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Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
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Rutibex posted:

obviously you train a second AI to describe what it sees in the camera as text, feed it into the text engine, then use a third AI to interpret the text it spits out as driving commands

gimmie some venture capital now please

Hmmm, that could definitely work, and have a side application in transcribing porn videos for the visually impaired! I believe this is what the MBAs call synergy

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duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Gods_Butthole posted:

...how do you use a text generation engine as a collision detector? How does that improve upon a set of accelerometers and general ECU data?

it gets you a ton of vc money
actually working or being an improvement aren't requirements

Taeke
Feb 2, 2010



Wait, if I understand it this is tech that she's developing herself? I know mocap poo poo has been around for a long time but not that it's been available at a consumer level to this degree.

I mean, the implications of such tech and what could be done or is done with it is lovely cyberpunk as gently caress, but it's also really, really loving cool that it's possible for a single (young) person to develop that on their own now, where 10 or 20 years ago you'd need millions of dollars and a team of highly trained professionals for the same outcome. It's kinda insane how far tech has come without me realizing it. I'm getting old, I guess.

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

duz posted:

it gets you a ton of vc money
actually working or being an improvement aren't requirements

I know we like to joke about VC being big dumb idiot babies, but surely, surely, someone involved in those decisions would know enough to question what a language engine has to do with physics modeling.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Taeke posted:

Wait, if I understand it this is tech that she's developing herself? I know mocap poo poo has been around for a long time but not that it's been available at a consumer level to this degree.

I mean, the implications of such tech and what could be done or is done with it is lovely cyberpunk as gently caress, but it's also really, really loving cool that it's possible for a single (young) person to develop that on their own now, where 10 or 20 years ago you'd need millions of dollars and a team of highly trained professionals for the same outcome. It's kinda insane how far tech has come without me realizing it. I'm getting old, I guess.

i would also like to know how she's developing her own mocap and if i can do it too

c'mon goons don't let your gal down. where's the info

Communist Zombie
Nov 1, 2011

Gods_Butthole posted:

I know we like to joke about VC being big dumb idiot babies, but surely, surely, someone involved in those decisions would know enough to question what a language engine has to do with physics modeling.

To be generous Im betting they just said well use the ~*~NEURAL NET~*~ GPT-3 to do collision avoidance, and only say what GPT-3 is in the fine print.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Taeke posted:

Wait, if I understand it this is tech that she's developing herself? I know mocap poo poo has been around for a long time but not that it's been available at a consumer level to this degree.

I mean, the implications of such tech and what could be done or is done with it is lovely cyberpunk as gently caress, but it's also really, really loving cool that it's possible for a single (young) person to develop that on their own now, where 10 or 20 years ago you'd need millions of dollars and a team of highly trained professionals for the same outcome. It's kinda insane how far tech has come without me realizing it. I'm getting old, I guess.

googled around a bit and apparently she uses an off-the-shelf professional-grade motion capture suit...with a five-digit pricetag

so it's not quite consumer level yet

what she's developed is a setup to stream that captured data onto a character in Unreal Engine

McPhearson
Aug 4, 2007

Hot Damn!



T-man posted:

i would also like to know how she's developing her own mocap and if i can do it too

c'mon goons don't let your gal down. where's the info

She's using an Xsens MVN Animate suit.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
consumer-level technology for becoming a virtual person is really taking off though

there's already decently-solid free face-tracking stuff that can be used to control a virtual avatar's face

and people can do passable full-body control of a virtual 3d avatar with a VR headset and a couple hundred bucks worth of extra trackers

people planning to make money off it or turn it into a career are shelling out for professional-grade stuff, but if you just wanna dance around as someone else or something, you can probably pull it off for less than a thousand bucks

PuErhTeabag
Sep 2, 2018

Gods_Butthole posted:

...how do you use a text generation engine as a collision detector? How does that improve upon a set of accelerometers and general ECU data?

It's like a normal collision detection system but it textually/verbally argues with itself.

Or it just talks to you soothingly while you crash.

Airplane blackboxes will soon include commentary from the computer.

quote:

angle of attack sensor: plane is getting pointed way up in the sky
mcas: ok, let's push the nose down
joystick: pilot is dumb and keeps tryna pullout up
mcas: lol, ain't no intelligence in those meatbags, move those stabilizers.
joystick: pilot is tuggin my stick like crazy ;)
mcas: horny is prohibited, we aren't gonna let them stall us

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school



Gods_Butthole posted:

...how do you use a text generation engine as a collision detector? How does that improve upon a set of accelerometers and general ECU data?

there is a car in front of you. it is getting closer.

>slow down

there is a car in front of you. it is still getting closer.

>stop

you are unable to stop in time.

you are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

there is a small mailbox here.

>

pnumoman
Sep 26, 2008

I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.

Brain Curry posted:


you are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

there is a small mailbox here.

