You can't ban LLMs at this point, they're too useful, it's impossible to track their use, they could be run anywhere on the globe, and even open source models that you can run locally exist.
You can have an opinion that is grounded in basis of logic or fact.
In my opinion, the sunset appears pinky/purple. The basic foundation of this opinion (which others may disagree with due to slight variations in atmospheric conditions) is still rooted in fact. Someone else may think it looks red/purple. Both are basically correct, reasonably speaking.
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
I use it all the time to write Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerApps formulas. I use it to draft and re-write e-mails. I use it to come up with ideas and brainstorm.
I just gave it the first bit and two text input fields initially and then asked it to add the remainder for me instead of hitting copy paste and changing the numbers a dozen times.
Probably saved me 5 minutes, but I do this kind of thing fairly regularly so it's probably saving me a half-hour to an hour per week on formulas alone.
This is such a common misconception, if companies never passed savings on to us, we'd be paying absolutely astronomical prices and you couldn't afford to buy anything at all.
Shirts used to be hundreds/thousands of dollars or days/weeks of your own time, a lot of people had to weave their own fabric and make their own clothes because they never earned enough money to afford to buy one pre-made since all their work went into feeding themselves. Average people didn't own more than a handful of sets of clothes up until the industrial revolution. Almost all of the benefits of automation in fabric production has all been passed down to you.
You can now pick up a t-shirt from Walmart for $5, or a dress shirt for $50 both of which are far higher quality than what used to exist.
Profit margins for most consumer goods industries are not that high usually around 50% from creation to consumer (split between the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer) and some industries are much lower even than that.
There are at least 3 different app based food delivery companies (uber eats, skip the dishes, door dash) in the city near me, on top of the fact that a lot of places have their own dedicated delivery people (Grocery stores, pizza, even liquor stores)
There's clearly a competitive market in this space.
Shirts were automated 33 years ago too. I was comparing them to pre industrial revolution clothing which was heavy and itchy.
As for Nordstrom, those are luxury goods not consumer goods. You're paying for brand names or fancy fabrics, neither of which are necessary to your life.
Homes? Why? I can't even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn't something I'm willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there's nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
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A good look at The Verge about the history of false claims made by the Silicon Valley hype machine around self-driving cars:
"In 2015, the then-lead of Google’s self-driving car project Chris Urmson said one of his goals in developing a fully driverless vehicle was to make sure that his 11-year-old son would never need a driver’s license.
"The subtext was that in five years, when Urmson’s son turned 16, self-driving cars would be so ubiquitous, and the technology would be so superior to human driving, that his teenage son would have no need nor desire to learn to drive himself.
"Well, it’s 2024, and Urmson’s son is now 20 years old. Any bets on whether he got that driver’s license?"
The equipment required to "make" a motherboard is orders of magnitude more expensive than anything you could afford.
There's a reason why it's all custom designed and there's only a handful of board manufacturers in the entire world, most laptop companies don't even have their own fabrication for these pieces, they just do the design and final assembly.
Another idiot writer missing how AI works... along with every other automation and productivity increase.
I literally automate jobs for a living.
My job isn't to eliminate the role of every staff member in a department, it's to take the headcount from 40 to 20 while having the remaining 20 be able to produce the same results. I've successfully done this dozens of times in my careers, and generative AI is now just another tool we can use to get that number down a little bit lower or more easily than we could before.
Will I be able to take a unit of 2 people down to 0 people? No, I've never seen a process where I could eliminate every human.
I've been following Doctorow for decades now (BoingBoing) and yes, he's an idiot in this situation.
I'm still working with the organizations I started automating for more than a decade ago. I'm sitting in the office of one of them right now. It's worked out great, nobody is complaining about the fact that this office space now has people at separated desks instead of crunched together like they were when I started. If it makes you feel any better, I almost exclusively do this for government and public organizations (I'm at a post-secondary education institution right now) though I really don't care.
Stopping or stalling productivity improvements is stupid, that job is effectively useless if it can be automated, it's nothing more than make-work to keep it. We should pass laws to redistribute wealth to solve that problem, not keep them in useless jobs by preventing automation.
