Today that’s true, but a year ago it had trouble writing a paragraph.
I am not sure they have to reach AGI to replace almost everyone. The amount of investment in them is now higher than it has ever been. Things are, and honestly have been, going quick. No, they are not as advanced as some people make them out to be, but I also don’t think the next steps are as nebulously difficult as some want to believe. But I would love it if you save this comment and come back in 5 years and laugh at me, I will probably be pretty relieved as well
I read an article once about how when humans hear that someone has died, the first thing they try and do is come up with a reason that whatever befell the deceased would not happen to them. Some of the time there was a logical reason, some of the time there's not, but either way the person would latch onto the reason to believe they were safe. I think we're seeing the same thing here with AI. People are seeing a small percentage of people lose their job, with a technology that 95% of the world or more didn't believe was possible a couple years ago, and they're searching for reasons to believe that they're going to be fine, and then latching onto them.
I worked at a newspaper when the internet was growing. I saw the same thing with the entire organization. So much of the staff believed the internet was a fad. This belief did not work out for them. They were a giant, and they were gone within 10 years. I'm not saying we aren't in an AI bubble now, but, there are now several orders of magnitude more money in the internet now than there was during the Dot Com bubble, just because it's a bubble doesn't mean it wont eventually consume everything.
While I do not think they were in the right to have the users “unmasked”, my understanding is that the users in question were talking about how the Austin internet provider, Grande, was good for torrenting, so the attempt to unmask the users wasn’t meant to get the users in trouble but to show that Grande benefitted financially from a lax policy towards pirating, so them not mentioning piracy in their comments wasn’t necessarily the end of the conversation, if they were willing to say now that it was in reference to piracy. I do think it sounds like grasping at straws, but I imagine the potential value they were hoping to get from Grande was worth that grasping to them
The FTC has had a spine since 2020, they have been really busy - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases
The FTC has actually been crazy busy this administration - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases - they're really doing far more than at any other point in my lifetime.
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While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
As someone that’s used it for work, I don’t find it very different than the Lemmy UI at all
How is this posted in the future?
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"a purple monster sits on top of a bike, in the style of neo-geo, atmospheric effects, trompe-l'œil illusionistic detail, dark & explosive, contained chaos, master of shadows, dynamic action sequences --ar 3:4"
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Prompt was "Monsters ad mini succulent pots, in the style of craig mccracken, harmony with nature, greg simkins, 3d, # vfxfriday, john lurie, whimsical, lighthearted atmosphere"
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Prompt was > A homemade giraffe made from yarn and cardboard, in the style of brandon mably, light white and orange, tom everhart, cobra, infinity nets, petcore, humble charm
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Prompt "tree painting inspired canvas wall art in purple, in the style of dark green and amber, brightly colored graffiti-esque, participatory art, found object installations, yombe art, realistic still life paintings, colorful chaos"
Has pretty great performance nowadays too. I’ve seen benchmarks showing it performing 3x faster on web stuff than python (obviously there are faster choices than either and Python works well with a lot of non web stuff that PHP can’t do well) - PHP deservedly earned it’s bad rap, but they have really turned things around and now I love using it.
At 22 upvotes your beans now weigh the amount of a small car.
Probably posting beans on squabbles
Extremely diverse
"They're going to need a bigger datacenter" Is something I wish I could say
I'm a former smoker, so, I might not count, but if I do - no. Quitting smoking was the hardest addiction I ever managed to stop. If a friend wants my advice on stopping, I'll give it to them, but, I know how hard it is to stop, and for most people the pain of going through stopping just isn't worth it. Anyone who smokes for long enough with other smokers knows that there is no shortage of people who are embarrassed by the addiction, and worry about being looked down on by others. Making judgements on others for consequences of a choice they made when they were most likely a kid is just not something I want to be a part of.
I haven't smoked in 15 years, and I still have times where I miss it. Hell, I have a dream about once a month where I take up smoking again. I am really glad I stopped, but, I really got super lucky by what was going on in my life when I successfully quit, I had the support of friends and family, and everything was going right for me at that time. Had things not gone "just right" for several months in a row I am pretty sure I would have convinced myself to go to a gas station and torch all of that progress.
That was my favorite part about it! unfortunately while it did help me work, I ended up working on a bazillion different things at once and had a hard time finishing anything, so I had to go back to focalin. My niece however swears by it.