Hi. I like computers.
I also like cats. Cats are cool.
It's probably related to the fact that it seems a lot of Lemmy users are in tech, rather than art.
I think generative AI is a great tool, but a lot of people who don't understand how it works either overestimate (it can do everything and it's so smart!!) or underestimate it (all it does is steal my work!!)
He featured in a documentary recently. Neat watch.
Now that's a satisfying couple of charts!
Personally, I'm a comp sci graduate who did several courses exploring AI, but I actually started out in fine arts and continue to paint, write, and play music to this day. I'm sure I'll be blending these studies in some way when I move on to my master's.
I agree that automation is scary. It's unregulated. But it's not the tech so much that's evil, but rather the employers who see it as a reason to get rid of employees. And before, it'd be manual labour that we replaced with machines. People doing mental labour thought they were immune, until now they're not. Our economic system's going to need to change in some way.
But generative AI can be very good even for artists. For example, sometimes I suffer from writer's block (who doesn't?). Now, I can feed what I'm working on into chatGPT and have it spit out an example of the next paragraph. Sometimes that's enough to spur me on so I can write the next page.
Artist movements in general are pretty conservative. When digital painting first became a thing, allowing people use layers and filters so easily, the kneejerk reaction by artists was to consider it cheating.
My hope is that in an ideal world, human-made art becomes valuable in the future precisely because it has the human touch. Live music played on real instruments, paintings on canvas, the sorts of things with quirks and imperfections and a human element that can't be mass produced. Let the corporations have their algorithmic, soulless advertisements, and let the people focus on true self expression.
But then for people without artistic talent, say those who want to make indie games but can't hire an artist or a musician because they're just some kid with a dream and little experience? Hell, why not let them generate some assets with AI?
But we need to make sure that people aren't afraid of becoming homeless, starving on the streets. I think, we're not getting rid of AI at this point, it's too powerful, and I don't have an answer to our societal problems. For better or worse, we'll adapt.
Just tried it. "An oonique"... Sounds fancy.
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Mint user here, did the switch years ago and never came back. Steam with Proton makes gaming easy, and for games not on Steam, you can look at Lutris (played WoW like that with no problems).
My only experience with AI is tensorflow, but interfacing with Nvidia cards is easier on Linux than Windows, since I ended up needing to use WSL anyway.
The only browser stuff that might get annoying is Pearson exams, if you ever need to do any. They really don't like Linux users.
Corpos love opt-out because it lets them take advantage of people who don't consent but maybe weren't paying attention to or understanding the option right at the moment, esp if deceptive design is used.
Edit: and judging by the stupid formatting of that poll, I don't think I trust them not to use deceptive design to confuse people lmao.
12 and 60 divide nicely. A quarter of a 12-hour clock is 3 hours, but in decimal time it'd be 2.5 hours. A third is 4 hours in base 12, but some gross 3.33 repeating in decimal.
I just don't like it.
Small hands. My Pixel 4a is as big as I'll go at 5.8", as I can reach the other side of the phone with my thumb to type one-handed.
I think the benefit of having metric in base 10 rather than 12 is that it matches our numeric base system.
123mm is 12.3cm and 1.23dm and 0.123m.
Converting things in base 12 would be a bit more work, not sure it'd be worth it.
We're not really going around converting time very often.
But, if you have an answer that actually, genuinely proves that this “neural” network is operating similarly to how the human brain does… then you have invalidated your original post. Because if it really is thinking like a human, NO ONE should own it.
I think this is a neat point.
The human brain is very complex. The neural networks trained on computers right now are more like collections of neurons grown together in a petri dish, rather than a full human brain. They serve one function, say, recognizing or generating an image or calculating some probability or deciding on what the next word should be in a sequence. While the brain is a huge internetwork of these smaller, more specialized neural networks.
No, neural networks don't have a database and they don't do stats. They're trained through trial and error, not aggregation. The way they work is explicitly based on a mathematical model of a biological neuron.
And when an AI is developed that's advanced enough to rival the actual human brain, then yeah, the AI rights question becomes a real thing. We're not there yet, though. Still just matter in petri dishes. That's a whole other controversial argument.
Ugh you're right. I admit I've scrolled through AITA more often than I should, because something about it is really entertaining.
But it's like junk food, I don't really feel good when I'm done with it. More vindictive, like those revenge subs. Being off Reddit has reduced how much I see it, and I don't particularly want to go back to that.