Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 30 minutes ago:
I think this is a bad faith argument because it focuses specifically on chatgpt and how much resources it uses. The article itself even goes on to say that this is actually only 1-3% of total AI use.
People don’t give a shit about chatgpt specifically. When they complain about chatgpt they are using it as a surrogate for ai in general.
And yes, the amount of electricity from ai is quite significant. iea.org/…/ai-is-set-to-drive-surging-electricity-…
It projects that electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today. AI will be the most significant driver of this increase, with electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres projected to more than quadruple by 2030.
I’m not opposed to ai, I use a lot of AI tools locally on my own PC. I’m aware of how little electricity they consume when I am just using for a few minutes a day. But the problem is when it’s being crammed into EVERYTHING, I can’t just say I’m generating a few images per day or doing 5 LLM queries. Because it’s running on 100 Google searches that I perform, every website I visit will be using it for various purposes, applications I use will be implementing it for all kinds of things, shopping sites will be generating images of every product with me in the product image. AI is popping up everywhere, and the overall picture is that yes, this is contributing significantly to electricity demand, and the vast majority of that is not for developing new drugs, it’s for stupid shit like preventing me from clicking away from Google onto the website that they sourced an answer from.
- Comment on True or false 8 hours ago:
If you are referring to large language models, no. They just create generate words that mimic natural language.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 3 days ago:
I have windows 11 and I don’t have recall enabled.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
What do you mean? Did your phone already have damage to the screen, or they were making you preemptively pay in case the screen broke?
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
I was going to opt for a battery replacement, but I called the local store that does the replacement, and they told me that it’s common for the screen to break during the battery swap process. And if they break the screen, I would be on the hook for the cost to replace it, around $160. I don’t know how that is even legal in the first place, but it certainly turned me off from wanting to let them change my battery. And mailing the phone in for a battery swap would leave me without a phone for weeks…
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 5 weeks ago:
Fracturing support for a legacy format makes so much more sense than actually supporting a modern format like JXL, right?
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 month ago:
How about water usage rates that penalize bulk consumers instead of giving them cheaper rates?
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 1 month ago:
TMNT Turtles in Time on SNES. Its a fun game and kids can button mash, and turtles are still relevant today. Puzzle games like tetris can be good for using the brain. There were a ton of puzzle games in the snes era, like bust a move (puzzle bobble), yoshi’s cookie, puyo puyo (kirby’s avalanche), and many more.
I would mostly avoid NES because it looks really dated, aside from a handful of the real classics like Super Mario Bros 1 & 3.
- Comment on Power Network Tycoon (in late early access), a power distribution company management game, releases a major update focused on the late game experience. 1 month ago:
I’ve had my eye on this for a bit, as the concept of it catches my interest. I got a little confused when I tried the demo though, so I’ve held off on it. I might give it a serious try if it ever comes out of early access.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve been using Vivaldi as my primary browser for years. It’s great, but because it’s based on chrome, ublock origin will eventually stop working on it. When that time comes, I’ll be switching to a Firefox based browser. I’ve been keeping my eye on floorp, but it’s not quite where I would like it to be yet.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 month ago:
I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 month ago:
I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.
There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.
I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 1 month ago:
It’s fun because you never know what will happen. It’s not totally random, the more skilled players will tend to win more often than not, just not every time. Also there are other game modes than just racing. Back when me and my friends played on SNES and N64, it was almost always battle mode.
- Comment on An AI analyst made 30 years of stock picks – and outperformed human investors by a ‘stunning’ degree 1 month ago:
I could care less if it beats someone on data that already happened. Let me know how it does going forward. My guess is that it won’t beat an s&p500 index fund.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 1 month ago:
It would be nice to know what brands or models are most vulnerable.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 months ago:
Nah, musk has said some stuff that you don’t come back from. There is no way Trump says “eh, he accused me of being a pedophile but it’s all good”.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 2 months ago:
I bought the first Nickelodeon game a couple months after it released, and the online was already dead, I literally couldn’t find a match. Just went ahead and got a refund on it.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 2 months ago:
It really sucked because Smash Bros is basically the only other big platform fighter on the market. Multiversus was set up to actually be a viable alternative to smash, it was massively popular at first, and they had such an amazing library of characters to pull from. The game had everything going for it. And they just blew it. So badly.
