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AI Isn't Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon(wired.com)
1 points by Hoasi 3y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 3y ago
Coffee capsules' business model relies on convenience to create unnecessary waste. Capsules of coffee taste worse and provide no improvement whatsoever. Why do this? Marketing creates a fake need, even though better solutions to brew
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> How is separating money from government a valid point? Money is inextricably bound up with fundamental governmental issues including a monopoly over violence and the ability to levy taxes. It looks like you've just answered your q
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Open source project brings your animated drawings to life(developers.facebook.com)
8 points by Hoasi 4y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> Not really that useful at the moment (and maybe never will be)? Yes. One of the only valid points of crypto is separating money from the government. However, its proponents emphasize obscure benefits that make it look more obtuse than
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Not at all. Those are valid questions. In some parts of Asia, those are the first questions you'll get, including your salary. You might as well get that out of the way from the start.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
This whole identity verification narrative will rapidly veer toward a dystopian social credit system where tracking of your whereabouts and spending is inescapable and accepted by everyone. But sure, let's first verify that you are a g
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Being out of date will become your edge.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> When DALL-E 2 was released, I remember reading lots of people here in HN saying it would never take the jobs of artists. Well, seems like this argument is aging badly. And yet, the more I play with these image models, the less I worry
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> people don't want to share their prompts because they don't want everyone to know how much the model carried them and how little any actual "prompt engineering" went into it. Right. Because this whole "prompt e
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A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI(economist.com)
50 points by Hoasi 4y ago|47 comments
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> That style has became ubiquitous for TED-style talks and most American non-fiction books (even technical ones). Yes, you nailed it. This trend of books built upon a single idea backed by tons of anecdotal references is like intellectua
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Starship Troopers is a great movie. It starts as every silly archetypal superhero movie but ends up being much more profound.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> An artist might club you over the head for stealing his techniques and ideas and copying them into a new portion of the cave or rock wall, others would have taught you and approved of your work. Exactly. Same back then as today. An ins
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by Hoasi 4y ago
While I appreciate your comment and the sentiment, and believe that artists whose work companies trained models on without their consent should get their rights honoured, I disagree that the art field needs any extra protection. There will
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Pretty sure they did.
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DeepMind’s CEO Helped Take AI Mainstream. Now He’s Urging Caution(time.com)
3 points by Hoasi 4y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Autocorrect on mobile did this. Pretty funny, however, and also true! The intended meaning was bots talking to each other without the need for human interaction.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> Also, different but related: seems like GPT-3 could be used to jumpstart a new forum where you don’t have a lot of users. Build up a big spreadsheet of topics, then let the AI flesh them out to seed some discussion content. Word. There
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> I mean, doesn't being a Bing feature pretty much speak for itself It does if we are being honest. But that's not taking away the immense potential of these new tools and models.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Currently, Bing has about a 3% market share. It will be interesting to see how it affects its usage in six months.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
Now that's even worse than forcing Bono on you. Alway keep a back up.
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by Hoasi 4y ago
RIP Atom. It was a great few years using it before switching back to Coda > Nova a while ago after the GitHub acquisition when it became clear development was no longer a priority. Sometimes products reach a natural end of life, but it a
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by Hoasi 4y ago
The plea for sports on the moon we didn't know we needed. It's a good departure from some of the usual ideas around Moon bases. Create a mainstream event around moon sports, fun and absurd enough to catch billions of eyeballs and
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Artificial intelligence is permeating business at last(economist.com)
3 points by Hoasi 4y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 4y ago
An original human.txt page is fun.
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Stephen Diehl: Crypto is ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’(ft.com)
23 points by Hoasi 4y ago|4 comments
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death Another great parallel would be Guy Debord's La société du spectacle , published in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Socie
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> (…) the EU just has horrific public outreach Given the number of communication agencies working with the EU and since the EU had its own communication branches, one has to wonder whether having such a low outreach is by design and why
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by Hoasi 4y ago
> This is the dumbest idea ever. Opening that conversation is laudable. > But for personal? "Never talk about how much money you make, you either make more or less than them. Either way it makes for a very awkward conversation&qu

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