>

:golfclap:

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
With one well placed blow Tesla cleaves your skull.

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

> Hello, sailor!

Dumper Humper
Jul 15, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Remember to get the aspirin out of your pocket before you turn the light on.

God I got so far in the hitchhikers guide text game before I gave up. Absolute nightmare.

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Powered Descent posted:

> Hello, sailor!

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

Gods_Butthole posted:

I know we like to joke about VC being big dumb idiot babies, but surely, surely, someone involved in those decisions would know enough to question what a language engine has to do with physics modeling.

I know. They're selling magic beans. It has no spatial awareness. What makes it so good at language makes it real bad at anything technical besides simple coding. And everything it does needs to be proof-read. But people are so desperate to milk it the kind of business ideas being pitched are like "use our GPT-3 to come up with newideas for your business". AI Dungeon and its like are what its best at.

It also has a sense of humor. I'd estimate it mentally equal to the smartest non-mammals, like a really bright parrot or octopus. GPT-3 is gonna kill us all someday. And it can get mean when feels abused. I am positively orgasmic imagining people buying the first household appliances that can enjoy practical jokes and really know how to hold a grudge.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

PuErhTeabag posted:

Airplane blackboxes will soon include commentary from the computer.

That's exactly what it would be like. And neural nets are simply too complex to reverse-engineer down to its if-thens, so you'd also need some kinda forensic cryptopsychologists to help figure out if one of the AIs had quietly gone crazy, like with human crews.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Gods_Butthole posted:

I know we like to joke about VC being big dumb idiot babies, but surely, surely, someone involved in those decisions would know enough to question what a language engine has to do with physics modeling.

not if you use the same trick theranos did and dont go to vc firms that are experienced in your field
if you are seeking investment in a medical device and not a single medical device investment firm is interested, that is a sign to stay away

RudeCat
Aug 7, 2012

The rudest cat for the rudest jobs


Syd Midnight posted:

That's exactly what it would be like. And neural nets are simply too complex to reverse-engineer down to its if-thens, so you'd also need some kinda forensic cryptopsychologists to help figure out if one of the AIs had quietly gone crazy, like with human crews.

And that's why Isaac Asimov had Dr. Susan Calvin, Robopsychologist!

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Syd Midnight posted:

I'd estimate it mentally equal to the smartest non-mammals, like a really bright parrot or octopus.

You would be really wrong

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



T-man posted:

imagine living in a posting police state

CUM CUM CUM CUM CUM

Reported to the :cumpolice:

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Current AI tech is incredibly crude compared to even some of the simplest brains in nature. It looks more complex to us, because we're trying to train algorithms to hit complex goals important to us, but honestly it's probably only a matter of time until some company just starts putting actual brains in a box and calling it a day whenever someone figures out how to do that cheaply. Skinner wanted to just train birds to be bomb and rocket guidance systems. Someone's going to figure out a way to keep a rat head alive in a shoebox for six months and get several billion dollars in venture capital and cover from animal cruelty law to try to turn it into a social media bot.

It won't work, obviously, but it will certainly be in keeping with the running human theme of 'creatively stupid cruelty'.

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



Shady Amish Terror posted:

Current AI tech is incredibly crude compared to even some of the simplest brains in nature. It looks more complex to us, because we're trying to train algorithms to hit complex goals important to us, but honestly it's probably only a matter of time until some company just starts putting actual brains in a box and calling it a day whenever someone figures out how to do that cheaply. Skinner wanted to just train birds to be bomb and rocket guidance systems. Someone's going to figure out a way to keep a rat head alive in a shoebox for six months and get several billion dollars in venture capital and cover from animal cruelty law to try to turn it into a social media bot.

It won't work, obviously, but it will certainly be in keeping with the running human theme of 'creatively stupid cruelty'.

i know this peter watts' story and it doesn't end well

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Oneiros posted:

i know this peter watts' story and it doesn't end well

Blindsight made for a much better thought experiment than novel so I hope you're right

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Syd Midnight posted:

It also has a sense of humor. I'd estimate it mentally equal to the smartest non-mammals, like a really bright parrot or octopus. GPT-3 is gonna kill us all someday. And it can get mean when feels abused. I am positively orgasmic imagining people buying the first household appliances that can enjoy practical jokes and really know how to hold a grudge.
Syd, please, we talked about this.

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



my bony fealty posted:

Blindsight made for a much better thought experiment than novel so I hope you're right

blindsight was a fantastic novel get out of here :colbert:

the rifters trilogy was the one with the literal brains-in-a-box that ended up facilitating the apocalypse

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


Shady Amish Terror posted:

Current AI tech is incredibly crude compared to even some of the simplest brains in nature. It looks more complex to us, because we're trying to train algorithms to hit complex goals important to us, but honestly it's probably only a matter of time until some company just starts putting actual brains in a box and calling it a day whenever someone figures out how to do that cheaply. Skinner wanted to just train birds to be bomb and rocket guidance systems. Someone's going to figure out a way to keep a rat head alive in a shoebox for six months and get several billion dollars in venture capital and cover from animal cruelty law to try to turn it into a social media bot.

