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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 39

Why because you like paying $15 for matinee ticket?

You like watching the Nth remake of whatever because productions costs are so high big studios are generally afraid to try things that are different?

The wonderful thing about all forms of 'fiction' where AI is concerned is that it does not have to be "correct" it is after all already fictitious. If AI can write a more entertaining book, or make a better movie, how come we should not want that?

Google indicates SAG has like 170K members world-wide. Obviously the vfx, editing, writers, directors- will pile on to those numbers but compared to the other industries this technologies are poised to disrupt, we are not talking about that many jobs here.

Frankly this could be really good for democratization of film as well. Holly Weird does not need to enjoy an out-sized cultural influence because early 20th century film need a lot light, and that required either very expensive to run very hot artificial light miserable to work under or long daylight hours with predictably fair weather - so southern CA was the spot..

I say bring on the AI Films!

Comment Re: Costs (Score 1) 78

This is what TBTF is all about. Big might be efficent but it is also brittle.

In a more ideal market place, supplies would have more clients, and each client would be a small enough part of their overall book of business, having one stop orders for a while would not put them out of business.

We used to have hundreds of small automakers, just in the US, now we probably don't have triple digits the world over.

Comment does it, though? (Score 1) 184

"We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof"

While that might be an interesting technical challenge, one has to wonder why. Just because something is "culture" doesn't mean it should be copied. Slavery was part of human culture for countless millenia. To the point where we haven't even gotten around to updating our "holy books" that all treat it as something perfectly normal. That's how normal slavery used to be.

(for the braindead: No, I'm not comparing Taarof to slavery. I'm just making a point with an extreme example.)

The thing is something called unintended consequences. So in order to teach an LLM Taarof you have to teach it to lie, to say things that don't mean what the words mean. And to hear something different from what the user says. Our current level of AI already has enough problems as it is. Do we really want to teach it to lie and to misread? Just because some people made that part of their culture?

Instead of treating LLMs like humans, how about just treating them as the machines they are? I'm pretty sure the Persians don't expect their light switches to haggle over whether to turn on the light or not, right? I stand corrected if light switches in Iran only turn on after toggling them at least three times, but I don't think so. In other words: This cultural expectation only extends to humans. Maybe just let the people complaining know that AIs are not actually human?

Comment Re: Spreading misinformation (Score 1) 197

So you are ignoring the part where THE BIDEN ADMIN ordered these folks offline? (YouTube already restored accounts that YouTube on its own took down gor violating YouTube rules, the story here is that these are the accounts that DIDN'T violate YouTube policies, the BIDEN ADMIN ordered them shutdown because the BIDEN ADMIN objected to their content.

Comment Re: Spreading misinformation (Score 0) 197

Alphabet blamed the Biden administration for limiting political speech on the platform. "Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies," the letter read.

I must have missed the impassioned pleas from 400 Hollywood A-Listers condemning the government for shutting down YouTubers, silencing criticsof the government...

Anyone got a link?

Im positive everyone on the left wailing about supposed government suppression of Jimmy Kimmel was just as outraged when these content creators were silenced BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION...

Comment Re: Embedded software is hard (Score 2) 55

One more level of subtlety required, grasshopper.

You can have all 10x coders on staff and in management, but if they all failed freshman physics (or avoided it at all costs, as many I know would have liked to), their embedded code isn't going to be functional if it controls real moving machinery in the real world.

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