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Consumers seem to select for cheaper and shittier in most cases and LLMs are great for that, so, a good engine to drive the further degeneration of society. Also if you assign an AI to set prices it has even less moral compunctions than the sleaziest of humans to say "just keep raising the price of everything, that will cause us to make more money", and they make pricing collusion more deniable. That said it feels like they might proverbially take what's left of the internet out behind the shed so maybe it will be a wash. Calling them "AI" at all, evoking truly intelligent machines from scifi like Asimov or Terminator or whatever, seems like pure hype. I haven't seen anything that makes it look like they'll ever be able to do more than regurgitate remixes of things humans have already done, so the idea that they're some "next step" in the march of scientific progress seems doubtful.
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syntaxfunction posted:Counter argument is that the only people AI lowers the barrier to entry to creating art for is probably the people who shouldn't try making art. Yeah, the "democratization of art" angle was always ridiculously myopic but to be fair I'm not hearing it much these days. Houle posted:I'm not too concerned about AI in peer reviewed papers since capitalism already killed that industry with mounds and mounds of bullshit churned out due to needing to put out a paper and not actually having anything to say and literally copy paste pictures and diagrams from other papers and then did when called out on it. It does seem like the state of academic publishing has been utterly dire for awhile now and this is just helping to expose it, so point for the LLMs I guess. BoldFace posted:Neither AI nor society will ever live up to your fiction-based standards. My standard for intelligence is higher than "can remix media when prompted"  . Do you have a good one? Bonus points if it wasn't created post hoc to to match LLMs.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I genuinely don't know why people still use Google when better search engines - Brave, StartPage, even Duck Duck Go - exist. Not a criticism; it just sounds like Google search hasn't been worth it for a few years now. Google.com is really easy to type into an address bar. I don't know what duck duck go was thinking.
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I like abstract art but I went to a big Rothko exhibit a few days ago and I was only like 40% feelin' it, to be honest. I'm more of Mondrian boy, the thing you have to realize is that he was working before MSPaint was invented. It really is something to go to an art museum and see some abstract piece, think "this looks pretty modern, an aesthetic I'd associate with 1980-2000 time period", and then look at the date and see it's from 1912 or something. I tried to imagine what it would be like to view this kind of art when it debuted, and be one of the first people to see an aesthetic that was entirely unlike anything anyone had seen before. It would be like being one of the first people to, say, eat an orange. When you think about it in those terms it's pretty easy to understand why this kind of art was so influential. What's the 2024 version of that?  lol
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From Ars Technica  AI... good?
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"Mapquest is almost perfected" Imagining that glorious day when the boys down in the lab finally crack Mapquest.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:lol how easy it was to get this. people that think true ai is close are fuckign rubes Hey now, we're probably less than a year away from people who have invested heavily in achieving AGI declaring we've achieved AGI.
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Time_pants posted:Does anybody else feel like the entire world is just phoning it in? Especially the people who really, really shouldn't? AI has delivered on only a tiny fraction of its promises (often only partially) and the assumption of delivering the rest is based purely on hype? Seems like with the end of cheap money most companies have given up on growth through making better products and outdoing the competition (when it exists) and instead are focusing on making their products cheaper and raising their prices. This sort of mission is not conducive to giving a poo poo.
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