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Comment Re:Good! (Score 2) 109

The French Foreign Legion existed for many many years and was a great success. If you're in a country's military... are you still an "illegal" immigrant? Being part of a peacekeeping security organization is about as Legal as it gets, is it not? Typically also a common way to gain citizenship. Bleeding for a country is probably better proof of citizenship than being born there.

Comment What if nobody wants to be in the military anymore (Score 5, Insightful) 109

Russia, England, the US are all experiencing the same thing: failing to hit recruitment goals. Between movies, games, and in particular social media coming out of Ukraine of kids getting shot at (and having to shoot back) in an active war, nobody wants to get involved in these things. From birth kids are exposed to the very grim reality of war, and voices both for and against it.
 
If nobody wants to go to war, how will government wage war? Russia is just barely hanging on to their immediate recruitment needs by sending their prison population through the meat grinder, and many of the best and brightest fled the country at the first hint of war. They all have (much, much better) jobs now and are unlikely to return before retirement age, if ever.
 
I think there's a lesson to be told here; going to war means your upper middle class will immediately flee, and your financial system will be kneecapped indefinitely. And also that nobody (who hasn't already been brainwashed) really wants to take a bullet for their country.

Comment Re:Too many people (Score 1) 43

I mostly use LLMs for 1) code completion and 2) extracting key facts without having to feed it through google and watch 25 ads to get the answer and 3) doing unit conversions (how many cups in 223 fl oz? how many mile is 226 km?). It's pretty great. If it could turn on/off the lights in my house and set cooking timers I'd be able to replace all the google home devices in my house tomorrow.

Comment Can I use this to upgrade my google home devices (Score 0) 26

I'd love for my google home devices to just tell me the answer to XYZ question without giving me a link to some terrible SEO result. The number of times I get "I don't know, but here's a search result that might help." bitch if I wanted to google it on my computer I'd just go do that. I'm not getting off my couch to go research what the population of salt lake city was last year, or what voltage high speed rail trains use in europe.

Comment This is going to happen a lot over the next 3-5 yr (Score 2, Insightful) 172

It's remarkably easy to pull an entire researcher's catalog of work, then use AI to cross reference it against all of (researcher's language here, probably english) scihub looking for plagiarism now. 10-40 hours per researcher. No surprise the people at the top cheated their way there.

Comment Re:This will get interesting (Score 1) 31

To use the dialog someone has to 1) prove you didn't write it without evidence and 2) prove you didn't rewrite portions of it, also without evidence. That's a pretty high burden of proof for the person trying to copy something they could have just asked chatgpt to generate for them.

Comment What happens when we finally train "the best" AGI? (Score 1) 105

You only need power to train models. Once you train a perfect or near-perfect AGI model.... how much power do you need to run it? Survey says about 100w instantaneous which is about what a human generates. But it only needs 100w when doing an actual task, which is usually 3-20 seconds at a time, a couple times an hour. How much do you use chatgpt?
 
I suspect there will be a huge spike in power needs, but actually running the model will be less than 20w per person per day

Comment Re:This will get interesting (Score 1) 31

You'd need to identify and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
 
1. that particular game asset was AI generated, and
 
2. the asset had not been modified in any way after generation, since modifying the asset makes it an original work and thus copyrightable
 
There's an extremely thin slice of AI generated work, like chat responses, first pass image generation that doesn't have copyright, but also has zero or close to zero economic value. You don't get to pirate the entire game GTA VI simply because there's a single 2D unaltered sprite in a folder somewhere that was ai generated

Comment Re: NO mods, NO money (Score 1) 45

I doubt investors will get $0.10 on the dollar for their investment. Buying internet forums has been a losing proposition for everyone. No collaboration is needed this IPO is signal enough that the investors want out and will unload their shares on anyone unlucky enough to buy this dumpster fire of no growth

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