Bad pay, no college education required, but granted the ability to exert power over others... exactly what sort of person do you think you're going to attract with that sort of job description?

Nobody called anybody. It's a weapons detection system. They're deliberately running it. The article makes it sound like ChatGPT got bored, started watching webcams, and decided to narc on the Doritos Guy. That's not even close to what happened.

From TFS, there's no indication either way of whether they had seen the picture before, and if I had to argue either way from the wording, I'd go with "yes, they had".

Also, when did we switch from calling weapons detections systems "weapons detections systems" to "artificial intelligence systems"? It's still true, but a much less useful choice of wording, and is probably going to make some readers think they were shoving video feeds through ChatGPT or something.

Also, in the picture, it was clearly their cell phone and how they were holding it that triggered the alert, not the Doritos bag.

Sigh, true, I guess the future needs to become decentralised?

"And your etymology is a fantasy. "

You've confused c.f. with e.g..

Only if you want your delivery to be very expensive. The article kind of didn't bother to mention that only the ZQ-3's first stage is reusable, so it's more like a "Starship-esque Falcon 9", both in terms of reusability, size, payload, diameter, etc..

Seriously, what's the point of using AI to generate details that even bleeding edge hardware can't run at a decent framerate

I don't know what you're talking about. This is as far as I can tell about the process of creating game assets in the first place - not about generating them in realtime. It doesn't have any impact on performance.

I've used AI model generators (mainly image-to-model), and for game-type assets, they're usually good enough, though you still of course want a human to exert control over them. But it's way faster than from-scratch modeling. For say 3d printing, though, you really need to decompose the image into smaller components, process each individually, and merge, because otherwise too much fine detail gets lost into the texture instead of being part of the actual model. Regardless, they've been improving at a good pace. I haven't tried (as I've not had a need) but I think they now have model generators that even rig the models.

Ah, cunning.

“The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.”

It's maddening, and also, kinda fascinating what, the reasons why they insist on this, could be.

I asked ChatGPT to speculate in a psychologically informed way, on what the reasons could be. Naturally your point about control came up a lot (many people think at a concrete level and so can't understand having a team which they can't "see").

I'll quote this last reason it churned out, which is again about capacity for perception:

Truly post-conventional thinkers can hold paradox: that productivity can increase and control decrease; that structure can evolve and culture endure. Leaders operating below that level may feel forced to choose one side (“We can’t have both”), leading to simplistic, binary decisions like “Everyone must come back.”

Thanks for sharing what is probably one of the best feel-good stories of the month. Seriously, we're always hearing about how the system is grinding everyone down. It's easy to get really depressed and believe it all.

As someone who wrote a book on totalitarianism said, the antidote is to show that there's at least one voice that is different. One voice that can stand apart from the crowd. One voice that makes everyone rethink, hey, there are options and possibilities. So, thank you.

Sounds very awkward to deal with.

And as a thought experiment, if forcing every employee to wear an ankle tag solved the problem, would that justify forcing every employee to wear an ankle tag?

So I just wonder if a soft PC location logger feature is proportionate.

I guess there's already reasons for suspicion, so would this additional data collection be excessive?

IMHO, the most interesting thing they did was with the palette. They were obsessed with getting not just images snapped by the satellite as the sky, but having them actually look good, and even a "smart" mapping algorithm to the in-game palette wasn't good enough for them. So they wrote an algo to simultaneously choose a palette for both the colours in the satellite image and the colours in the game's graphical assets so it would pick colours best for both of them, and then remapped both the satellite image and the game's assets to this new palette. Also, normally satellite images are denoised on the ground, but a partner had gotten a machine learning denoising algo running on the satellite.

One thing they weren't able to deal with was that the game tiles the sky background, which is fine because it's a tileable image, but obviously random pictures of Earth aren't (except the nighttime images, which are all black!). If they had had more time, I imagine they would have set up something like heal selection to merge the edges, but one of the problems was that in order to take images of Earth, the satellite had to be oriented in a way that increased its drag and accelerated its deentry... so ironically, playing DOOM was accelerating the satellite's doom.

Here's a presentation from Ólafur.

I'd agree generally, but I wonder that in the end, it's actually irrelevant whether security is quantifiable. Sure, we could estimate the cost of a breach, estimating the risk of it happening, and even make a very credible job of it, but those numbers will often get the security dept people nowhere.

Why? Leaders think they are lucky and that they will get away with it.

If they were pessimistic scared pedantic types, they wouldn't be leaders.

And the technology is fragile. So it isn't really their fault. They have to succeed in the market whilst dependent on inherently fragile technology. Their only reasonable bet in that situation is to hope they stay lucky.

And by inherently fragile I mean, you buy it and it should just work, not this, hire an army of people to perform rituals and sacrifices to try to stop the company's crown jewels suddenly leaking out of the hole in the bottom of your coffee machine's waste basket.

Why the tech is so fundamentally fragile, despite many brilliant people creating it, is an exercise for the reader.

Sounds hyperbolic.

Now, where did I leave my car keys...