Grimy
@Grimy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
What are you even on about? Each time I see your username, it’s always just the worst take possible.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 weeks ago:
It’s 400 hours of audio, the transcripts ended up being 5 million words, and only snippets of it are useful.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 weeks ago:
These important limitations highlight why it’s still important to have humans involved in the analysis process here. The NYT notes that, after querying its LLMs to help identify “topics of interest” and “recurring themes,” its reporters “then manually reviewed each passage and used our own judgment to determine the meaning and relevance of each clip… Every quote and video clip from the meetings in this article was checked against the original recording to ensure it was accurate, correctly represented the speaker’s meaning and fairly represented the context in which it was said.”
It’s literally the paragraph right after.
They verify it.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 weeks ago:
I was actually thinking of setting up something similar for the mountain of ufo related docs they keep dropping every few months. They tend to use obscure words and even slip in typos so just searching through them doesn’t work very well.
- Comment on Supercomputer firm ParTec sues Nvidia in UPC, seeks 18-country patent injunction against AI chip giant; previously sued Microsoft in U.S. 3 weeks ago:
publicly-traded German high-performance computing (HPC) firm ParTec AG, whose CEO Bernhard Frohwitter has considerable expertise in patent monetization.
“Patent monetization” is an interesting way to put it.
As a side note, I love how the article is structured.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 3 weeks ago:
Whispers been known to hallucinate during long moments of silence. Most of their examples though are most likely due to bad audio quality.
I use whisper quite a bit and it will fumble a word here or there but never to the extent that is being shown in the article.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
You would need a pretty good thickness of water and it becomes complicated shipping it up into space.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
“I’m usually turning around and stopping the operation to see a CT scan; looking to see what happened with the endoscopy [another small camera that provides a closer look at organs]; looking at the monitor for the heart rate,” Horgan says.
Horgan says that wearing headsets during surgeries has improved his effectiveness while lowering his risk of injury.
Just if it wasn’t clear to anyone else.
- Comment on Show your face and AI knows who you are. 3 weeks ago:
Such measurable biometric characteristics include facial features, gait, voice, or patterns in the iris of your eye.
It is when you are using neural networks to do the matching. It’s one of the main point of the Europe Unions AI bill which outlaws the use of machine learning tools like these on citizens by goverments or compagnies. There’s a couple of exceptions mostly when it’s a national security issue.
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 3 weeks ago:
Using public facing data to build machine learning model is not against copyright laws. There is a transformative clause for a reason.
Strengthening copyright laws will only hurt the open source scene and give companies like openai and google a soft monopoly.
Not only that but the money is going to go to data brokers and platforms like reddit and getty. Individuals aren’t getting a dime.
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 4 weeks ago:
It makes it seems worse. His parents knew he was having problems and still left a gun within easy reach.
- Comment on Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it 4 weeks ago:
I’m mostly looking for something that will comb news sites and tech blogs an hour before I get up and make me curated daily commentary.
I like podcasts but if I’m switching off audio books, it’s mostly because I’m having trouble concentrating. Music with a news tidbit every 15 minutes isn’t as taxing, specially on the drive back, but makes it a lot more interesting then just music alone.
- Comment on Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it 4 weeks ago:
So this a terrible use case and clearly fake interviewing dead people is plain silly.
That being said, I do have quite a drive to do everyday and I end up listening to the radio whenever I get bored of audio books. I would absolutely love a system that would mix up my favorite songs with AI hosts talking about recent news and subjects I specifically care about.
- Comment on draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
We fund the project entirely from sales of the Confluence integration.
Just to extend the conversation, the change implements one thing, it protects our revenue in the atlassian ecosystem.
What it does it protect the future development of the project by protecting the revenue. That’s more useful to you than the license being fully open source.
The primary losers of this change is anyone wanting to integrate draw.io into the Atlassian ecosystem.
I mean this does seem kind of fair. I’m not familiar with Confluence and Atlassian but it seems something mostly aimed at corporations, I’m not sur of hiww common it’s use is and how much is affected by this though.
I’m okay with something being 98% open source so they can survive on the extra 2%. And I much rather specific non competes for certain platforms then broad non-commercial clauses.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
You can do already do it but there isn’t really any need for a blockchain. I personally use runpod but there’s vaste.ai and a few others.
It’s usually quite cheap.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 1 month ago:
You might be able to convert to hevc (x265) and trim it down by quite a bit.
You will always lose a bit of quality converting though, even from 1080p to 1080p, but I consider it pretty acceptable for cartoons and things of that nature.
- Comment on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange says he pleaded 'guilty to journalism' in order to be freed 1 month ago:
There wouldn’t be a need for his methods if our government wasn’t constantly doing the dirty
- Comment on Hollywood should invest more R&D into fake barf technology 1 month ago:
People are social barfers. If you make it too realistic, you end up with your audience gagging.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 1 month ago:
About…STIs?
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- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Certain brands automatically connect themselves to open wifis I think so there is that to consider as well.
- Comment on In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea 1 month ago:
Yup it’s a cool feature and I’ll be sure to get some kind of open source tool that leverages my own computer ressources and isn’t tied to such a terrible printer to do it.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
The image choosing was always just to train their own bots
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
So are you willing to give up ownership of the url and have the instance be transfered to someone else’s hardware?
Maybe I misunderstood where you are going with this.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
Just coordinate the release of the urls and the transfer of the communties to someone elses hardware.
I’m skeptical about this since you wanted to bring blockchain subscription to lemmy a week ago and now you are squatting on 12 urls while trying to get volunteers to create value out of them. Nothing leads me to assume you are being altruistic.
It seems like you are waiting for the next influx to potentially monetize and trying to hold the most potential instances without putting any work or money into it. It’s just my impression.
I also think instances without users are a terrible idea.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
It seems kind of slimy.
If you don’t want the communities, stop squatting them. Having no users seems like just a way to keep costs down to you can hold onto more urls and is bad for the general ecosystem anyways.
- Comment on My wife misspoke and said "Neil Degrasse TITAN" 1 month ago:
His stupid tweet saying anything that doesnt enjoy sex is long extinct was in 2016. He was known as an idiot way before covid.
- Comment on Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies are a reminder of how easily your devices can be hacked – here’s how to make sure they are safe. 1 month ago:
No pizza huts in the middle east. It’s either pager bomb or carpet bomb.
- Comment on An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures 1 month ago:
It’s more of a win for Nintendo really.
- Comment on They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling 1 month ago:
The real risk is the voice being sold to Disney or Sony Music, and then youtube videos are getting removed because of similarities.
Voice tones aren’t all that unique in most cases and theres too much room for abuse imo. The Scarjo and open ai scandal is a good example of this. The voices weren’t that similar and I’m just not interested in having celebrities own whole spectrums like that.