No, I have worked with a dozen or so organizations, but I've done multiple jobs for each. I'm a freelancer.
As for your second question, I'd like to see a basic income implemented for all citizens in my country. I've talked to my local politicians about it multiple times. It's something that people now know about, which is good progress in my opinion. I don't expect it to happen soon, but hopefully we'll get there before we start to have too many social problems.
It’s stolen in the fact that these people are using Image-2-Image generative AI. That means that his original image is directly used as an input to make the resulting pictures, which then compete against his original image for attention on the internet. Fewer people will then see his original, and perhaps purchase one of his carvings.
Is it “real” theft? No Does it harm him? Yes
It’s a very tricky situation, given that there’s no way to stop it. We cannot shove this back into Pandora’s box. Even if you made it illegal, it would be almost impossible to enforce in a court because of the lack of jurisdiction across borders.
I suspect our culture is about to see a seismic shift again, I just don’t know how yet.
While there are some frustrating parts I’ve found that it gets the job done reasonably well and integrates well across the products. I’m a power user so I can often find workarounds for even the things that bother me. Teams communicates well, sharepoint stores the files for my group just fine, office does what it always does, then I get these other useful tools for forms, databases, video sharing, etc.
I think the biggest problem for most people is that they never received adequate training. I trained myself so I skipped that limitation.
More rail options sounds like it’s going to improve the game tremendously as well, definitely looking like there’ll be quite the QoL update alongside the upcoming DLC.
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
Jackson Pollock didn’t create paintings, Jackson Pollock’s art was story telling and showmanship.
Yes, in order to learn a spoken language you have to have heard it. However, languages evolve over time. You develop regional accents and dialects. All of the UK speaks English but no two towns speak the same way.
Just like different models have their own patterns of writing…
You’re thinking about LLMs like they’re equivalent to multiple people(or groups of people) but each LLM is equivalent to a single person. The training and resulting function of each one is as distinct as an individual human.
I could raise one of my children to perform the exact same functions as an LLM or art creation tool. Give them exactly the same image/text sets that these models are trained on, and have them practice for a decade or two. Then I could tell them “Hey I need a picture of an orange rabbit riding a bike” and they could draw me one, or write a story about the same topic. There’s clearly no copyright infringement in that process, so why would it be different for creating a machine to do the same thing?
You’re missing the training even a child has received to reach the state where they could do that. If you raised a child to 5 years completely by themselves in an empty room they wouldn’t be able to draw anything at all, let alone something based on pictures. The act of drawing a variation on a bunny from a picture requires they learn and practice fine motor skills, and it requires them to have an understanding of animals.
Humans get literally 150,000+ hours of training time before we even let them try to become an adult.
I lost my job to AI this week... ( www.youtube.com )
ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google ( www.brusselstimes.com )
First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes ( www.notebookcheck.net )
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries ( www.popularmechanics.com )
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
7 Days to Die is finally leaving early access, but console players will have to buy the 1.0 version again ( www.eurogamer.net )
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube ( youtube.com )
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? ( locusmag.com )
Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first time ( www.cnbc.com )
Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench ( en.ocworkbench.com )
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I want to be able to make my own Web 1.0 websites easily
And I'd like to be able to do it privately too, that'd be cool....
I’m curious about building a laptop but am getting hung up on motherboards
I’m aware of things like framework and they’re a cool system, but they’re limited in what chipsets can be used by the mother boards they offer....
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) ( pluralistic.net )
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real ( www.404media.co )
Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars ( samrome58.substack.com )
What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!...
Factorio Friday Facts #387 - Swimming in lava ( factorio.com )
More interesting ideas being brought in, I love the built-in item void of the lava....
Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy ( techcrunch.com )
Factorio Friday Facts #377 - New new rails ( factorio.com )
More rail options sounds like it’s going to improve the game tremendously as well, definitely looking like there’ll be quite the QoL update alongside the upcoming DLC.
Was Unity lying yesterday or are they lying today? ( lemmy.today )
Unity: We have to charge for every install because we only see totals. Also Unity: We can tell which install is which, so you won’t be overcharged.
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00351-3
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head ( www.theguardian.com )
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.