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Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs–and They’re Celebrating(wired.com)
2 points by Hoasi 3y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Good things don't last.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Colour me surprised. How are carbon offset credits different from Catholic Church's indulgences?
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Adobe has been famous for this annoying behavior for over a decade. Remove some cool features only to reintroduce them, sometimes years later, as a breakthrough. Annoying, but it didn't prevent them from quietly innovating.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
They could send over ChatGPTed newsletters. Marketing bullshit is one thing ChatGPT excels at.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Exactly. It's a time-saver for bureaucratic chores. And that's great. There is no need to strive for excellence when mediocrity is required. Useless for anything that requires originality, elaborate humor, or finesse.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> said by someone who uses chatgpt extensively, it is good for the structure, to get an idea, but as a code generator it kinda sucks. Interestingly, the same applies to text-to-image programs. Once you used these for a while, you realize
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The sceptical case on generative AI(ft.com)
1 points by Hoasi 3y ago|1 comments
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Bing market share is stagnant despite multi-billion-dollar investment by MSFT(windowscentral.com)
1 points by Hoasi 3y ago|1 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Bing has about a 3% market share today, just as it did before adding ChatGPT to its search more than six months ago. It has since disabled ChatGPT “out of an abundance of caution” in July, while Bing Chat still uses GPT-4.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
We can't all agree on what best means. It can't be objective since we are humans. HN guidelines and moderation are doing a decent job of promoting interestingness in general. I don't think upvotes are a reliable indicator, bu
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> but it's embarrassingly easy to train the AI on interesting or not content based on upvote information... And yet, the best topics and answers do not necessarily correlate with the most upvoted.
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AI models are powerful, but are they biologically plausible?(news.mit.edu)
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> However, I have no explanation for NFTs. Simple. A multi-level-marketing scheme build on the free money/web3/crypto trend, successfully taking the existing art market speculative practices into the digital realm.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (The Myth of the Objective) by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman was excellent.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> It makes me think of something Brandon Sanderson wrote that has been bouncing around in my head a lot lately: "Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Already avoided the news for some years, the Covid era put the nail in that coffin for good.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Long-distance travel by train is a luxury compared to the car. Traveling by train, you can work, eat, read, watch a movie, and socialize.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> I've just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven't even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay
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by Hoasi 3y ago
He's a singer-songwriter though not a virtuoso guitarist.
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“ There will be NO programmers in 5 years.” – EMostaque(twitter.com)
2 points by Hoasi 3y ago|6 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> Also, taking Elon's word at face value for a second... is Twitter really worth scraping for AI training or whatever? Maybe... if you build a LLM scrapping for the lulz?
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Their No Bullshit days are over for good. Thank you, and goodbye, Gandi!
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AI is not yet killing jobs(economist.com)
2 points by Hoasi 3y ago|1 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> Whose idea was it to have oil on canvas in black and white, for whatever purpose (flashbacks - whatever)? Budget, most likely.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
It's all about the story. Does the style used serves the story? It would be much simpler to experiment with such a film about Van Gogh today with the help of machine learning. But the story has to live up to the visuals. Art and stor
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by Hoasi 3y ago
A joke. And a seminal piece of art. There is also a controversy with that piece by Duchamps; there is some evidence it was by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
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Dear Artists: Do Not Fear AI Image Generators(wired.com)
2 points by Hoasi 3y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
> That feels optimistic. Sure, but nobody will remember someone said that seven years before. They might be hiring by that point, too.
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Not that helpful. It's a bit akin to being able to tell which individual letters are in a word spoken. It might make some genres of music less enjoyable as they sound too predictable. It does help to play improvisation with other mus

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