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huh somehow i have never notice the zebra dick before.
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PhazonLink posted:huh somehow i have never notice the zebra dick before. I'm sorry the wh- squinting ... Huh.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Not super high-stakes, but as someone in the industry this thread about a Los Angeles opera company that decided to try to pass off some really obvious AI art as concept and costume designs made me laugh in despair: Christ, I see the gentleman dresses to the left. And is unusually well-endowed.
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Jan 11, 2024 04:56
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PT6A posted:Christ, I see the gentleman dresses to the left. And is unusually well-endowed. That’s a packer. Part of the period costume.
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Jan 11, 2024 05:05
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Also: Why tf did they connect their washing machine to the internet, is the question they should be asking
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Jan 11, 2024 10:17
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Weatherman posted:Why tf did they connect their washing machine to the internet, is the question they should be asking They should, but I really am curious what sort of data it's recording that would need 3.6 gigs a day. Is it recording audio the whole time?
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Jan 11, 2024 13:27
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Weatherman posted:Why tf did they connect their washing machine to the internet, is the question they should be asking Helpful to send a ping/notification to your phone when the wash is done
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Jan 11, 2024 14:31
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BabyFur Denny posted:Helpful to send a ping/notification to your phone when the wash is done My speed queen makes a loud buzz that I can hear from the entire house. It's entirely a mechanical system that if I have to replace the timer I can do that for like 100 bucks.
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Jan 11, 2024 14:43
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karthun posted:My speed queen makes a loud buzz that I can hear from the entire house. It's entirely a mechanical system that if I have to replace the timer I can do that for like 100 bucks.
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Jan 11, 2024 15:04
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Yes and then you come back and get the laundry? It's solving a problem that doesn't really need to be solved that much.
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Jan 11, 2024 15:41
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes and then you come back and get the laundry? What if someones kidnapped it, and it needs to discretely get a message to you telling you where it is, so you can go rescue it?
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Jan 11, 2024 15:49
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Even if it is pinging you when it is done, that doesn't explain the 3.6 gb of data.
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Jan 11, 2024 15:53
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It's probably mining crypto or doing some cloud thing where it constantly checks for updates and sends washing metrics.
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Jan 11, 2024 16:07
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dr_rat posted:What if someones kidnapped it, and it needs to discretely get a message to you telling you where it is, so you can go rescue it? That’s nice but I’m just reporting it to ICE as a runaway and getting a new live-in “domestic help” without status. Smart washer? What’s that? That sounds like a poor people thing.
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Jan 11, 2024 16:20
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BabyFur Denny posted:Yeah if you happen to be around it's great! But if you're not I assume the buzzer stops after a short while? Then when I get home I immediately put the laundry into the driver because I know that I have a load in the washing machine. Does getting the notification change your behavior? WHY would getting a notification change your behavior? I know it takes about 30 minutes for my washing machine to do a load of laundry. The drier is a bit more variable but it also doesn't matter as much.
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Jan 11, 2024 16:45
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About the only thing I can think of it that it might be convenient to load the washer before going to work, then start it remotely before you get home, so it's ready to go into the dryer right away without damp clothes sitting in the washer all day. But, also, that's extremely unnecessary and a similar thing could be accomplished by a basic timer, like many coffee machines have.
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So Will Sasso (From MadTV, does impressions) and some other dude have made a "Comedy AI" and have made a terrible, horrible, completely boneheaded move for trying advertise it and gain some notoriety: They "resurrected" George Carlin using the AI and made a new hour long special. The "AI" is called Dudesy. And in reality, like 100% of those "I made an AI watch 10billion hours of Cheers and had it write an episode" memes, it's just a basic text to speech tool that's been trained to mimic famous people's voices. Though if it being even that is suspect because in some of the promotion material Will implies that he "trained" the "AI" by just....doing an impression of what Carlin sounded like and used that as the basis for the voice. They've already gotten in trouble apparently by making a Tom Brady "AI Clone" do a terrible stand up bit about bad football jokes and got hit with a Cease and Desist. USA Today story about it. quote:Responding to a commenter asking if the AI comedy special was authorized, Carlin-McCall responded that it was not. The Estate of George Carlin, and specifically his daughter, are now out for blood over this. Sasso sought zero permission to make this, admitting as much to USAToday. Seems like he's approaching this in the same manner that he does his usual comedy, which is it's fair use, parody/an impression, so he can just go ahead. Which, sure? I guess. But it's still gross. Especially without even talking with the family of the deceased first. It's also pretty obvious that it's not even really "AI". Sasso is just laundering his own bad impression work through an AI facade to jump on the tech bandwagon. He's just writing his own jokes and pretending an "AI" ""trained"" on Carlin came up with the stuff and either running it through an TTS or just loving recording himself doing an impression. The special itself is not worth watching, even in a "this is so bad it's good" way. It's an hour of audio over AI art images vaguely related to what Sasso is saying at the moment. If you must it's all up on youtube and you can easily find it.
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I think we should just let dead people die. The Star Wars movies using those dead actors and CGI was bad too. I don't care about permission from the estate, but this is pretty egregious because they didn't even bother to get that. I agree with you that it is probably Sasso laundering his jokes through Carlin's image. The special seems a lot more coherent that the AI stuff like the endless Seinfeld episodes or the Biden vs. Trump debate.
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Jan 11, 2024 18:37
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I would support publishing a Walt Disney AI impersonator, to voice public domain Mickey if nothing else. If it bothers the estate then they can resurrect Walt from cryostasis to state his objection.
