion and commands as good as GitHub Copilot.
They either miss a chat feature and/or inline action / code completion and/or fill-in-the-middle models. And if they do, they don't provide the context as intelligently (? an assumption!) as GH's Copilot does.
One alternative I liked was Supermaven: It's really really fast and has a huge context window, so it knows almost your whole project. That was nice! But - one thing I ultimately didn't continue using it for: It doesn't support chat and/or inline commands (CTRL+I on VSCode's GH Copilot).
I feel like a really good Copilot alternative is definitely a still missing.
But: Regarding your question, I think GitHub Copilot's VSCode extension is the best - as of now. The WebStorm extension is sadly not as good, it misses the "inline command" function which IMHO is a must.
Continue.dev allows for this. You can even mix hosted Chat options like GPT-4 (via API) with local completion. I typically use a smaller model for faster text completion and a larger model (with a bigger context) for chat.
https://crdt.tech/implementations