- Comment on I am disappointed in the AI discourse 2 months ago:
This is an argument of semantics more than anything. Like asking if Linux has a GUI. Are they talking about the kernel or a distro? Are some people going to be really pedantic about it? Definitely.
An LLM is a fixed blob of binary data that can take inputs, do some statistical transformations, then produce an output. ChatGPT is an entire service or ecosystem built around LLMs. Can it search the web? Well, sure, they’ve built a solution around the model to allow it to do that. However if I were to run an LLM locally on my own PC, it doesn’t necessarily have the tooling programmed around it to allow for something like that.
Now, can we expect every person to be fully up to date on the product offerings at ChatGPT? Of course not. It’s not unreasonable for someone to make a statement that an LLM doesn’t get it’s data from the Internet in realtime, because in general, they are a fixed data blob. The real crux of the matter is people understanding of what LLMs are, and whether their answers can be trusted. We continue to see examples daily of people doing really stupid stuff because they accepted an answer from chatgpt or a similar service as fact. Maybe it does have a tiny disclaimer warning against that. But then the actual marketing of these things always makes them seem far more capable than they really are, and the LLM itself can often speak in a confident manner, which can fool a lot of people if they don’t have a deep understanding of the technology and how it works.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, you could play the original Sega Genesis games, since that’s where it all started.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 2 months ago:
The chart isn’t about streaming services, but companies. So this is covering everything that is owned by Disney, which includes broadcast and cable channels in addition to Disney+, and probably Hulu and maybe even other things that I’m not even aware of.
- Comment on Game media preservation, where? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 2 months ago:
For all of the quality complaints about this anime, we have to remember that the technology is improving at a breakneck pace. What we are seeing there is the state of the technology from over a year ago. They used Stable Diffusion, which barely anyone even uses these days, because it’s been left in the dust. It was also an image generation model, which is what caused most of the issues that the anime had–the model was never designed for use on video in the first place. But now we DO have video models, which can make things that look far better than this. Just the other day, what looks to be a new state of the art anime video model was released. A new anime starting production today would look a whole lot different than this. And if we look forward 5 years from now, things are again going to be on an entirely different level.
So what does this mean for anime? I think the technology will slowly start to get adopted more and more as it proves itself. The early days of the anime industry was basically born out of cost cutting measures to make it cheap to produce animated content. Decades ago, we saw studios start producing 3d CG anime because it was cheaper. Most 3d CG anime still looks like crap, but you can also see the technology being integrated into traditionally animated shows and looking really nice. You can also find things these days which I would say barely even qualify as animation. Something like “The Way of the Househusband” is literally just a sequence of still images strung together. Yet we have more anime being produced now than ever before, and are also seeing some of the most beautiful anime ever.
I think we will continue to see some studios take whatever measures they can to produce something at a low cost. AI will continue to get integrated into more and more productions. It will eventually let them start making things that look cool, rather than things that look bad. And then we are still always going to have some studios that go all in and produce a really quality product, because the people involved are passionate about it.
- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 2 months ago:
Legend? I guess so.
- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 2 months ago:
I simply can’t understand why the hell people advertise stuff like this before it’s completed. You KNOW what’s going to happen. Just work on it quietly until it’s done, then put it out there, nothing can be done about it.
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 2 months ago:
I would disagree. I think it really improved upon the gameplay that we saw in the first TMNT arcade game. You got combo attacks with the different characters, and you could pick up various items and weapons. It also had some really huge bosses that were kind of impressive at the time, and had some mini games between stages. There were also a lot of interesting things that happened within the stages.
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 2 months ago:
I remember reading in a gaming magazine that Konami was bringing the Simpsons to the SNES. I just knew it was going to be the arcade game, and I was so hyped for months just waiting and waiting for it. And then I got Barts Nightmare.
- Comment on Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode 2 months ago:
Take the ai out of the main search results and I’m fine with it being there as a button. Oh wait, is that not what they are going to do?
- Comment on Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now 3 months ago:
Here’s the actual source: …wikimedia.org/…/Artificial_intelligence_for_edit…