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Comment I agree - don't copy voices (Score 1) 33

Personally, I'd expand a bit. Two games I've played recently are No Man's Sky, an open world SciFi survival craft game, and "Still Wakes the Deep", which is more a horror themed action visual novel.
Still Wakes the Deep is completely voiced, but utterly, absolutely, on the rails - there's always only one way forward. Thus, replayability factor is lacking.
No Man's Sky isn't voiced at all, but would likely make a lot of people cringe because of a large but still limited number of dialogues. Plus, well, probably whatever mechanic they use for the translation device, because you don't start knowing the alien languages. NMS has the "hundreds" of characters.
So I could see AI being used to not only create "hundreds" of different voices for all the characters, but to write different dialogue for them, even if it is variances on common themes.
Go from basically 100 characters with maybe different appearances to unlimited characters with like 100 archetypes.

Comment Re:Has anybody else? (Score 1) 72

I've seen what is clearly automated scraping of other channel content being used to generate "highlight reels" with AI created thumbnails. Basically they're hijacking content with views, repackaging it in order to present it as new, and then spamming YouTube with variations on it to see what sticks. The algorithms will help trend anything that gets traction - if you scrape enough interesting content and then throw it at the wall, you can get some instances to trend.

The one instance I can say was probably AI generated video was one of those fake livestreams that pop up claiming to be associated with Elon Musk and SpaceX, that push cryptocoins. This is a particularly good area to exploit because the official stream is only on X, so there are no official streams on YouTube.

https://www.popsci.com/technol...

https://mashable.com/article/f...

Mind you, this was old-school fake-ai where some human probably had to do the work to stitch it all together. I haven't seen any of the "new" 100% ai generated video yet... as far as I know.

Comment Give me a real filter (Score 1) 30

I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.

I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"

Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".

As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.

Comment Re: Wrong approach (Score 4, Informative) 77

It arguably accomplished its goals of bailing out the major auto makers by forcing people to buy new cars (the "cash" was actually just a trade in credit - you couldn't get rid of an old car without buying a new one.)

https://www.investopedia.com/t...

"The formal name for the program was the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS). The CARS program gave people who qualified a credit of up to $4,500, depending on the vehicle purchased and its improvement in fuel economy over the traded-in vehicle."

Yes it punished poor people by destroying the traded in cars (not to mention saddling them with the debt of buying a new one if they couldn't otherwise afford it.) This robbed the market not only of used cars for resale, but the parts to keep cars that weren't traded in working (since the traded in cars had to be crushed, and the engines destroyed by deliberately seizing the engines.)

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/...

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 117

You must not have traveled much in the last decade or so then.
Chargers are becoming more and more frequent. Though often they're not advertised outside of the charging apps, so they aren't super obvious unless you know what to look for.
That said, I didn't mention charging at night here.

70% charge@15 minutes ~ 210 miles = ~3 hours of driving @ 70mph. You could theoretically keep it up 24x7.
A nice long slow charge at night would help the battery, of course, and make it easier.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 117

And that's a very dangerous way to drive. We lost an incoming member and his family 50 miles outside of town because he presumably fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median, and hit a semi front-end. All 4 in the car died.

Taking proper breaks isn't that hard and increases the chances you'll actually make it.

If I'd tried to submit a travel plan with your proposal as junior enlisted, I'd have been told to redo it.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 117

A 15 minute break every 2 hours won't increase driving time by 50%. Worst case it'd change 8 days into 9, and that's only assuming that the breaks cut into driving time.
Meanwhile, driving without breaks and proper rest increases the chances that you will never make it, like the family that was coming to join my unit.
50 miles outside of town, crossed the median and hit the front end of a semi. All 4 in the car perished.
No drugs in the driver's system, all we could presume was that he fell asleep at the wheel.

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