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- Comment on 'Jetsons' robot finally arrives: Sweater-wearing Neo Gamma android helps with household chores 1 week ago:
I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week ago:
I like it for content discovery, but it feels weird to upvote bot posts. When I see something interesting enough to comment on I do try to see if there’s a similar article in a better community already or make cross-post.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models 3 weeks ago:
Yes! Slip the sound board guy your discman and $20 and get a perfect recording. I remember a few times where there were a stack of discmans and walkmans (Walkman?) recording.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on The Anthropic Economic Index: Understanding AI’s effects on the economy over time. 3 weeks ago:
The main findings from the Economic Index’s first paper are:
- Today, usage is concentrated in software development and technical writing tasks. Over one-third of occupations (roughly 36%) see AI use in at least a quarter of their associated tasks, while approximately 4% of occupations use it across three-quarters of their associated tasks.
- AI use leans more toward augmentation (57%), where AI collaborates with and enhances human capabilities, compared to automation (43%), where AI directly performs tasks.
- AI use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations like computer programmers and data scientists, but is lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles. This likely reflects both the limits of current AI capabilities, as well as practical barriers to using the technology.
Interesting, not really surprising, and nowhere near as entertaining as when Pornhub does it’s annual introspection.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 4 weeks ago:
The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 4 weeks ago:
Kinda funny how when mega corps can benefit from the millions upon millions of developer hours that they’re not paying for they’re all for open source. But when the mega corps have to ante up (with massive hardware purchases out of reach of any of said developers) they’re suddenly less excited about sharing their work.
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
No need to limit it to only people on social media…
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
😂
- Comment on Colours 4 weeks ago:
How else would you cosplay as neopolitan ice cream?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 4 weeks ago:
Yeah in that context I guess it makes sense.
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 4 weeks ago:
I never understood people posting porn to microblogging sites. What’s the point of this? There are literally millions of other places to get porn already, it’s like what the Internet was invented for.
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the company that made the article is plugging their own AI-detection service, which I’m sure needs a couple of paragraphs to be at all accurate. For something in the range of just a sentence or two it’s usually not going to be possible to detect an LLM.
- Comment on Defense of the internet (from billionaires) according to Cory Doctorow 4 weeks ago:
I think he’s pragmatic in the “whatever tool gets the job done” sense, but not in the “this is the job we should be doing” sense — if that makes any sense :)
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 4 weeks ago:
I have a hard time understanding facebook’s end game plan here - if they just have a bunch of AI readers reading AI posts, how do they monetize that? Why on earth is the stock market so bullish on them?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 129 comments
- Comment on Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons 2 months ago:
They’re culturing the mouse’s own cells, so no risk of rejection.
- Comment on Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons 2 months ago:
This is an interesting question. Just about every announcement I’ve seen so far has been for a read-only interface (for example, a paralyzed person envisioning moving his hand to make a robot arm move), but this Biohybrid one specifically mentions that they applied a signal (light) to the sensor to see if the mice would respond biologically.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 2 months ago:
My biggest problem with microblogging sites is that I have never been able to get a good, interesting content feed out of them without also getting lots of noise. Following hashtags usually gives me a mountain of retweets (or whatever) and trying to follow groups of related people/subject matter experts gives me lots of irrelevant content. Community-style social media forces people to more strictly categorize their content, I think.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d say “why on earth would they do this!?” but… we know why.
- Comment on Is the Wii good? 3 months ago:
I just replayed Super Mario Galaxy for the first time in about 10 years and it felt every bit amazing as the first time. What an incredible game.
My kids and I also still occasionally play MarioKart Wii (even though we have it in the switch too) just to use the Wii wheels :)
- Comment on BIOMES 3 months ago:
Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 4 months ago:
he aged
- Comment on Stormtroopers 4 months ago:
The duck’s name was also the inspiration for the blaster’s iconic sound
- Comment on [Official Art] Super Smash Bros. Japanese Box Art 5 months ago:
I love how all of the characters are scowling and have their game faces on… and then there’s Kirby, who’s like “Hi there! I’m gonna eat you and extract your power!”
- Comment on Solar PV Installations Will Reach Up To 660 Gigawatts In 2024 - CleanTechnica 8 months ago:
Yup, typically I just mentally multiply by 1000 (nice round numbers). But obviously a 100MW farm in the Sahara is going to produce more in a year than the same 100MW farm in Germany. It’d be cool to see a list on a global scale that showed a table and maybe generation vs demand curves for the area they serve. Maybe I’ll put it on my “projects I’ll never get to” list.