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- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
Because he’s speaking to a British newspaper about British policies. I’m assuming the second part as I don’t subscribe to the times so cant read the article, but there is currently plans in place in the UK to introduce an opt-out framework for people to remove permission for training on their work, with pushback from big names that want to charge rent on their old works, so I assume that is the subject…
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
The bit you’re missing is that the choice isnt between killing AI and killing the music industry, its between killing AI in the UK or pissing off IP holders somewhat. Do you think china give a fuck who’s IP they use in training models, or that they will stop if the UK passes a law making artists default out of using their work as training data?
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 2 weeks ago:
I dont think his point is ‘These amazing games are what you get if you give devs tine’ but rather ‘you can only get these games from giving devs time’. Its no guaruntee by any means, but you are never going to get greatness from suits focus grouping decission and crunching out a game.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Its a godsend when you have to use Windows for whatever reason and you can have a functional OS to do things with.
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 2 weeks ago:
I hope you dont play video games or stream HD video, given that they use more electricity for less social benefit than this would.
- Comment on UK Minister accused of being too close to big tech after rise in meetings 3 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to understand what the criticism is here, minster for technology meets with tech companies too much?
Information published by the government shows that from July 2024 until December 2024 – the most recent period for which there is data – Kyle held meetings with people representing or advocating for technology companies 28 times.
Google, Amazon and Microsoft were present at five of those meetings, the data shows, while Meta attended four.
So the big tech companies were present at ~1 in 6 of the meetings with tech companies.
In August Kyle met all four of those companies, and others from the industry, to discuss AI regulation.
This year he has met AI companies several times, according to documents obtained under freedom of information rules by the website tech.eu. Those meetings include three with the US AI company Anthropic, as well as a two-day flurry of meetings in February during which he saw executives from OpenAI, the chip designer Arm, Google DeepMind, ElevenLabs and Synthesia.
Maybe I’m being naive somehow but that all reads as minister for X meets influential people in X to discuss X.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
So despite me giving my opinion that that style of posting seems (to me) to be condesending you decided to apply that same style of message, which i just said I thought was invasive, to me?
I get you think you are being nice but trying to force unearned intimacy comes off as creepy.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
And unless your are Stephan King or the like exactly how are you going to get the publishing cartel (I think they re consolidated downs to 3-4 publishers now) to change their contract to not include this? Their response will almost certainly be either “that’s non-negotiable” or “ok then you get half as much money”.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
Maybe this is a culture clash thing, but FWIW, to me your post comes across as incredibly condesending asking a total stranger about their mental helth and implying its bad like you were their close friend.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 3 weeks ago:
As much as you can hold a computer manufacturer responsible for buggy software.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 3 weeks ago:
I dont disagree with that, but you said “probably just as fascist as republicans” which is obviously not true as, again, only one party is using paramilitary violence to target unwanted groups and political opponents.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 3 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong the democratic party is shit, but I don’t recall paramilitary thugs dragging people off the streets and disappearing them under Biden or Obama.
- Comment on Lemmy seems to have an LLM issue 3 weeks ago:
That doesnt make any sense, even if people were training specifically on lemmy that has nothing to do with using them to make posts to lemmy.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 4 weeks ago:
When I did my undergrad the core modules had upwards of 400 people in them, never had a single multiple choice test in my entire degree. Thats a choice not a neccessity.
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 4 weeks ago:
He could see AI being used more immediately to address certain “low-hanging fruit,” such as checking for application completeness. “Something as trivial as that could expedite the return of feedback to the submitters based on things that need to be addressed to make the application complete,” he says. More sophisticated uses would need to be developed, tested, and proved out.
Oh no, the dystopian horror…
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 4 weeks ago:
I dont think Bill Hicks is on Lemmy.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Its a shit article with Tech crunch changing the words to get people in a flap about AI (for or against), the actual quote is
“I’d say maybe 20 percent, 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software”
“Written by software” reasonable included machine refactored code, automatically generated boilerplate and things generated by AI assistants. Through that lens 20% doesnt seem crazy.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 5 weeks ago:
Git is, but it has no process of discovery or hosting by itself. Those are needed to efficiently share open source software to large numbers of people.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 month ago:
Not really, the politicians with a Trumpian style (Johnson and Truss) came after brexit and got there because of the polarisation caused by brexit. There was definitely a lot of lying and false claims that were used by the leave campaign in order to get brexit and it shared some similarities with Trump, but it wasnt politics in the the style of being completely divorced from reality and overwhelming incompetance that defines Trump.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System 1 month ago:
10% to 80% seems like too wide a range for your range of “how many are on the largest instance” 10% means only 1 in ten users are on the largest instance and 9/10 are spread out on the rest, If anything that seems overly fragmented. On the other end 80% means 4/5 users are on the largest instance and 1/5 are shared between all other instances which is incredibly concentrated.
I’d sugest narrowing the range to 20% to 66%, 1 in 5 on the largest instance is still plenty dispersed to ensure that there is competition/variety and 2 in 3 users on the largest instance is already well into monopoly territory.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 month ago:
As per the article:
It uses high frequency radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside drones, causing them to crash or malfunction.
Its not jamming the comms, its inducing currents inside the electronics of the drone to fry them.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 month ago:
Even if it were true (which I’m pretty sure it isnt) so what? The whole benefit of free software is people can fork it and make their own version if they dont like where it is headded.
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
The vast majority of which now run fine on linux with proton.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
We also didnt understand how the internet would change the world, still went ahead with it. We didnt understand how computers would change the world, still went ahead with it, we didnt understand how the steam engine would change the world… etc etc.
No one can know how a new invention will change things, but you are not going to be able to crush human’s innate creativity and drive to try new things. Sometimes those things are going to be a net negative and that’s bad, but the alternative is to insist nothing new is tried and thats A bad and B not possible.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
People being economically displaced from innovation increasing productivity is good provided it happens at a reasonable place and there is a sufficient social saftey net to get those people back on their feet. Unfortunately those saftey nets dont exist everywhere and have been under attack (in the west) for the past 40 years.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s really a fair comparison, babies exist with images and sounds for over a year before they begin to learn language, so it would make sense that they begin to understand the world in non-linguistic terms and then apply language to that. LLMs only exist in relation to language so couldnt understand a concept separately to language, it would be like asking a person to conceptualise radio waves prior to having heard about them.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 months ago:
Probably, given that LLMs only exist in the domain of language, still interesting that they seem to have a “conceptual” systems that is commonly shared between languages.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 months ago:
Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I’ve used except to make sure I’m following the rules of grammar.
Interesting that…
Anthropic also found, among other things, that Claude “sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of universal ‘language of thought’.”
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Translations apps would be the main one for LLM tech, LLMs largely came out of google’s research into machine translation.