rainynight65
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Migrated from rainynight65@feddit.de, which now appears to be dead. Sadly lost my comment history in the process. Let’s start fresh.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 1 week ago:
Sure, training data selection impacts the output. If you feed an AI nothing but anime, the images it produces will look like anime. If all it knows is K-pop, then the music it puts out will sound like K-pop. Tweaking a computational process through selective input is not the same as a human being actively absorbing stimuli and forming their own, unique response.
AI doesn’t have an innate taste or feeling for what it likes. It won’t walk into a second hand CD store, browse the boxes, find something that’s intriguing and check it out. It won’t go for a walk and think “I want to take a photo of that tree there in the open field”. It won’t see or hear a piece of art and think “I’d like to be learn how to paint/write/play an instrument like that”. And it will never make art for the sake of making art, for the pure enjoyment that is the process of creating something, irrespective of who wants to see or hear the result. All it is designed to do is regurgitate an intersection of what it knows that best suits the parameters of a given request (aka prompt). Actively learning, experimenting, practicing techniques, trying to emulate specific techniques of someone else - making art for the sake of making art - is a key component to humans learning from others and being influenced by others.
So the comparison between human learning and influencing, and the selective feeding of data to an AI to ‘tune’ its output are entirely different things that cannot and should not be compared.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 1 week ago:
Generative AI is not ‘influenced’ by other people’s work the way humans are. A human musician might spend years covering songs the like and copying or emulating the style, until they find their own style, which may or may not be a blend of their influences, but crucially, they will usually add something. AI does not do that. The idea that AI functions the same as human artists, by absorbing influences and producing their own result, is not only fundamentally false, it is dangerously misleading. To portray it as ‘not unethical’ is even more misleading.
- Australia is failing its children. A ‘tough on crime’ approach to youth justice puts politics before preventionwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Linda Reynolds failed to offer a ‘basic human response’ after Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, court told 2 weeks ago:
Someone among Linda Reynolds’ advisors should have had the courage to tell her that persisting with this defamation trial, especially in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann trial, is really shitty optics.
And the fact that they tried to make it all about alleging that Higgins wanted to bring down the government, while putting Reynolds into the role of the victim, makes it even worse.
I really hope Reynolds fails in this trial.
- Comment on Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report 2 weeks ago:
Re 1, 3 and 5, maybe it is upon the AI projects to stop providing shiny solutions looking for a problem they could solve, and properly engaging with potential customers and stakeholders to get a clear understanding of the problems that need solving.
This was precisely the context of a conversation I had at work yesterday. Some of our product managers attended a conference that was rife with AI stuff, and a customer rep actually took to the stage and said ‘I have no need for any of that because none of it helps me solve the problems I need to solve.’
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia 3 weeks ago:
She obviously means for the government to just subside on the existing mining royalties, while also abolishing certain taxes, the act of which will surely help pay for all her lofty fantasies.
- Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australiawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 4 weeks ago:
What you’re describing are use cases for charter flights - renting an aircraft for a specific, temporary purpose, usually from a company specialising in such flights - they own or lease the aircraft and employ the flight crew and maintenance staff.
- Comment on Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android 5 weeks ago:
Last time I checked, on iOS it didn’t have either.
- Comment on Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android 5 weeks ago:
Support for downloading and Chromecast? Sign me up.
- Comment on Aluminum 5 weeks ago:
Then we also need to talk about Sodum, Potassum, Magnesum, Plutonum, Uranum, Cadmum, Chromum, Titanum and a bunch more. Why should Aluminum be the outlier?
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 1 month ago:
I always say: if I’m ever in a situation where I need a job and can only get one with a former employer - do I want them to say “hell yeah” or “hell no”?
I’ve worked with people who, if they had to ask me for a reference, I would decline to give one. By the same token, I would reject their application for a job in my company or team. And I have worked with the opposite - people who will always under any circumstances get help from me if they’re looking for a job. All the competence in the world doesn’t help if someone is miserable to be around.
Having contacts, people who are willing to give references and similar always helps. Sure, you can do job hunting hard mode, but why make things unnecessarily difficult?
- Comment on Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost 1 month ago:
Something that conforms to or supports my views: not political.
Something that contradicts my views: political.