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Consciousness is such a hard concept to box. I mostly attribute "mystical" thinking as the thing we do when we can't fully articulate or understand how and why something works. A c…

The first season of the tv show Westworld is a treasure trove of thought experiments exploring the value of what extending conciousness to "machines" would look like and I'm pretty…

Not that you're wrong, but I could have sworn that Marvel production was always based in the UK. Post-production is very much still in California though.

Google and xAI only allow 720p when you start adding references, and neither allow you to sync to audio. This is entirely because of deepfakes. Apparently Seedance has a version wi…

Last big social event I went to a few weeks ago, the coolers were packed with Athletic Brewing and Liquid Death along with a few off-brands of flavored sparkling water. Post pandem…

Given that Martin Scorsese is now an "advisor", I suspect BFL will continue to position itself as the research lab for filmmakers. This video model, if comparable to Seedance 2.0 w…

I would attribute any in-person cultural shift to the generation of 20-somethings trapped online during their teenage years from COVID. They are finally old enough, and have enough…

The value of an LLM is the dynamic reasoning you get out of it and the cost to execute on that. I see two forces working against this that proprietary models will always have over …

I'm pretty sure that this is both 1. an artifact of agent tools only doing generic greps based on keyword searches, limiting the scope to a few lines 2. RLHF from Anthropic and Ope…

TBF, I just recently picked up this same model, and it's reminding me of the last gen Intel i9 MBP. Just visiting any non-basic website spins up the fans and battery life isn't gre…

My only problem with generative art is 1: right now, it's basically 90% beautiful hyper-realistic woman in some scene. That is SO incredibly boring. These models are able to genera…

And of course, gpt-image-2 has over-corrected and now as of today, prompts that worked fine a couple weeks ago are now getting blocked for "sexual content". I'm seriously placing r…

Native software is incredibly difficult to build well. There are at least 4 platforms they would need to support: Win, Mac, iPhone, and Android. That's 4 different software enginee…

Turns out the browser is an incredibly sophisticated and highly performant layout engine that works on almost every platform out there. Native UI frameworks are always going to be …

It's a bit reductive to pin this on Ronald Reagan. The entire western world had been shifting towards neoliberalism as a direct response to the eastern world shifting towards commu…

Seems legit. My experiments with GLM-5.2 so far have resulted in strange hallucinations in the tiniest of places. Like a wrong variable name. It seems like it's up for the task of …

Vision decoding outside of the latent space of the model is lossy, but claude opus's vision isn't that great outside of UI screenshots. I mean it works in a pinch. At least in my t…

I know at my company our leadership was quite indifferent to how AI was adopted and really relied on the ground level engineers to determine what AI was good for and how we can bes…

That billion dollars had to come from somewhere, and it definitely didn't happen from a single individual's hard work. A lot of people were involved in that over a long period of t…

Can anyone help me understand why this particular issue is any different than Anthropic training its models with its brand of moral judgement since day one? I've always been turned…

Nano Banana Pro is still the industry standard as far as I’m concerned. I think giving a vision model spatial awareness is the next evolutionary step here, so I don’t think they’re…

Hollywood is using this tech already. Storyboarding and previs work has already fully become driven by AI tools.

The problem isn’t training data, it’s reference locking and allowing anyone to make whatever content they want.

I really do want to support artists, but I also feel super conflicted about what is actually at stake here if an AI agent generates a scene for me. I never would have hired a 3D ar…

GitHub had no reason to sell to Microsoft, they could have remained the bootstrapped company they started as, and rode the SaaS boom, since they were profitable on day 1. Seems a b…