Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

pretty sure that microsoft recall feature is copying this startup https://www.rewind.ai/

which used to be a startup about simply recording everything that has ever happened on your computer - but now has pivoted towards record + AI

hell yeah brother

https://i.imgur.com/Is48NTC.png

All new fashion idea: what if we made baseball hats that you don't wear when playing baseball?!

what about a tactical baseball hat with space for my bullets and usb drives

a baseball cap that doesnt fly off your head when youre playing baseball

Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 years

Just as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol

— Jonathan Ross (@JonathanRoss321) May 29, 2024

my first thought was "has this person ever drank" but now I'm wondering if he's actually ever been in a social situation before

I mean you probably get a good sitcom plot outta this, you know the ones where a lady tries to flirt with a guy by pretending to know about sports or whatever, having to run out of the room every 2 minutes to get new bits of trivia from her friends, only to be foiled when she blurts out something about how Vince Wilfork used to eat 3 rocks a day

cyrano de bergerac.ai

Apparently Jonathon Ross has never heard of Cyrano, only Steve Martin.

..does this saddo really think people are incapable of having conversations with other human beings unless they are drunk? Thats really fucking sad.

Apparently he also thinks people drink alcohol so they can talk to other people. What about the people who drink as a way of avoiding human contact? Huh? What about them?

if ai earbuds can get me buzzed i may have to rethink my stance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fLn4FYWH0

theres noting that lubricates social interactions like waiting for a computer to feed you lines

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— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) May 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM

^more of a 'supposed' AI has a long way to go but still kinda interesting

https://www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

I have never been able to read more than like three paragraphs of an Ed Zitron piece, and I find it fascinating actually - I have tried to analyse why and I always come up empty. He writes in a punchy way. He sets out his thesis. I dunno what it is. Just slides off the brain.

He’s completely unreadable

That was very readable lol

But most of it is stuff that has been discussed and written about elsewhere but I enjoyed how lots of it was put together in one place.

sure was a lot in one place

So many links, so much to enjoy

I thought it was good, gets at this sense I've been having the last few years that technology is evolving faster than humans can keep up with and it's producing a bunch of junk that people don't really want

when Facebook turned into "Meta" and started doing all this VR stuff it did worry me somewhat, I mean I know everyone was dunking on it and calling it stupid but I wasn't convinced a company would just throw away a bunch of money like that if they didn't think there was something there, glad to be right on that one

i like ziltron im glad hes out there writing in an olde school blog style, and to his credit amongst the millions of opinion havers he does do some reporting like his piece on the people who ruined google hadnt really been reported like that and i think he turned up some new stuff from sources, or at least some digging like in the most recent one where he went into the declining traffic to the new sites he turns up some interesting stuff that youre not just seeing everywhere

xp actually technology has NOT been evolving. "AI" is just autocomplete that people think is God.

auto complete could be god you dont know

autocomplete couldn't really write coherent sentences though, ChatGPT can. it can do things that weren't really possible before. the degree to which the technology 'works' is debatable but I dunno it does feel like a pretty big leap to me

its just auto complete in the sense of thats how it works, its def better huge wow factor for sure, but is it good*, no, will it ever be good, idk

*mildly useful for c0ding, maybe harmful

ed zitron has some of that jon oliver energy which makes it a bit shouty and hard to read inside my head, but i support what he's doing

hes kinda like that when irl talking on pods too

one interesting and funny thing about ai being the latest tech hype object is that its wildly expensive to do the amount of money that companies are throwing at it is just not sustainable, which is crazy cause they have so much money usually they can keep their prized unprofitable startups going forever as long as they were attracting users

speaking of which i dont understand how facebook spent $50billion on the metaverse how is that possible was most of that just acquiring companies cause it cant cost that much to build a mmo where the characters dont even have legs

yeah I never got that "AI will destroy us all" argument like this stuff is fairly limited by the amount of processing power you have and also it's not really doing anything that a human couldn't

i think people are just attracted to the vision of something happening --- even if that something is the destruction of the human race. there is widespread dissatisfaction and malaise with life as it is, especially after things like the bernie and corbyn campaigns fizzled out and no one really believes social democracy will be our future anymore...

yeah the biggest beneficiary to this (and last company left standing) is nvidia

like the bro podcasts, like rogan and lex fridman, are all in on this narrative that it was humanity's destiny to "give birth" to AI, the species that will supercede us. this is a bleak destiny but at least it *is* a destiny. it's all very juvenile.

also open ai and the other tech companies like to feed into the apocalyptic narrative because it makes what they are doing seem important. the llms are definitely more useful than nfts but i doubt they will get much better than they are now. my suspicion is that there are real limits to what these programs can do.

people have been primed for ai by movies everyone is familiar with the idea of a computer who thinks most people prob consider it inevitable, its kinda like how they think if they get a gun they can kill a bad guy with it

i'm surprised it works as well as it does tbh

I read kind of an interesting take on this stuff, something like "it accidentally convinced me of the existence of the soul, because now I know what art looks like without it"

on another thread I posted a completely AI-generated Yes album someone made which makes me think of that quote. it's an impressive thing and does sound kind of legit in spots, there was at least one guy on a prog board going "no way this is AI generated, it sounds too real". but the more you listen the more squacked out you get and at a certain point you realize there's really nothing memorable about it at all. I remember certain weird details about it but none of the actual music. I don't have much of a musical background but I can improvise stuff like this in my head no problem. even Yes at their absolute shittiest still made stuff you could kind of remember, like even their worst albums have some catchy bits, AI on the other hand doesn't really seem capable of producing even that. maybe it can do it on accident, idk, but it certainly didn't do it there

iirc the meta environments barely count as mmos, i think each instance is limited to like 100 avatars. and let's not even get into the wildly insufficient child controls and hate speech moderation

maybe if AI was actually useful it could idk moderate shit for us instead of taskrabbit staff in india having to be treated for ptsd from watching endless hours of snuff and csam video JUST A THOUGHT! but no i guess being able to generate endless variations on a female inspector gadget with enormous boobs takes precedence

*quietly closes female_inspector_gadget folder*

AI’ll get you Gadget next time!

said this before on here but its interesting how ai writes in bullshitter voice and it is in fact bullshitting

iirc the meta environments barely count as mmos, i think each instance is limited to like 100 avatars.

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 11:30 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ha thats so lame

at least some digging like in the most recent one where he went into the declining traffic to the new sites he turns up some interesting stuff that youre not just seeing everywhere

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Thought that was interesting.

I quite liked the insight around the lack of tech knowledge the CEOs possess. Not only that: they are all management consultants.

zuck is an outlier in that respect

not sure about this guy

Honestly I could caption this picture all day. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more iconic image capturing the current moment. pic.twitter.com/Ftx0whWh3g

— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) June 4, 2024