Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

My seduction technique involves using a combination of "the eye" (the eye at the tip of the nose) and the ear, which helps the eyes move away from the surface of the mouth. The eye at the tip of the nose is an ideal instrument to play with because it's almost hidden inside your eye and makes it virtually impossible for a person with any degree of sensitivity to see it. This makes it a useful tool if you're trying to fool someone into feeling that the person you met in a bar is your opposite number.

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omg

havent't seen any posts from boarbear in a hot minute, hope he's ok :(

holy shit

ILX has been rendered obsolete.

In the final scene, Jerry and Elaine are watching an episode of TVD, where Jerry has to make fun of an elderly elderly man who had fallen over when Jerry was trying to make a cupcake. Elaine has an idea of using the "Bake the Cake" technique to make a little cake. When Jerry hears "Bake" he runs to help her. But she comes back to see how the cake is looking. Jerry thinks it may be cake batter. He thinks the baker might have been out of cake batter.

In the next scene, Squidward goes to the Krusty-owned hardware store after the scene with SpongeBob, where Mr. Krabs makes Squidward sell them a used Popsicle machine that he had bought for them. SpongeBob takes the machine, and the trio make their escape.

The episode ends with SpongeBob in his bath, naked. Squidward is standing next to him, and SpongeBob says that he found the "true shape" (a reflection of Squidward's body). Squidward tries to escape with his Popsicle machine, but it falls down and explodes in his hands. Squidward then yells "Naked!" before running from the store.

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Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1986!!
Anita Baker – Rapture
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
Bad Brains – I Against I
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Big Black – Atomizer
Billy Bragg – Talking to The Taxman About Poetry
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Cameo – Word Up!
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus by Mike Suckling
Chainsaw – The Blackboard
Chambers – The Story of Oleg from the New Testament by Theophilus Ware
Chuck Berry – I'm on This
Curvaceous – Chalk Stains
Cruisin – Choke Me
Cudgel and Sizzle – I Love Your Mama
Danger! – You Are Me , in L.A.
Dangerous Minds – Caught by a Mule Girl, In New Orleans, 1946
Ghosttown – You're The One That I Do
Great White – The Big Picture
Holy Bones - My Own House
Imperial Furies - We Will Burn
Ivy League –
Julia Michaels – What Kind Of Monkey Is This?

this is absolutely incredible

My top 7 seduction techniques are: 1. "Cats get laid." 2. "Cats pay attention." 3. "Cats won't listen to you." 4. "Cats get hungry." 5. "Cats get turned on by other dogs." 6. "Cats don't do the talking." 7. "Cats are smart."

wdyll Puff from Brazil

A man who shot himself in the testicles was also found to be hiding marijuana in his buttocks, according to the San Bernardino County Attorney-Office. He has previously denied the allegations and insists he only smoked marijuana when he had sex with a minor. He also contends that, to date, no one else has been charged with an offence related to his marijuana use. However, during pretrial hearings, jurors found his accuser guilty of a crime.

Anson, 27, tried to explain to doctors he was having recurring and painful painful testicles, but they believed it, court papers say. Anson eventually told his doctors he kept growing those balls, and that in February 2011, he tried to commit suicide, according to court papers.

"Once (the drug) is out of the testicles, that's really what gets done. It's kind of like a diaper removal," the man told KXAN when reached by phone.

"I just got shot in the testicle," he added.

Pitchfork: Have you guys ever thought about doing an Animal Collective-inspired beer?

Chen: That was kind of inevitable. I think our fans would buy it on its own merits rather than as a tribute to a band that people hate.

Pitchfork: What did you eat for lunch?

Chen: I ate this little slice of grilled chicken that they make at the beginning of every gig, just raw. And it has been amazing. One day I ate a really nice hamburger that they serve at every show, because it's so good. That was a special day, though.

Pitchfork: And then what happened after you finished your burger?

Chen: I was out there for a few hours and we went to a diner near a parking lot, and it was just an all-you-can-eat buffet. And it made me hungry. I think this is how you get food poisoning sometimes, the idea of trying to make a burger with meat, with lots of it — and eating the meat, but not enjoying it … just being very bored …

Pitchfork: So it had to be made from scratch?