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Jan 11, 2024 18:50
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BabyFur Denny posted:Helpful to send a ping/notification to your phone when the wash is done Nah
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What if LG actually implemented that thing that crypto cultists were going on about for a while, where your Internet of poo poo™ home appliances would all communicate and trade small amounts to cryptocoins with each other in a competition for efficiency, or something like that. So kind of like what happened with Sears but in your own home with your toaster and fridge lol
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Jan 11, 2024 19:02
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gurragadon posted:I think we should just let dead people die. We should, but capitalism. Everything is an asset and if assets aren't being used to make money then you're losing money. In reality you're not, but capital is going to capital. If you're already spending millions to digitize actors so you can "de-age" them then why no just use those same digitized scans to have them act. Why not use a hologram of Tu Pac to sell more tickets to Lollapalooza? If Hatsume Miku can have a several decades long career, including a stage show, why not just have your golden goose performing forever? Right now it's not necessarily "cheaper" but eventually? Yeah, it's a lot cheaper in the long run to have an artificial simulacrum of a celebrity performing, under complete creative control, without needing to pay for all that extra stuff related to them "being alive, sentient, distinct human beings". At the very least you never have to worry about them running off and doing or saying something stupid that kills the magic. Or dying. Which is what they're trying to get around in the first place. It's all so gross and uncanny too. In a way that just seeing a 2D or 3D animated version of that same actor just doesn't reach. Tom Hanks in The Polar Express is weird looking, just like the rest of the animation, but it is actually him. At least it's him voicing the character. He is actually alive and agreed to do that. It just looks uncanny, but that's where the dissonance stops. Hologram Tu Pac is a whole different beast. 3D, "de-aged", "AI" Carrie Fisher is soulless and off putting. And "AI" George Carlin is downright sacrilegious considering who he was and what he stood for.
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That gives me a great idea for a dystopian young adult novel series. The age of acting is over. All performers are interchangeable drones miming in front of a green screen while wearing ping pong ball suits and the digital skin mask of a long dead mid 20th to early 21st century celebrity. Nobody new ever becomes a star, because that space is permanently filled by the ghosts of the people who were during the childhoods of the elderly studio executives. But one plucky teenager finds an abandoned theater and a book of Shakespeare....
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I was writing a future noir book along those lines, but the more I dug into the premise the more it felt like the entire profession of acting wouldn't exist in such a scenario. And my narrative wasn't very compelling with a guy who sat at his computer and prompted a system to create a certain nuance of performance. Was much more fun to write when it was about people who got famous by doing really good impressions of 20th century actors and the protagonist was a Bogart who just so happened to get wrapped up in a real life case.
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Fukuyama's "End of History", but instead of "No war because every nation has a McDonald's" it's "capitalism locked into reusing the ghosts of culture forever more and incestuously cross pollinating everything into sludge".
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Tech Nightmares: We should, but capitalism
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ponzicar posted:That gives me a great idea for a dystopian young adult novel series. There are arguments among cinephiles and critics that Hollywood doesn't make movie stars anymore.
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ponzicar posted:That gives me a great idea for a dystopian young adult novel series. This is pretty similar to the scenario imagined by Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Cheap body actors getting implanted tracking nodes working in haptic booths that take on digital VR personas based on gigs that come into the agency.
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Woops wrong thread. Neal Stephenson is pretty cool and I wish I could be a samurai pizza hero protagonist
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gurragadon posted:The Star Wars movies using those dead actors and CGI was bad too. Professor Beetus posted:Woops wrong thread. Neal Stephenson is pretty cool and I wish I could be a samurai pizza hero protagonist
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Sage Grimm posted:This is pretty similar to the scenario imagined by Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Cheap body actors getting implanted tracking nodes working in haptic booths that take on digital VR personas based on gigs that come into the agency. The Diamond Age is a fantastic book and I would encourage people to read it. Edit: Cryptonomicon was so good and have some great analogies for how early encryption developed and works. Such a cool book beyond that to. I read it and The Diamond Age back to back. Nervous fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Nervous posted:The Diamond Age is a fantastic book and I would encourage people to read it. It's got some interesting ideas, but the story just goes to poo poo in the end.
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starkebn posted:It's got some interesting ideas, but the story just goes to poo poo in the end. This describes every Stephenson book
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Kagrenak posted:This describes every Stephenson book Baroque Cycle had a satisfying ending. Except for Leibniz, but... *gestures at recorded history*
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Cryptonomicon is probably my favorite too, but Diamond Age is fun and good. Snowcrash too.Old Kentucky Shark posted:Baroque Cycle had a satisfying ending.
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Professor Beetus posted:Woops wrong thread. Neal Stephenson is pretty cool and I wish I could be a samurai pizza hero protagonist Sorry, all we have in stock are samurai pizza cats
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Weatherman posted:Why tf did they connect their washing machine to the internet, is the question they should be asking Modern LG washers /driers have a whole rear end cycle preset called "Download" which is reserved for presets downloaded through their app. No you cannot program it manually. Delayed start is also gated behind the app IIRC. The solution is to not buy an LG but my landlord made that decision for me.
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ponzicar posted:That gives me a great idea for a dystopian young adult novel series.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Baroque Cycle had a satisfying ending. I'll have to check that one out. Ananthem felt like it was going to and then in the last act he just takes it completely off the loving rails.
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