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by ksaj 2y ago
In 1994, you would have said that about the Internet. And it was only starting to look important when Y2K came about. Then everybody got it.
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The idea that you can insert words like "Doors" and hope it uses but not knowingly bits from "The Doors" is pretty much the opposite of a figleaf. People often put things like that in their prompts, and confirmation bias
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by ksaj 2y ago
You describe it like an oxymoron: Extremely mediocre. Because it is based on a really big average. Having said that, it is exactly why training an AI on AI output results in utter crap. This has been known since before AI, so it's funn
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by ksaj 2y ago
Sure. But make the connection with the 5s. It isn't just copying that pi. It is getting there in a very non-direct route. You can do the same with 9s, for the same reason you might be picking up on if you don't trivialize that the
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by ksaj 2y ago
Spam (and porn) industries are highly opportunistic, in that they exploit every new technology, often before more productive uses are found for them. Unfortunately this is just one of many that gets treated the same way. The professionals u
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by ksaj 2y ago
It outputs a very close estimation of pi every time. The slash-* is from how HN interprets the code (poorly). Here's a corrected one using a margin: from math import sin, radians def fives(repeat: int) -> float:
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by ksaj 2y ago
There are easy examples that prove both sides. Depending on your use, the current state of AI does some amazing things. It also is being pigeonholed into areas where it is not yet ready. There are a LOT of examples out there on that. A hobb
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by ksaj 2y ago
The cost is currently offloaded to the AI providers. OpenAI is apperently burning cash like crazy, in that their revenue is far lower than their expenses. For now, during its formative years anyway. Once the initial hype is over, we will ju
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by ksaj 2y ago
We keep saying "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" while forgetting that technology only becomes good when we don't think about the technology anymore. It works like magic. How many users kn
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by ksaj 2y ago
That is a problem with Facebook, where people can tag you in images, even if you don't notice or approve it (you can opt out, but that's the opposite of what is optimal). Funny to see that come up again, but in a different context
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by ksaj 2y ago
Good call. A case that is actively in court right now, is based on a point that you can sorta remake Johnny Be Good with Sonu. However, to do so, you have to already break copyright law by feeding it copyrighted lyrics. I did their experime
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by ksaj 2y ago
This is absolutely true. Sonu is an AI music creator. Regardless of music style, I can immediately identify it. There are some very obvious (to me, anyway) musical choices it makes with both notes, and their delivery. Rick Beato (YouTube mu
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by ksaj 2y ago
This is called Fuzzing. And it is a major component of software testing. Especially in infosec, but I digress. The reasoning behind it is exactly the same.
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by ksaj 2y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This definitely applies with the current state of AI.
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Guilty as charged.
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Guitar players know this as well. A lot of pedals and DAW (digital audio workstation) plugins electronically mimic old analog hardware. Everyone claims the software version is crap, not realizing just how much of their favourite music is us
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by ksaj 2y ago
When The Weather Network first included an AI chat function, one of their sample questions was about stargazing. I asked the exact same question to see what kind of response it would give, and it said that it couldn't answer because we
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by ksaj 2y ago
They're turned off on the lingo showing up everywhere, regardless of its relevance (or lack thereof). It's similar to when the Internet first started becoming commercial, and people were revolted by terms like "information su
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by ksaj 2y ago
I don't think Canada even has testing for it. If you get symptoms of Covid (which are pretty similar) you're expected to just stay home a couple of days, and then return to work with a mask. So we've done a complete 180 in te
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by ksaj 2y ago
I'm thinking about how Trump didn't want to wear a mask because he thought he would look silly. But now he's walking around with an envelope stuck to the side of his head that is at least 10 times the size of the wound. I&#x2
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by ksaj 2y ago
To be fair, e.jpg caught me by surprise.
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I don't believe it will change the illicit importation and sale of alcohol by diplomats. There is a lot of money from that. There isn't a compound in the kingdom that doesn't have at least one contact from whom you can buy Sm
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by ksaj 2y ago
Pretty amazing that a $5 bottle of wine becomes a $40 bottle (plus tip) by the time it reaches a restaurant.
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by ksaj 2y ago
You've partly hit on why I think this way. In Zurich, you have to go to "the bad area" to see any form of nightlife whatsoever. It's in quotes, because I was warned not to go there because it is the bad area. It's a
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I've worked in both places. Zurich, at least to me, is very conservative. The nightlife is pretty dull. Munich is a whole lot more relaxed and fun. They both have pedestrian area shopping, and excellent transit. And they're both g
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I live in Toronto. It'll be cloudy that day, and rainy for the entire duration. We'll only find out about it afterward.
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I've done a fair amount of experimenting with Suno. One thing is that if you hammer away at a specific song, changing its style until you get exactly what you want, you can focus in on a particular singing or guitar style that is so co
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by ksaj 2y ago
If ever there was something akin to demonstrating the Mendella Effect, the health impact of coffee is right up there with the best of them. I remember coffee is hard on your heart and causes colon cancer, but somehow colas were not. Now we
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I'm always alarmed that there are people who intentionally eat cordyceps. I first learned about them in regards to the mind control effects they have over their zombie prey. I guess they don't infect humans, but it seems like a hu
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By definition these are continuations of the meme. If a meme stops changing and being adapted, it's no longer a meme - it's just an old image or video clip. There's nothing wrong with having an interest in the "original

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