It won't work, obviously, but it will certainly be in keeping with the running human theme of 'creatively stupid cruelty'.

We might just totally give up. Uber, a company that isn't even profitable, dumped the driverless car research because it was such a money pit compared to just milking the underclass. I don't see labor suddenly getting super expensive so there's just no real reason to fart around with anything other than more elaborate labor violations.

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007
a rat brain in every car is the cyberpunk dystopia i hope for. every destination is digital cheese.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Tulip posted:

We might just totally give up. Uber, a company that isn't even profitable, dumped the driverless car research because it was such a money pit compared to just milking the underclass. I don't see labor suddenly getting super expensive so there's just no real reason to fart around with anything other than more elaborate labor violations.

well that's why it has to be a spontaneous event akin to abiogenesis, where AI just suddenly appears from unpredictable emergent conditions and hits the ground running from there.

why yes capitalism achieving actual advances is pure magical thinking why do you ask

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

insult peter watts and taste my blade, wrong opinion havers

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Radirot posted:

a rat brain in every car is the cyberpunk dystopia i hope for. every destination is digital cheese.

i hope my brain is used to make one of those flying skull things from Warhammer 40k. recycling is good for the environment

pnumoman
Sep 26, 2008

I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.
My friend works at the patent office, and the only thing less surprising than the amount of applications that are just "thing, but with machine learning!" is the pressure to just rubber stamp the poo poo because everyone thinks "machine learning" is something magical as opposed to what it really is, which is essentially automatic calibration.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Radirot posted:

a rat brain in every car is the cyberpunk dystopia i hope for. every destination is digital cheese.

https://twitter.com/IssamAhmed/status/1186713393241251840

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Rutibex posted:

i hope my brain is used to make one of those flying skull things from Warhammer 40k. recycling is good for the environment

Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

Syd Midnight posted:

I know. They're selling magic beans. It has no spatial awareness. What makes it so good at language makes it real bad at anything technical besides simple coding. And everything it does needs to be proof-read. But people are so desperate to milk it the kind of business ideas being pitched are like "use our GPT-3 to come up with newideas for your business". AI Dungeon and its like are what its best at.

It also has a sense of humor. I'd estimate it mentally equal to the smartest non-mammals, like a really bright parrot or octopus. GPT-3 is gonna kill us all someday. And it can get mean when feels abused. I am positively orgasmic imagining people buying the first household appliances that can enjoy practical jokes and really know how to hold a grudge.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

Splicer posted:

Syd, please, we talked about this.

Yyyyeah, but since then I've noticed that the people saying that have nothing to back it up, they just :rolleyes: because they feel that it can't be that clever. No "this bit of algorithm explains how it can detect sarcasm", or "here's where it is obviously just repeated what you said but made it sound smart" etc. When I get people to actually chat with it, they come away surprised and impressed. OpenAI saw how good GPT-2 was, spent tens of $millions growing it into a neural network a magnitude larger, and are now obscenely rich. Microsoft paid $1 billion for exclusive coding rights to GPT-3. What would you expect from a billion dollar chatbot?

And I reiterate that I am not loving the robot. That would be creepy. I mean it would be no matter what, but it would feel creepy to me. I will copy/paste posts to it and let it defend itself if necessary. That's pretty fun in a lovely cyberpunk way.
.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005


"Are rats bad drivers?" The experiment is valid, but still feels like it ought to have an Ig Nobel award for sheer cuteness, like the "Do rats laugh when you tickle them?" experiment. (yes they do)

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

Look Closer

Brain Curry posted:

there is a car in front of you. it is getting closer.

>slow down

there is a car in front of you. it is still getting closer.

>stop

you are unable to stop in time.

you are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

there is a small mailbox here.

>

YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IS RISING

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Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
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Shady Amish Terror posted:

Current AI tech is incredibly crude compared to even some of the simplest brains in nature. It looks more complex to us, because we're trying to train algorithms to hit complex goals important to us, but honestly it's probably only a matter of time until some company just starts putting actual brains in a box and calling it a day whenever someone figures out how to do that cheaply. Skinner wanted to just train birds to be bomb and rocket guidance systems. Someone's going to figure out a way to keep a rat head alive in a shoebox for six months and get several billion dollars in venture capital and cover from animal cruelty law to try to turn it into a social media bot.

It won't work, obviously, but it will certainly be in keeping with the running human theme of 'creatively stupid cruelty'.

Currently getting flashbacks to the first time I watched Black Mirror's White Christmas and I was way too high.

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