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by thordenmark 3y ago
It will then have to be proved it isn't life from Earth that got there somehow, to really be that huge change for society.
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by thordenmark 3y ago
Right, you have to practically rewrite the entire response in order to make it sound like something a human would write. Then you wonder if it was even worth the effort. It is decent at pulling up research notes, which you then have to thor
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by thordenmark 3y ago
Well stated and I agree. LLM's are not anywhere near AGI and likely will not be ever. We've had random word generators for decades, useful for brainstorming, not so much for critical thinking. These LLM's are akin to random w
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by thordenmark 3y ago
That's the worst take I've read.
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by thordenmark 3y ago
SBF was the largest donor to the Democrat party. Can we rehold those elections?
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by thordenmark 3y ago
This reminds me of when Wizards of the Coast destroyed their D&D business by announcing they were cancelling the OGL. Many people had built a cottage industry around the OGL which helped to grow the player base, which in turn helped Wiz
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by thordenmark 3y ago
WordPad was the only thing worse than MS Word. So good riddance. But Windows still desperately needs an ultralight word processor that can do more than Notepad. I dread Word even opening.
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by thordenmark 3y ago
That's my profession you're talking about. Many of my colleagues are freaked out about losing their jobs, they've spent decades honing their craft. I heard one art director describe the future of professional artists as &quot
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by thordenmark 3y ago
If that is all you see you are missing most of the iceberg. The App store, airpods, apple watch, a whole host of their own apps, iphotos, and so much more. All very well executed and generating tremendous revenue. Is each one the best? Not
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by thordenmark 3y ago
That's a little pedantic. Of course all foods that aren't fresh picked and shoved into your mouth are "processed". But clearly the term as used here is processed with chemicals and fillers and preservatives and anti-caki
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by thordenmark 3y ago
Before ChatGPT came out, I used to hire 2-3 freelancers every month for different writing projects. However, I recently realized that I haven't contracted any writers since then, without even consciously making the decision. Whenever I
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by thordenmark 3y ago
It is interesting to see coders starting to express the same complaints artists had a year ago when AI image making became really, really good, by training on copyrighted art.
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by thordenmark 3y ago
But NPR is state-affiliated media. It was founded by the LBJ administration. And has always towed the government line with very little deviation from state-approved positions. Even the calls are heavily screened to not let anything remotely
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by thordenmark 4y ago
jetpens is the best. Please go there first for your stationary and writing needs. Amazon gets enough of our money.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
I played with Firefly for a few hours and was quite unimpressed with the results. It reminds me of Midjourney 2.0, which was kind of impressive a year ago. Adobe has a lot of catching up to do.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Every engineering team I've worked with virtually every engineer complains about technical debt - regardless of how much time is allocated to manage it. I'm not suggesting it isn't important to take care of it, just that some
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by thordenmark 4y ago
It is the same old story of incremental progress in increasing a worker's productivity. Like how much more work a farmer can do with a tractor than with an oxen and plow.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Good description, this has been my experience using it. It generates a lot of mid to low quality content, with the occasional flash of something brilliant, rapidly which requires a lot of editing and work to turn it into something useable.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Yes! And Jim Sachs was responsible for that fantastic aquarium screensaver that was on every PC in the 90's. I think he did quite well from it.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
The quality of an illustration is almost always a reflection of the quality of the reference the artist gathered.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
I briefly worked for the resurrected Cinemaware in the 90's. I was drawn in by the amazing art from the original Cinemaware games. It was one of the worst productions I've ever experienced and it was clear from early on that the r
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Not really. We each see the world according to our own lens.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
"JACKUP up prices..." Price fluctuation is standard with virtually every product ever made. Prices rise and fall based on market circumstances. One day cables might cost more, another day the price of aluminium might go down. Last
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by thordenmark 4y ago
There is nothing about the OGL that makes it so Wizards can never revoke it. The license states that WotC grants the licensee "a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license" to use the SRD (system reference document:
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by thordenmark 4y ago
He thinks he's being funny, and his opponents and critics have no humor.
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by thordenmark 4y ago
It seems that at the current velocity of improvement it is only a matter of time - very near future - that those problems will be mostly worked out. ChatGPT already outperforms Google search in many ways. For example I was doing some resear
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by thordenmark 4y ago
In stressful situations my mind enters a calm place knowing that panic would be the worst thing to do at that moment. The only time this was not true was when my wife went into labor with our first child and I had to drive her to the hospit
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by thordenmark 4y ago
You are demonstrating that lack of empathy. Artist's works are being stolen and used to train AI, that then produces work that will affect that artist's career. The advancement of this tech in the past 6 months, if it maintains th
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Tesla cars are sold on the value as they are now. The potential features of the future are only an interesting possibility. It's not that different from any hardware/software on the market. Sure, Photoshop might have full self-dri
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by thordenmark 4y ago
I frequently cross the Golden Gate bridge. This is my nightmare. Can you imagine plunging to your doom if that bridge failed? Yikes!

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