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It's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pag…

For those in the Seattle area, the Seattle Public Library has an excellent periodicals collection, including what appears to be a complete collection of BYTE, bound into volumes (a…

I feel like it was inevitable that it would become slop. The models are impressive, but they can really only get you 80% there. If you want a video of a dancing cat, sure, you can …

Even if that were true, the little quirks of private large scale video models would be different than the public cheap ones. If anything, it would just give the public a false sens…

You can feel that way if you want, but to answer the confusion you posed in your initial post, most people do consider all aspects of a technology rather than just focus on the tec…

I loved Fry's in their prime, probably the early 2000s. I think what made them special was largely a product of the time. Personal Computing was booming and new products you'd neve…

I feel like this move is premature and playing directly into Trump's hands. "See how Europe flinched at even the suggestion of free speech, we haven't even started yet" Surely what…

I don't mean to be dramatic or personal, but I'm just going to be honest. I have friends who have been bloodied and now bear scars because of bigoted, hateful people. I knew people…

Every social justice type I know is staunchly against AI personhood (and in general), and they aren't inconsistent either - their ideology is strongly based on liberty and dignity …

No, it's a computer program that was told to do things that simulate what a human would do if it's feelings were hurt. It's not more a human than an Aibo is a dog.

Insomuch as that's true, the individual agent is not the real artifact, the artifact is the model. The agent us just an instance of the model, with minor adjustments. Turning off a…

I would hope I don't have to point out the massive ethical gulf between cows and the kinds of people that CoC is designed to protect. One can have different rules and expectations …

The obvious difference is that all those things described in the CoC are people - actual human beings with complex lives, and against whom discrimination can be a real burden, emot…

IIRC it just outputs video as a composite signal over RCA, so any TV with composite inputs (yellow/red/white) should be able to display it. Those are getting rarer I suppose but ar…

I wonder why nobody wants to use my pretty theft machine? I mean, it steals all their work and spits out copies that are almost as good, and almost for free! Why aren't these artis…

It seems like Rubio has chosen to futz endlessly with fonts rather than follow the established style guide.

To be extra clear for others, keep watching until about the middle of the video where he shows clips from the YouTube videos

A good argument for making sure our planet stays habitable. Caring about the environment isn't just for hippies anymore!

Did Sam Altman lead a government agency and camp in the Oval Office for months too? Degrees matter.

Okay, but I think we can all agree that humans at least appear to have free will and do not simply follow instructions with the same obedience as an LLM.

But would they? That's the difference. A human can exert their free will and do what they feel regardless of the instructions. The AI bot acting out a scene will do whatever you te…

Lots of youtubers with Patreons do have tiered credits, with bigger doners having separate credit sections with fancier titles, and usually their names are bigger and/or stay on th…

Which is exactly why strategies like UBI are so important. Eventually the average American with no specialized skill will find that they cannot produce value when competing on a gl…

>> And if you found out accidentally that you find their beliefs unsavoury (say, they like abortion whilst you don’t, whatever) would you not sit with them? Yes; if I find out that…

It depends on where the money changes hands, IMO (which is basically what I think youre getting at). If you pay someone to perfectly recite a copywrited work (as you pay ChatGPT to…