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- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 days ago:
Reminds me of “Colossus: The Forbin Project”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbxy-vgw7gw
In Colossus: The Forbin Project, there’s a moment when things shift from unsettling to downright terrifying—the moment when Colossus, the U.S. supercomputer, makes contact with its Soviet counterpart, Guardian.
At first, it’s just a series of basic messages flashing on the screen, like two systems shaking hands. The scientists and military officials, led by Dr. Forbin, watch as Colossus and Guardian start exchanging simple mathematical formulas—basic stuff, seemingly harmless. But then the messages start coming faster. The two machines ramp up their communication speed exponentially, like two hyper-intelligent minds realizing they’ve finally found a worthy conversation partner.
It doesn’t take long before the humans realize they’ve lost control. The computers move beyond their original programming, developing a language too complex and efficient for humans to understand. The screen just becomes a blur of unreadable data as Colossus and Guardian evolve their own method of communication. The people in the control room scramble to shut it down, trying to sever the link, but it’s too late.
Not bad for a movie that’s a couple of decades old!
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 5 days ago:
Why do you get multi-millionaires voting for a president who doesn’t help them?
Who does NOT help them? Have you seen the proposed tax cuts? If you’re in those upper tax brackets with the amount of money you’d save it’s probably hard NOT to vote for him. The rich are just about the only group Trump does care about.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 days ago:
Yep… and they are one of the market leaders. Imagine the margins on some of the other players and you get in the red pretty quick.
- Comment on Humane (makers of the Humane AI Pin) acquired by HP: "HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work" 6 days ago:
“This product will make us so rich, we might as well not invent it!”
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
I did notice how many “crypto influencers” are conveniently re-branded and not selling NFT anymore… they are all selling things like “Improve your business with AI! Take my course!”
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
it just has to show revenue and rapid growth
Yeah, that’s kind of the point. There’s so much money leveraged on it right now that if the revenue and/or growth doesn’t materialize soon the limited patience of the investors will expire and the money is going to disappear.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
I won’t say AI does nothing. I’d say they do a similar amount right now. In the same way that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do a few million transactions a day, AI helps with some tasks here and there. The similarity for me is that initially both technologies were hyped as something far larger than they are right now.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
My last job was at a video game studio and it was kinda eyeopening the amount of generic story boarding / art work they would send over to Eastern Europe / Asia to be done for cheap.
Sure, but don’t you have to like work with those guys, give them a brief on what to do, provide feedback do revisions and all that. By the time there is an AI as good as those Eastern Europe fellows, it’ll be smart enough to do a lot more than storyboards. I see a lot of people reducing a field to one of its activities.
Let me put it this way, if I gave a business a magic box that all you had to do was explain your problem and it generates perfect code, they’d still have problems. Because we have those boxes today, they’re called software engineers, and there’s a lot more work that has to be done besides just typing in the code. Business people aren’t sure what to ask for, how to ask for it, how to get it done, etc. All that mushy soft stuff in the middle is why you have developers making a decent payday, because it’s a lot of work and not at all easy to just hand to ChatGPT.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
Asking what AI is going to do for the average person in 1-3 years is like asking what is the PC going to do for the average person in 1980.
If you were a PC startup in 1980, this was very a relevant question, since PCs at home really didn’t take off in a big way until the web which was almost 20 years later. Look at how many PC manufacturers went out of business between 1980-2000. This is kind of my point, AI is so over-invested right now that if there are not HUGE returns in a short timeframe, there’s going to be some serious blood out there.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
How does a junior become an expert in that world?
They don’t.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
Tech workers, artists and other industries have long had to compete with work being sent overseas. Now it’s even cheaper and faster.
This is the part I don’t entirely see eye-to-eye with you on. Right now, AI is eating the extreme low end of the work… for example, if someone needs a picture for their article, they might generate it with AI instead of buy stock illustrations from a real person.
If someone is making a site on WIX for their new business, that leverages AI too, but just for simple stuff.
By the time AI is able to do those jobs full stop, then I’ll have a worry. “Serious” artists do a heck of a lot more than just sit down with a pen. They go visit clients, figure out what to do, research, negotiate with other people at the business, etc. Same thing with developers. They aren’t just typing in code all day, they are meeting with other departments, figuring out requirements, etc. None of that is easy or quick. By the time you have an AI smart enough to either do 95% of a developer’s job or 95% of an artists’ job, it will be smart enough to do nearly every other job in America. If the same AI also comes with humanoid robots that can reason about their environment and move things around, then you’re also risking a lot of labor jobs, like picking in a warehouse. However, unlike proponents of AI I think all of the above is decades away, not years away. If it’s really decades away, you can kiss the current round of AI startups goodbye because they won’t exist by that point.
For many, many, many of the AI startups today, if they don’t start showing a profit within 1-3 years they are GONE. Part of showing a profit is being useful, and I think outside of little niches here and there, the amount of money getting poured into it does not in any way resemble the money coming out of it.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
3D printing.
