RiverCrochet

> How will the USPTO draw a legal distinction between AI-generated and GPU-generated?

Patents and trademarks are not copyrights. The U.S. Copyright office handles copyrights, the USPTO handles the other two.

In the spirit of your question, though, the concern predates AI.

Programs that you can use a stylus to draw with - in a similar manner as pen/ink and paper - have been around a long time, and are getting better.

Let the definition of human art be human effort put into creating something. If I put "etymology of the word art" into Google I get "The word art comes from the Latin noun ars (meaning practical skill, craft, or work of art)."

If I spend an hour drawing something in a program - strokes in the same exact manner as physical paint and canvas, but digitally adjustable and editable afterward - this is still art. But it's hard to prove that from just the output file alone. It's even worse for 3d model creation - someone who painstakingly molds/creates a 3d model in Blender is definitely doing art, even if there is no physical artifact until it's printed or projected.

Perhaps art programs will need to start authenticating input devices and movement sensors and recording their stream during the artistic process, and including that as part of the output file. This will only be worse if you want to create art but not train AI. The only solution to that is not create digital art.

Too bad every command takes a full second to execute. At some point, just use Python.

So am I, as a terminal user, supposed to track file handles now?

CLI programs might be used by an actual human, not necessarily called by a script.

UNIX/Linux already has a compromise here with stdin/stdout/stderr, the convention that those are fds 0, 1, and 2, and stream redirection in shells. You can already redirect raw fds in bash on linux, that's exactly what "something > something.stdout.txt 2> something.stderr.txt" does.

Graphics bitmap data was in the ROM - it was copied directly to the TIA's graphics or playfield data registers line by line by the CPU. No intermediate copy-to-RAM needed.

You still needed a counter (index) to determine which byte in the ROM to copy over. You probably also wanted to put the graphics bitmap data at the beginning of a page (e.g. $FD00) so you would only need to increment 1 byte in the pointer and not worry about carrying over to the next byte.

The horizontal resolution was 160, and generally you were generating less than 255 lines of graphics, so tracking the X and Y position only took 2 bytes, and maybe a few other bytes for metadata.

Please check out my startup, SmartHorn. We have integrated superintelligence technology into a "Smart Shoehorn" that will collect data and provide recommendations to footwear purchasers at the point of sale. Think of it like Pocket for the shoe or boot buyer. Use to increase profits, provide discounts to loyal customers, or increase profits.

You should have added "with AI" to your question. ReactOS and WINE have been around for a long time.

Windows still is, it's just x86 and ARM took over everything. Although I think ACPI/UEFI is hooked into Windows so deeply it's required on ARM, though.

The ARM-based Surface laptop (the one that Steve Ballmer had to write off $900m worth of in the early 2010s) was running real Windows NT. I believe Microsoft's last smartphone efforts - the Windows Phone 8 or 10, was also running NT instead of CE.

only if you want water, a coffee at certain times of the day, or a sauce with no other food.

When restaurant food was cheap, tipping wasn't a big deal, especially before the trend of paying for your food first at the counter. A $10 meal and a $2 tip for a waiter/waitress that took care of you - not really bad.

Today, that same meal is $35 - $40 and wages haven't kept up for most, so not only does the tip have to increase, but people are also just eating out less. Lately it seems restaurants are closing left and right. So I think restuarant tipping as a percentage of all tipping is probably really on the decline

What's sort of come up in its place over the past few decades is the payment system asking you for a tip before you even get your food. I think there is a backlash against that, as well as tipping in non-food places. I'm seeing more and more Instagram posts about it.

> Sometimes I wish that YouTube was just 100% ads.

This is the way. Remember Bitcoin faucets? Watch an ad and get 0.000000xx BTC?

A YouTube consisting of 100% advertisements that pays viewers pennies per watched ad will turn all the time people spend doomscrolling into a positive economic engine.

There's nothing more "free market" than ads. Ads literally cost you no money (free), and you don't even have to buy the product they're advertising (freedom from market if desired). If I know I'm not going to buy the product in question, I use the time to meditate, or take a moment to enjoy a cool, crisp sip of Kool-Aid. It's delicious when prepared according to the instructions. Oh Yeah!

I don't block ads because stealing ad revenue from companies is unethical. These companies have workers who have families that they need to feed. They provide a service for free, so it's the least I can do. I watch every ad in full.

My cousin, however, stopped blocking ads on YouTube when the YouTube warnings showed up. She is scared that at some point Google would ban Gmail accounts for doing it, and she's had hers for 10 years and really relies on it. She also says YouTube videos are really easy to download so anything she really wants from YouTube she tends to have a local copy of.

Many people unfortunately completely conflate one or more of these terms to generically mean "ROM-resident code that enables a device to self-bootstrap": BIOS, UEFI, firmware, bootloader, boot ROM, boot flash, IPL, (boot) monitor, microcode

Let's do it.