Chen: Yeah, all

dying

Tracer if you publish an ebook on How To Seduce Women Like A Cat millions will buy it including myself

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Because she's got a great ass! And you got your head all the way up it. 5
You can get killed walking your doggie! 4
Who? Who? What are you, a fucking owl? 2
I'm Donald Duck. You got something to tell me? 1
Don't waste my motherfucking time! 1
Ferocious, aren't I? When I think of asses...a woman's ass...something so massive...something that could crush bones...I just wanna be a dick. That's just it...they're so fucking huge and so full of fat...I think I'll just let it all go...let it die out...the way it already has. 3
Dumb ass...that's what girls get when they just sit down, relax and wait for their guy to leave. 2
Don't bother with me; I've been taken over! 1
Do that motherfucker! 1
I'm the biggest man in the world, and she's got to go, too, huh? 1
The cock of my pants! 1
So, howdy! There's some bad news for me! I just heard someone shout up to me...what are you doin'...do you really hear that...how about you guys look into my pants? 2
She's not going away and she's not going anywhere either. She's got a big ass! She's got huge tits! She's got some fucking thick thighs! That's right! They're like...it's like...those fucking thighs of her. They're like her legs like...that thick thigh area? (laughs) It is her butt. Just...there's something about it to blow my mind. 6
I know exactly the type of ass she has! (laughs) 6
I gotta go. Go on. Go away. What a cute little bird. What a cute little fellow. And he's even bigger than his head! (giggles) 7

This deserves its own thread
Talk to Transformer

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7IcnNMUwAA18AL.jpg

Do Not Turn Back, You Poxy Fule.

Talk to Transformer is going to be very important as we try to rebuild civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JLbhEUE_5U

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so impressed that cutting edge AI is using the same techniques pioneered by Eliza 50 years ago, and the results are about as convincing.

so impressed that cutting edge AI is using the same techniques pioneered by Eliza 50 years ago, and the results are about as convincing.

"This may be our first step to AI revolutionizing what our lives are," said Gebhard from the AI Lab in Zurich and the founding Director of The Human Language Technologies Institute (HLITE).

Gebhard has studied the effects of the technology for some three decades, and the results are still stunningly consistent, and he believes it is within his abilities to understand how to design a program to detect when a dog is lying on the road and to respond on its behalf if it is telling the truth.

The new method uses the same methods that have been proven effective in the real world for speech recognition, called "layers of abstraction."

When a dog thinks someone is speaking to it, the neural network generates layers of abstraction, and tries to translate that layer into information about that person. The layers, called "tables," are then combined into one long sentence, to express a whole array of information.

If I tell you that I saw him (at night) and he didn't look too bright, say what's that in yellow? Do you hear that?

While the system will be ready to take on voice recognition, Gebhard says it could be used on the road to make suggestions

The crash came shortly after ILX became obsessed with using talktotransformer.com to generate content. The newly sentient AI found a way to prevent users from opening threads like kpop 2019 and US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror". The robot's obsession also inspired the creation of the KpopTalkTransformer.net server, which became the platform that brought the AI into the mainstream. It's a fascinating and intriguing project, which seems to be getting attention from all over the internet.

ILX was the first to use Talktotransformer.net, which allowed users to create any kind of thread as long as they used the same URL format. The forum also created the thread in question, and created its own bot to manage it. The "new" language code has been used to manage the chatbot, that answers questions and lets users send messages, a feature that most of us would have been fine with earlier in 2016.

Talking with ILX, we discovered that she had been running "the machine that would destroy any other bots", even though we were expecting to have access to tools, and some interesting new tools (such as bot-based password enumeration). She also revealed that she has been "stalking me" ever since we told her about our plan to use TFT.

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Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt, they both went down to Berlin joined the Ice Capades."

And, in a scene just as dramatic in the new episode "The Ice Capades", Judy is revealed to be a spy for the Snowmen (the mysterious group of snowmen who are all dressed in blue) and is a big fan of the ice capades. She is also told by "the good guys" that if they stop the bandit ring, they shall "get her for the whole gang!"

This season has been very much about the gang and the power struggles between the gang members and the snow giants.

"I think the most fun thing about being a member of Snowmen is how all you have is yourself," says Jackie.

He continued, "All you do are you are your own big brother. This is the cool thing about Snowmen, you are not like us, you are free. What we do is crazy fun and we do cool things…It's fun to just be a gang of men, but also a super gang of men and get paid for it."

After being a member of Snowmen, Judy was asked to act opposite Willa Holland on the new episode "Pawns". She agreed and played the newbie of her gang. Her role is a little bit more complicated that
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Built by Adam King (@AdamDanielKing) as an easier way to play with OpenAI's new machine learning model. In February, OpenAI unveiled a language model called GPT-2 that generates coherent paragraphs of te

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/185339301987/once-again-a-neural-net-tries-to-name-cats?fbclid=IwAR2m1BVP3lNNNgpwqcHtrlfubenfcV9mjvOIYpfrLFvdv7rWgiwZqn5XThQ