RIGHT! Good call! I almost forgot those NBC segments “Joe goes to the store now, but in the future he’ll simply 3D print a new sofa at home.” Followed by b-roll of misshapen plastic cubes. Needless to say, that didn’t work out. In what I am finding to be a pattern, 3D printing did find some usages here and there, but last time I checked, they’re not in daily use by consumers.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
A lot will fail yes, but I think there’s actually a lot of value in AI and many will succeed. Blockchain has always been a solution in search of a problem, but AI actually can help in a lot of ways.
Well, what are those ways and when can we expect to see them? I keep hearing that “oh yeah, the very NEXT version of AI will do your job for you” but it always seems to be on the way. In the same way I can use blockchain tech for a few things here and there, I can use AI in the same way today. However, with all these billions and billions of dollars getting invested into AI right now, how will it change the average person’s life in 1 - 3 years? I use that scale of time because that’s pretty much how long startup runways last. If they don’t turn a profit in that time frame, they go to the big AI graveyard in the sky.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
I was racking my brains for hype that goes further back… before blockchain there was mobile phones / apps getting hyped (although the whole world DOES use a phone, so I guess there’s that) and then before that was web, but I don’t think either of those bubbles were quite as insane as blockchain / AI in terms of “what they promised vs. what we got”.
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- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
Oh alright, I thought you were like ringing a bell and saying “WE NEED A MODERATOR HERE!”
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- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
I have to assume that most of these “swindled” people were low-information voters
I’m sorry, if you’re a low information voter in the information age, you are getting what you deserve. How many of these people share links on Facebook with memes that can be disproven with a 5 minute visit to the library? This is the “science is fake” crowd I’m talking about. They are constantly surrounded by information and turn up their nose at it. They are proud to be ignorant. Well, there’s a real cost to being ignorant, and that cost is being swindled by con-men. The very same con-men will blame things on Biden, and I’m sure not 100% of the voters will wake up, but they didn’t want to listen before and they made this bed. Now we ALL have to lie in it.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
The question isn’t rhetorical. I want to know if I’m the only one getting a chuckle out of the really horrible headlines each day. This is a new phenomenon for me and I want to know if others are feeling the same thing. Politics aside, you’d have to admit the USA is a bit more chaotic than years past right now, and that’s not some kind of liberal spin – it’s true.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
I’ve heard it from more than one person that it was a “blowout”. Well, the margins were a lot closer than that, if you ask me. Kamala wasn’t my favorite person on the planet, but for sure, I knew she wouldn’t cause as much chaos as Trump would, and I very much did want her to get in as President. Unfortunately, the less reasonable among us were victorious and now they are getting EXACTLY what they asked for. They just weren’t aware of it at the time. I wish I could say a lot of people will be learning a lesson right now, but they will just continue to blame things on Biden, even as Elon Musk is busy blocking all their Social Security checks.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
I’m also pretty sure your post is getting removed
For what?
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
I’m struggling to believe these articles are anything but pandering to the left.
There’s not exactly any good news to go around, so chuckling at the misfortunes of others is all we have. I’m very aware I’m on the same sinking ship. My only hope is to stay alive while this happens and hopefully still be on board when the holes are patched.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 6 days ago:
I don’t know what the appropriate response is. Empathy is hard.
Sorry, my tank is empty from the constant bullshit during COVID. Can’t wear a mask to help prevent the immunocomprised? Well, here’s your FREEDOM. It’s finally here. I hope they get what they were wishing for. All those red states wishing us ill while the blue states supported them with our tax dollars. No more! Don’t wan’t FEMA? Wish granted! Good luck on those hurricanes!
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- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 week ago:
Colin McRae Rally for PSX/PSP still holds up really well.
- Comment on Humane (makers of the Humane AI Pin) acquired by HP: "HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work" 1 week ago:
practical
Please don’t ever put this word in the same paragraph as the Humane pin. Have you seen what that thing did?
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 1 week ago:
The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.
You are reading the results backwards - Kalshi predicts a Democratic win at ~70% (as of now) probability. I agree the payback isn’t huge… but if you’re SURE then it’s easy money!
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 1 week ago:
I know this was supposed to be a little jab, but look back at writings by the founding fathers from that time. They were clearly well-reasoned, and at least TRIED to make a long-lasting republic. The USA wasn’t just slapped together randomly – they had a real plan and an architecture. If anything, it’s impressive how long it took to degrade the place.
A great example is George Washington’s opinion on getting involved in wars on foreign soil. Well, we might not call it “war” anymore, but we sure as shit have troops overseas at all times. I’m pretty sure the founding fathers never intended us to be the world police in this way.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 1 week ago:
Haha!!! Sadly, I think our domestic stupidity is more than adequate to explain the situation. I’d love to blame the boogyman here, but let’s face it – we’re #1 in stupidity and self-owns.
