Such wonderful, terrible things.

/stares in smart glasses

I am legion.

At this point, you're a towel.

WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018.

The format has spotty support across applications and some vulnerabilities were discovered that required patch efforts last year. It's not clear why you should do anything.

Y'all run out of Confederate flags AND No Step on Snek flags?

The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet!

I'll have my AI agents talk to your AI agents.

Musta entered the forbidden numbers. 80085

Is Reddit pretty much the same? From my limited perspective, a lot of the genuine contributors left, quietly or otherwise. I've found it much more difficult to have an interesting discussion on there since the API debacle. Most of Reddit was already lurkers and bots, so all it took was a significant proportion of the tiny minority of quality contributors to take their time elsewhere for reddit to become a complete dumpster fire.

Women's birth control hasn't exactly been side-effect-free, what with the strokes. But also, sauce?

This fuckin country, man.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

On the other hand, the human participant scored 67 percent, while GPT-3.5 scored 50 percent, and ELIZA, which was pre-programmed with responses and didn’t have an LLM to power it, was judged to be human just 22 percent of the time.

54% - 67% is the current gap, not 54 to 100.

Alright, Courtney, no need to shit on his grave.

Wikipedia got where it is today by providing accurate information. Google results have always been full of inaccurate information. Sorting through the links for respectable sources just became second nature, then we learned to scroll past ads to start sorting through links. The real issue with misinformation from an AI is that people treat it like it should be some infallible Oracle - a point of view only half-discouraged by marketing with a few warnings about hallucinations. LLMs are amazing, they're just not infallible. Just like you'd check a Wikipedia source if it seemed suspect, you shouldn't trust LLM outputs uncritically. /shrug

Public healthcare, public education, public internet

I've consulted the oracles, and we're going with 2006.

Right, A.I. Aboriginal Illustrator.

I don't have numbers, but I did. Took Redact 9 hours to overwrite & delete the 17,000 comments on my 17-year-old account. But watching them scroll by, most weren't really worth keeping. I saw several 15+ year-old active accounts do the same before I left.

It turns out gen AI is good at training virtual robots, which can then be embodied in robots like this guy. There's a $16,000 Chinese version of that robot that's a bit smaller. There's a robot dog that GPT4 trained to balance on a beach ball, and the NVIDIA pen twirling training. I guess what I'm saying is... robots exist.

The papers have a ton of practical info about feasibility, implementation, etc.

A.I. is likely going to change the world as much as the printing press (at the very least, and possibly as much as the industrial revolution). I wouldn't call it a nothing fad. It is definitely shaking up my career (video production) already. And at least from my point of view, becoming a creative generalist is the best way to adapt. Work is going to become more about knowing a little to moderate amount about a whole lot of things, so that you can effectively orchestrate a hierarchy of AI agents. Deep specialization increasingly carries too much risk, and the A.I. are much better at some aspects of it than we typically are.

I literally read it to mean they're starting to run out of women and children to kill.

But for real, if you want to know the state of AI, go to Hugging Face.

Okay.

What's the deal with phones auto-correcting to unusual proper nouns? Why is that even an option, if it's literally a word I've never typed/swiped?

Everything moves faster in AI. Open AI's already moved on to their regulatory capture phase, so unholy pacts are a given.

Australian Imagineer?

Actually, I'll be a cyborg, but you do you.

Rabbit season

LA DE DA

It saves me 10-20 hours of work every week as a corpo video producer, and I use that time to experiment with AI - which has allowed our small team to produce work that would be completely outside our resources otherwise. Without a single additional breakthrough, we'd be finding novel ways to be productive with the current form of generative AI for decades. I understand the desire to temper expectations, and I agree that companies and providers are not handling this well at all. But the tech is already solid. It's just being misused more often than it's being wielded well.

As long as no one messes with their open source contributions... (ditto for MS)

As long as the footage is still accessible, sounds great to me!

I'm not exactly sure why Nog is appropriate here, but he is.

Perplexity

Participants only said other humans were human 67% of the time.

That's for its own benefit. It has to talk through it (or alternatively code through it) to work out the answer. S'just showing its work.

Through the API - well, it was through the API before they changed it. No idea if that's possible now.