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Why is it a bug? If other parts of the generated illustration are similarly taken from an artist, why not the signature as well? Why is a signature crossing the line but the rest of the image isn't?

With its ability to handle text, images, and potentially audio more effectively, Gemini is set to transform AI applications. Exciting times ahead for developers and businesses integrating this advanced technology!

> Downtrodden workers used to be easier to ignore. The internet is the greatest tool for organising in history.

On its face the internet seems like a powerful organisation tool, but in reality it's quite bad. These online movements are often so large and prone to in-fighting that no real leadership ever emerges, so they never figure out what their actual demands are. They're good at producing public backlash and getting brands to take down their content, but not much else.

"Beat the Freeze", a half-time show the Atlanta Braves used to put on, is pretty close. It's where a member of the crowd takes on a former collegiate sprinter in a 160m race, and they're given a five second head start.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3UzW1aJXRUw

So we agree that humans have the capacity to be evil. Presumably, it's their actions that make them evil. In that case, do you think it would be possible for an evil human to design a device that performed one of their evil actions for them, so that the device itself was also considered evil?

He's so funny :)

I think he would tweet something like "42.0% of all polls are wrong". Like a clever pun using the weed number (420) :)

Is anything evil? Or does everything just exist, and nothing more?

Is this something that could be solved by building AI code review directly into git clients? I can't help thinking Claude 3 would have caught this.

> In an email to Mashable, Apple said that its open-source language model, OpenELM, indeed used the dataset, but not in the way some may be thinking. The OpenELM project is a part of Apple's ongoing effort to benefit the broader research community. In other words, according to Apple, the OpenELM model was created for research purposes only and will not underpin any of Apple's machine learning-powered hardware or AI services, including Apple Intelligence.

I guess they're just doing research for fun then.

He was being sarcastic.

> Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to build out its AI products in Brazil, a market with more than 200 million people.

This is unfortunate, because a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI. It's important that we are all ready to hand over our data for the good of the human race. Concerns about "privacy" are secondary. History will look poorly on Brazilians for this.

> His response was simply "I never got embarrassed asking the computer any finance questions, even stupid/simple ones; I've always been the finance guy with answers so I forgot how to be humble in unexplored topics."

I think I'm the opposite. My feeling is that anything I type into ChatGPT gets stored in a database, ready to be leaked at some future date, or read by prying eyes without my knowledge. I'm more careful about what I type into it than what I say out loud in front of my friends.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid?

In Australia, it's neither. It's jool-ry.

> I just don't have any problems to solve with these tools

It's possible you're placing too much emphasis on the type of problem you need to solve. You might be trying to think of a problem that many people experience, or a problem that others recognise as important, and getting frustrated that you don't have any ideas.

If this is the case, I'd recommend making something for one person instead. Make something stupid, that only a single person in your life will enjoy. Programming doesn't have to be Amazon or Netflix. Programming can be a knitted scarf.

Have you done this yourself?

I've tried it in the past after reading a blog post about its effectiveness. I am yet to receive a response.

> Echo chambers are mostly democrat sided.

What are your thoughts on Qanon and Pizzagate?

Echo chambers exist on both sides. It's human nature to align yourself with a tribe and denounce everything that goes against it. Most people just don't have the self awareness to notice when it's happening to them.

For all the people laughing at the Vision Pro and saying it's useless, just remember that when the first iPhone came out people were saying the same thing. It's often the second or third generation of a product where it really starts to shine.

Sure.

The paper doesn't show topology, UVs or the output texture, so we're left to assume the models look something like what you'd find when using photogrammetry: triangulated blobs with highly segmented UV islands and very large textures. Fine for background elements in a 3D render, but unsuitable for use in a game engine or real-time pipeline.

In my job I've sometimes been given 3D scans and asked to include them in a game. They require extensive cleanup to become usable, if you care about visual quality and performance at all.

I'm confused why they'd take it down. I mean, isn't this what AI is supposed to do? Or is the bad thing that someone pointed it out?

Is there an option for custom ease curves, like a graph editor? I love the idea of an After Effects alternative, but if it only has a few simple ease functions to choose from I can't see myself using it much, sadly.

> It doesn't materially improve most people's lives at all.

What about all the people here who were claiming GPT-4 had become an essential part of their developer job?

They seem to have gone quiet recently, but they must still be here.

Yeah, I was expecting mention of exercise too.

> Why should AI need permission to perform the equivalent of "human looking" at content?

Why should a car need permission to perform the equivalent of "human walking" down the sidewalk? A car converts fuel into kinetic energy and uses friction to propel itself forward, just like a human does.

The thing is, we don't refer to what cars do as "walking" because the difference is very visible to us. The difference is not so visible with ML algorithms, so people keep trying to compare them to humans, when they're not.

We need a new vocabulary to describe what these ML algorithms are doing with data.

You think OpenAI, Meta or Microsoft care about those things? They've already trained on all the world's copyrighted data without asking for permission. Any hand-wringing you see from them is performative.

They also tend to rely heavily on textures for detail. When they can do clay renders with textures removed and still retain detail, I'll be impressed.

I think knowing the names of things is useful and gets unfairly maligned. It gives your mind a set of symbols with which it can make connections, which is how understanding forms. Rote memorisation of names is a precursor to understanding.

Could you really survive without trucks delivering food to stores on your city? I couldn't.

Do they need new training data? I'm pretty sure Midjourney, OpenAI etc. already scraped all of the images in existence long before the well was poisoned. They can use other methods, such as improved tagging, to improve their models.

Do you reply with this when anyone tells you their experience?

Just to clarify, is your argument that the data shows no link between depression and lifestyle factors, and that I'm an outlier, so my experience can be dismissed?