Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

something running 8 hours a day for 365 days, or 7 million things in this case.

but, yes, if that's a year's total for them too then the length of time is redundant

"7 million laptops" is also a weird choice, but I let that one slide

also the servers won't be running only 8 hours a day so you've just multiplied the number of laptops by 3, effectively. something is missing from the logic there.

so let me get this straight, no-one wants ai, no-one wants the planet to burn, and were ramping up fossil fuels to power ai? fucking awesome.

also smdh at microsoft claiming they can make fusion work in four years, why don't they just build a load of solar farms ffs.

read a good one recently, “ai is whatever doesn’t work yet”

I believe they mean it's 7 million laptops times 8 hours per day in energy

so if they're running the compute stuff in the data center 24/7, they're using 1/3 as much energy per hour as you'd get from running 7 million laptops. presumably they're trying to draw a comparison to people who use a laptop for work and then shut it down at the end of the work day

i personally run seven million laptops eight hours a day just to cover my web browsing needs

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That's right

Siri, demand to speak to the manager

― papal hotwife (milo z)

i spent five years on estrogen so i could become a middle-aged white lady and fuckin' computers are even taking _that_ away from me

DC is canceling covers by an artist who got busted using AI (not busted by DC, who must barely glance at the artwork)

This is amusingly sweary, if also despairing.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

A pretty deep dive into how AI is already used by one terrible company
https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

there have got to be so many AdVons out there

We'll see but its true. This stuff needs a return.

A colleague of mine works in digital training and he mentioned 'Oh we're dropping AI voices'

When I asked why:

'Their prices keep going up, they want so much money for so few voices, they must be getting desperate. We can hire an actor for the same price' pic.twitter.com/p3CjBMqBWT

— Chris Sharpes (@chrissharpesVO) June 25, 2024

Obv its also keeping wages down too

Thank you for the sweary blog, which cuts a little close to the nerve sometimes....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8pMkOWOUiL/

B-but its going to solve physics.

Sam Altman says the day is approaching when we can ask an AI model to solve all of physics and it can actually do that pic.twitter.com/zExwozzlhY

— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) June 26, 2024

Aside from the fact that no it isn't going to solve all of physics, there's an extraordinary rhetorical sleight of hand in there. What is the future going to look like "even if we solve every safety / misuse / regulatory problem"? No! What is the world going to look like if we *don't* do that (because we can't and won't!)

All it can do is summarize physics textbooks.

Wow... Just tested the new keyframe update from Luma. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/TIIQQ9gyVz

— Proper (@ProperPrompter) June 28, 2024

lock thread?

Gift article about the collapse of a company that failed to design an AI chatbot for the LA school system. A telling portion intimates that the company’s founder kept referring to work she had done with a lab at Harvard… but which was actually a brief association as an undergraduate and then extension student. AI is just big grift afaic

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/ai-chatbot-los-angeles-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.300.J-uf.4ZtU36zvm3Zr&smid=url-share

Kurzweil seems to be a sober advocate for what's going on at the moment. But then he quotes Musk so that's where it first gets suspicious, even before the immortality stuff..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/29/ray-kurzweil-google-ai-the-singularity-is-nearer

Kurzweil is a big credulous dickhead.

Hand crib:

If Musk says something is happening now, it won't be seen for a decade or more.

If Musk says something is a year away, it's unlikely to be seen in our lifetimes

If Musk says something is two years away or more, it's a physical impossibility

Handy, jesus

, your own

I just looked up Kurzweil a few days ago to see where he was at on prophecies of the Singularity. Apparently we’ve got ‘til 2040 to enjoy our meat bodies.

Cool keyboards tho

Alberto Carvalho, the current head of L.A. Unified, is a piece of shit who was imported from Miami. I’m glad he ended up with egg on his face

Even loveable paranoic Douglas Rushkoff thinks “AI” is snake oil bullshit

Kurzweil is a big credulous dickhead.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 1 July 2024 bookmarkflaglink

These guys are really creepy

Kurzweil says some things that seem plausible and some that seem way too optimistic. Its a mix of useful and garbage.

Sora’s current output and its inevitable evolution in the next year makes me very worried for people in the VFX, animation, and gaming fields

until you can actually give it notes dont think theres much to worry about except maybe on the extreme low end

I’m not so sure. Based on stuff like this, we’re probably a year away from creating approximations of the original cuts of The Red Badge of Courage and The Magnificent Ambersons

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/Oyex6mwf9Z

naw

AI fans crossing over with people who never read another book after Harry Potter seems appropriate.

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models pic.twitter.com/cOhmUJjI2m

— Deedy (@deedydas) July 2, 2024

such a beautiful sport

i dont really understand whats new/improved about that harry potter vid compared to what people were doing a year ago like those weird c3po star wars vids

AI can now create images via reading your brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2438107-mind-reading-ai-recreates-what-youre-looking-at-with-amazing-accuracy/

https://i.imgur.com/6Mvw9j8.png

most of this ai generated video will probably be an extension of the terrible stories we've all become accusmtoed to via cgi movies - with the exception of Breen of course

i dunno, this is pretty impressive if you ask me

This is pretty stunning AI spaghetti art...

Like modern/abstract art, AI art will be a thing, and creative pieces will be displayed in museums.

I can't wait for AI song to win a Grammy pic.twitter.com/n6vIjlMtEa

— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) July 2, 2024

sorry, but the spaghetti didn't have the right number of fingers so i'm going to completely dismiss it

but does it display the right number of spaghetti strands? can AI finally demonstrate spaghetti-permanence?