AI don't trust techbros

[Pocket]

Funny you should say that, I saw a commercial on YouTube just today for some tool called "Focal" or something that claims you can just feed it a script and it'll spit out a whole-ass movie.

There are definitely people who are going to champion this tech as an "equalizer", you know, now anyone can make their dreams a reality even if they're not some wealthy producer with Hollywood connections. Which sounds great, but in a world where everyone can create their own bespoke experiences, who's going to want to watch anyone else's?

 

[KidTDragon]

in a world where everyone can create their own bespoke experiences, who's going to want to watch anyone else's?

Who else read this in Don LaFontaine's voice?

 

[Dekafox]

Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. They modeled ONE leaf, then manipulated visible models on the tree and adjusted textures to make the majority dissimilar in the panning shot the camera does. Hundreds of hours on resources to make a set piece that (granted, tweaked and reused rampantly.) that gets 5 seconds of exposure.

Iterative tools will GREATLY help in cutting down the time needed to make backgrounds and set pieces... it's a jump similar to what computers did to special effects in general.

Problem is: they won't just use it to make backgrounds, eventually some suit will give the studio a starving artists budget and tell 'em to make a blockbuster and they'll have to entirely use AI to make it... and it's going to suck.

Procedural generation of environments existed long before the current LLMs - see No Man's Sky. (Also Starfield, as that was developed before the latest AI craze)

 

[wonko the sane?]

I was more talking about movies rather than games, but yeah, true.

You'll also note it kinda sucked.

 

[Ungnome]

Procedural generation IS used in movies, and has been for a long time. Pixar developed a procedural hair system for Brave. The waves in Titanic, proceduraly generated by a set of rules. Only difference now is that they are moving the algorithms from the super-tedious things to the standard things. As far as who will watch other peoples 'ai created' content when they can just create their own.... I don't think that concern is fully valid. Humans are social creatures and have an inherent need for shared experiences. Bigger concern is how to we navigate a world where creative works can be generated by a few prompts. Generative AI takes a lot of computer power and, well, Moore's Law is at it's limit. The tech will only be usable by the big guys effectively due to cost. It won't be the democratizing force some people think it will be, at least not when it comes to movies. Once again, though, if we are intent, as a society, to go down the AI pipeline, we NEED to rethink vast swaths of how our society works. Modern capitalism just won't work in such a world, problem is modern capitalists are the ones pushing AI heavily....

 

[Dekafox]

Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone

Meta’s CEO talks about the company’s Orion AR glasses and why he thinks it could replace the smartphone.

www.theverge.com

Zuckerberg of course wants to replace following actual people with following AI bots. It basically reads to me as "Your friends are now obsolete - when they can't provide the content you want, we will."

 

[wonko the sane?]

Okay marky mark, I'll gladly pay you for the content and replace my friends with your bots... when your ******* bots can give me a hug.

 

[Dekafox]

OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says

OpenAI stokes China fears to woo US approvals for huge data centers, report says.

arstechnica.com

Each one would use more energy than an entire state in Australia, all 5 of them together would more electricity than all of Australia itself.

 

[Dekafox]

OpenAI as we knew it is dead

The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out.

www.vox.com

ANd now they're reorganizing as a for-profit entity(they were technically nonprofit before)

 

[Ungnome]

Funny, always thought they were a for profit company.

 

[Pocket]

The really crazy thing about this story is that OpenAI was founded by two people, one of them was Elon Musk, and it's the other guy who's to blame for this move while Musk is the one criticizing it and even claiming it's illegal. (It is not.)

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1839186902915662324

Well, golly, Elon, I guess you'd better spend some money lobbying to have it made illegal. Do some good for once in your worthless life.

 

[Ungnome]

So Altman tanks the company by pissing off the talent and gets a bonus.... Sounds like Musk is just upset he didn't do it first.

 

[Dekafox]

Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])

Microsoft’s new pitch for Copilot includes your Microsoft devices having an “ever present” AI assistant that listens to your spoken conversations, and takes notes. As with Recall, when this stuff becomes available I would recommend turning it off until there’s been independent assessment of...

cyberplace.social

 

[Anonymous X]

What a great future we have in front of us.

 

[Rhinox]

I need old people to stop trying to **** the next generation over. I actually love my kids and want them to have a world to live in that isn't a goddamn wasteland.
Fallout is not supposed to be a goal, goddamnit.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

....Do these techbros not notice the GIANT FUSION REACTOR IN THE SKY?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

They can't see it around their own egos.

 

[wonko the sane?]

....Do these techbros not notice the GIANT FUSION REACTOR IN THE SKY?

No, because nothings shines brighter than them.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I need old people to stop trying to **** the next generation over. I actually love my kids and want them to have a world to live in that isn't a goddamn wasteland.
Fallout is not supposed to be a goal, goddamnit.

Fallout is ABSOLUTELY the goal... when you're the enclave.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Removing-Windows-Recall-breaks-File-Explorer-in-latest-24H2-update.899991.0.html

When Microsoft announced its AI-powered Recall feature, which essentially creates a searchable timelapse of what you're doing on your desktop, there was a massive outcry from both privacy experts and computer nerds across the internet. While the initial Recall launch was pushed back, it looks like Microsoft has taken it upon itself to make it basically impossible to use modern Windows File Explorer features without Recall on the PC. According to YouTuber Chris Titus Tech (video embedded below), who performed testing and technical analysis on the latest Windows 11 24H2 update, it is possible to disable Recall, but doing so in any convenient way also disables the modern Windows File Explorer.