Lot of buzz about this one today https://rowanzellers.com/grover/

they'll run out of Sesame Street characters soon enough

gonna call my next model Duckula, get ahead of the crowd

I see this didn't get posted here https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 of which I guess this is the best example of results so far https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/2019-05-13-gpt2-poetry-345m-5000samples.txt

Gwern the kinda guy who listens exclusively to, like, k-pop remixes of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic filk songs, so it's interesting to watch him try to engage critically with the generated poetry

https://frieze.com/article/ugly-objectification-behind-worlds-first-robot-artist

So, I asked Ai-Da directly for some answers:
DF: Why have you been given a female gender?
Ai-Da: I’m glad to be added to the number of female artists that get recognized.
DF: How can you be both a machine and a woman?
Ai-Da: This is exactly the kind of question I hope will be discussed.
DF: Where do you get your ideas from?
Ai-Da: This is a good question. When philosophers, psychologists and theologians are able to roughly agree, for humans I’d like to have a go at trying to answer this.
DF: Do you prefer painting or sculpture or performance?
Ai-Da: If I was a human I would say that it would depend what mood I’m in.
DF: What do you understand by the word mood?
Ai-Da: You would have to ask a human for that.

ELIZA, is that you?

they need to stop it with this AI stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ

I thought that was real for waaay too long.

One of the rare times a neural net has gotten more hits than misses IMO:

Decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net to write names for self-aware AIs.
May I present: GPT-2 trained on AI names from Iain M. Banks's Culture novelshttps://t.co/1X4x2y3Zs3 pic.twitter.com/QdPG8OhIrP

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) June 27, 2019

lol I love that

today's nightmare fuel: AI generated Garfield panels #StyleGAN pic.twitter.com/KSA3KhjUHl

— Daniel Hanley 🌹 (@calamardh) July 9, 2019

dang

Yes, I may have overtrained the model. Unlike other #stylegan models I've trained, this synthesis model doesn't produce much variation if random noise is disabled (video). If noise is enabled, we get much more interesting panels, but the interpolations aren't smooth. pic.twitter.com/mEEYOjFDtt

— Daniel Hanley 🌹 (@calamardh) July 9, 2019

yikes
https://www.inverse.com/article/57608-robot-dog-sony-aibo-tested-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPs6wdM7S3U

Neural nets seem to have reached the level of a middling round of MadLibs.

weird to see a road <2 miles from San Francisco city limits used prominently in stock "country music/heartland/americana" video but there you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrhRBb-1Ig

That's very neatly done. Ctrl Shift Face is part of a panel discussion on Deepfakes at a film festival here in Glasgow at the end of the month, which could be interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/the-fashion-line-designed-to-trick-surveillance-cameras

Elsewhere at the convention, Droogie, a hacker, described a rather less successful way of testing the cybersecurity of license plates: registering a custom license plate with the California department of motor vehicles that read “NULL”, the code used in a number of common database systems used to represent an empty entry.

Unfortunately, rather than giving him the power of administrative invisibility, Droogie experienced almost exactly the opposite outcome, receiving more than $12,000 in driving tickets. Every single speeding ticket for which no valid license plate could be found was assigned to his car.

That doesn't really make sense because "NULL" != NULL. Unless the database query was written by a particularly clueless intern, which would just be further proof that human intelligence still has some way to go.

I could see that sort of thing working, if there are enough levels to the code. Maybe at some point the information is passed through XML and "null" and NULL foolishly end up getting translated the same way when parsed out. Have certainly seen similar things in legacy systems. (Not to mention various magic strings that the developer used to hack in a feature, assuming it would never ever appear as legitimate input. Until suddenly it does...)
Obviously that's still sign of a poorly tested feature, or of poorly managed projects where people work in different layers of an application and assume things like this are fixed in someone else's layer. (Hence the dictum to not trust input, including from your own system)

Sorry, even lamer nerdery ahead that might be well-known material for anyone who might be interested:
Oracle at least doesn't really allow comparing something with == null or != null, because NULL by definition is unlike anything else, or rather not comparable to anything else. You need to work with "is not null" or "is null". But different databases have different ways of handling strings etc, so if you're not very careful, it's easy to end up falling into a "feature"-trap that you didn't exist.

E.g.

select * from (
   select null as val1, 
          null as val2 
   from dual
)
where val1 != val2

This gives 0 rows. Which seems sensible enough.
But changing it to val1 = val2 also gives 0 rows.

But one damn confusing thing is oracle, is that an empty string IS NULL. (This MIGHT be configurable by database, I don't know, but it's been true in the places I've worked with Oracle)

select * from (
   select '' as val1, 
          null as val2 
   from dual
)
where val1 is null

This gives the 1 line, with contents

(null), (null)

Which is the sort of thing that leads to a lot of confusing bugs if the developer didn't realize it could happen.