TheWonderfool

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Good. The possibility has always existed, but the advancements in diffusion models made creating this kind of content trivial and it should be clear that spreading around images without consent have serious consequences. Especially since a lot of times the targets are teenagers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Original Parmesan cheese is lactose free after 12 months of seasoning (good ones are generally 24-48 months). The one in the picture says 2012, so it's safe to assume that your daughter can eat the whole wheel and not be affected by the lactose intolerance at all!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Good points. There have been tests on self driving trucks, but not much more. My opinion is that the tools are not mature enough, and the industry is not willing to risk putting trucks on the road that may get stuck in the middle of the trip, because there is a roadblock and it cannot circumvent it, or that it goes on big detours because it somehow sees non-existing roadblocks.

Also there is still a problem of liability. If a truck fails to give way to an ambulance or a firefighter truck, or if it gets in an accident, who is responsible? The manufacturer in theory, unless they waive responsibility to the owner of the truck, and in that case what company would risk their face and money on a technology that has not proven itself?

All in all, at the moment I see a lot of reasons to doubt the technology, and few reasons to embrace it, unless it becomes trustworthy enough that it is economically viable.

Ps. Putting trucks on a fixed route, in a convoy, feels a lot like re-inventing the train haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree with your opinion that all this companies are illegally abusing the content freely available on the internet to train this models.

What annoyed me in the article, is that they are talking about "what jobs AI will steal" and immediately gave it abilities that it does not currently have (and I've seen it a lot of this on fear mongering type of articles). It reminded me on all the articles "truck drivers will be out of job in 3 months".

It does not find content on the Internet (Gemini, copilot, ... Is trying to give it that functionality, with hilarious results). It does not act in any way.

If you want to put it in simple terms, the current AI is a tool that reads a lot of content, and when you ask it something it gives you an answer trying to recall something and forming a coherent answer (hence all the hallucinations). It is extremely good at forming coherent answers, quite bad at giving correct answers and absolutely incapable of haveing other types of functionality (though they are trying hard to create new multi-agent tools that on paper are capable of independently searching for information, or using other tools to get the answer it needs, but it still fails a lot of times).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

"Given that ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI create their output by synthesizing what they find on the internet"

Wow that is almost, but not completely, the opposite of what it does. And given its current form, it cannot really replace much (and we don't really know how it will look in the future, or if it will be much better than how it is now).

Looking at self driving cars, how much money was thrown at the problem, and how far are we still from looking at a fully self driving car, I would say AI replacing jobs is 90% marketing and 10% substance (there are fields where it is becoming very effective, like for example machine translation).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The article is from May 19, 2022. I can find very little information about the vote of this Wednesday. While I don't doubt its authenticity, I find it unlikely that it would pass. Last time they tried, doing it much more loudly and going as far as spreading disinformation campaigns on TV and in social media, they still completely failed at having the legislation passed. To me it looks like someone is finishing their mandate, so they are scrambling to show that they are doing the work they have been paid to do (by lobbist, obviously not by the people).

I hope I will not be proven wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for doing what I was too lazy to do.

I agree that 4 random pills is the best choice, also it is not specified that you must consume them (so if you get something bad you just dump or sell it).

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (4 children)

So how long before we hear about ~~New York courtroom~~ random sketch artists getting death threats?

If I understood anything about the MAGA people is that they are fast at getting angry but slow at understanding what they should be angry about...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

This blew my European mind. Not because of the length of the road, but because it's only 7$.... Where I live highways are bloody expensive!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It will ruin you ~~back yard~~ planet

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It looks promising, even though it is quite far away from becoming available to the general public.

Still I wish that there was more of a push for something like a contraceptive pill for men. It feels like it has been ignored for years and only now they are starting a bit with development and trials...

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nice article.

I feel though that, as many others, it compares the carbon footprint of production (panels and batteries) vs the footprint of burning only. By looking at the source of the carbon footprint, it seems that they take into account only the CO2 output of the energy factories, but extraction, transportation and storage has a non-negligible carbon footprint.

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