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Comment #49217282
Someone did notice, as they panicked at the cost. What didn't happen is any analysis of cost/benefit up front. Many of the corporate decisions around AI have seemed characterized b…
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Comment #49216702
My company has tried to produce an AI oriented process, and I just don't see it making sense. The basic problem is, no one on our side has actually doubted the ability of candidate…
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Comment #49215537
Technically yes, but you can clearly see the growth slow to essentially zero during part of the late Clinton years in that chart.
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Comment #49203741
Maybe after the US annexes Greenland, for some reason.
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Comment #49201900
Sure, but remember the use case being discussed is interrogation. You have a tool that can collect what someone is trying to type, but they aren't trying to type. And, my point was…
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Comment #49199513
Anime characters they clearly haven't paid for the rights to use seem popular (anime studios typically announce their partnerships). Also not a copyright violation, but using Elon …
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Comment #49191396
Remember that a lot of people have no internal monologue, and even for those that do, it's silent most of the time. They might hope to get that, but the typical case is for there t…
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Comment #49190445
The ads make money though. The cost to approve the media use and have someone quickly glance at it is going to be tiny compared to their revenue.
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Comment #49190316
The more surprising thing with YouTube is how much obvious copyright infringement is in ads. The whole platform seems oriented around copyright enforcement, but ads seem to get a p…
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Comment #49189891
Their data collection is naturally based off of people talking or typing: https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours So you'd need to force people to somehow think the same things they do …
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Comment #49189783
Most people get quite tired when talking for long periods. You can train that over a long period, but putting on a headset would certainly be more convenient.
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Comment #49187869
The most casual Google searches show results: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOvcEN1kXp0/ Including a research paper from a few years back: https://inversepainting.github.io/ Edit:…
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Comment #49186868
Unfortunately, people will truly try to fake the "paper trail". People posted sped up video of them creating art as proof they made it, so people also used AI to try to generate th…
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Comment #49186318
> I need better doorknobs and or a ramp. I'm not aware of any tech company lobbying against doorknobs or ramps, and I don't see any particular reason for them to care. There's been…
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Comment #49175697
That would clearly be superhuman intelligence, as I suspect the employees would struggle with that one.
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Comment #49172726
A lot of people at Google (and some other companies mentioned here) understood their hiring process didn't function as well as desired.
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Comment #49161708
It's not a forthcoming disruption. They've been using "AI" for various visual effects tasks for a long time already. If something is not being done using AI now, it's because the r…
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Comment #49161119
Natural response to internet stuffed full of fake humans promoting dubious supplements with potential health risks.
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Comment #49126524
The idea that people object to the removal of old structures because they're more attractive is easy to disprove. People have protested against the removal of structures that even …
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Comment #49100450
Not talking specifically to this case, but if you're loud and disruptive, you can prevent others from exercising their free speech. The meetings do need some rules.
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Comment #49090194
> In this scenario, a system administrator logs into a service as usual, but in another window is looking up basic questions about the architecture of the system—information that w…
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Comment #49075956
My current code base has more tests than runtime code. This sounds far more thorough than that. If you limit the possible productivity improvement to a small portion of total effor…
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Comment #49073173
Even ignoring financial issues, people are generally willing to talk to major groups or industries. You tend not to get re-elected if you ignore everyone.