1. Even correct convictions can later be found to be wrong. Death is irreversible and financially restituting someone's death can never benefit one wrongfully killed.

2. Unless death is the sentence, a sentence should not result in death. If you don't closely control and monitor when the state can do something, it increases the risk of misuse of that power by the state.

3. If cruelty and punishment really worked, crime would decrease over time, not increase.

4. The AC can be set to 75. That's not luxury but won't kill anyone with heatstroke.

Both items in scope as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with glasses and uncovered phone cameras in picture-taking position being treated the same way from a privacy violation standpoint. Maybe we can also do something about phone speakers at max volume in inappropriate places as well.

Why not? Something that can do facial recognition + location tracking + keep and instantly transmit related digital records to a third party should be considered an invasion of privacy even if in public.

> You're using rhetoric to try and change the subject -- you're making a jump from "good value" to "lack of quality", and painting them with the same brush.

Correct, I am. I apologize if I gave the impression I was debating. I will absolutely "conflate" quality with marketing and advertising when it's the only signal I have about a company and I don't have the resources to research further. For example, if I'm in a new place, out and about, and looking for somewhere to eat, and only have an hour or so, yes I'm choosing the place without AI slop ads unless I have additional information - especially if the food is generically AI generated. I'd love to have time to deeply research all businesses and companies and ignore ads entirely but that's not always practical.

Me learning of your company on Instagram or similar through an AI slop poster ad that looks exactly like the 10 preceding monster-truck-rally AI slop poster ads is a bad impression to me. From comments I've seen on similar Instagram ads, I'm not alone.

You're free to ignore signals of cheapness if you want, as well as not care about quality. If you want generic restuarant food I guess you can go to McDonalds instead of a burger place; it's all the same value to you I guess.

"AI = low effort" is becoming a heuristic regardless of the assertion's absolute accuracy. It's probably not going to die soon as long as it keeps appearing in scammy or low-margin business places.

AI-generated visuals aren't the first to go through this. I'd say the early-to-mid 90's "desktop publishing" went through this too - as soon as everyone could make ads and flyers cheaply with Word, everyone did.

AI generated visuals are becoming a signal of A) low-effort, B) and/or unwillingness or inability to spend resources to genuinely present your product or brand.

Both of these communicate that I will probably not get a good value for my money when buying your product or service.

So you're OK with your bank website being invisible until people visit in person to get the certificates?

You shouldn't be really scared until all devices follow the pattern of the iPhone (and maybe new flagship Android phones too, I'm not in that camp).

New iPhones are expensive, more than $1000. Yet most people who get them finance it through their cellular carrier, usually 2 year plans, so it's just $30-$50 tacked on to the monthly cellphone bill. So ... no one cares unless it's going to double their bill.

Let's say the RAMopocalypse and other AI-driven chip pressues drives everything up even more; let's say now-cheap TVs are now $2000 or $3000. No biggie. Your cellphone company can offer you an eSIM-locked TV with bundled network and services, on a 5 year plan with free lifetime service and replacement, adding just $30-$40 to your bill for 5 years. Maybe it will include something like Family Tracker Life360 Intercom as a value-add - talk to your children to/from the TV to/from any phone on your plan, anywhere, anytime. Safety, etc.

Same thing with your laptop, home IoT/security devices, etc.

If ATSC 3.0 dies and gives way to 5g Broadcast, it'll be another enabler for something like this.

That's when the real lock-in will happen.

was this before mmap(2)?

If DRAM gets the ability to modify itself (computations), it doesn't eliminate the cache layer between the CPU and DRAM. For the CPU to see updated DRAM values it has to bring in the DRAM to cache. Now, if that's a large amount of data, like 1MByte of computations, it's worth it, but for a couple of source/destination addresses in code, probably not. There's also the fact instruction and data caches are separate.

Now, if the RAM in the CPU cache gets computational ability as well, that all changes, but not sure really that would be better than SIMD/SEE/AVX stuff or expanding what can be done with the new tile registers Intel's rolling out.

L take. RAM is too slow for self-modifying code to be anywhere but F tier. This isn't 6502 land.

Basically, the NX bit prevents CPU behavior (speculative fetches) that had a hand in Spectre-type vulnerabilities. That's surprising because that's not its purpose. This is for ARM CPUs.

I recall joystick PEEKs being fine as long as you used port 2. Port 1 was muxed with the keyboard port and would type characters (2's and left arrows from what I remember).

Without copyright, artist B could perform artist A's original work without penalty. If artist B is better at astroturfing social media than A (maybe because they pay a firm to do it) , then B makes money and A does not.

It's fine. IPv4 addresses might get too expensive at some point, encouraging their deprecation. Or it's entirely possible having the option of IPv6 prevents IPv4 addresses from getting prohibitvely costly. Either way, IPv6 has its role.