The good old days were before that. Circa '92 was good. Reasonable etiquette, news groups for almost every interest you could care to name, decent people you could run into (a bunch of people I met on the 'net prior to '92 was the start of many trips over to the States, many of whom I'm still in touch with). After '92-93 was the Eternal September, and the net went to hell in a handbasket.
Birds are pretty smart, full stop. They're the only group that has a method of creating and using their own hooked tools (Caledonian Crow) other than humans.
They are excellent problem solvers overall. Given their size relative to comparative intellects (Crows are comparable in intellect to monkeys and gorillas), they're absolute marvels.
Bioware may well be a shadow of its former self, but at the end of the day, love or hate what they produced in their latter days, it's all people that worked every day to do their best to bring about what management and the employed script writers specified.
There are many posts about graphics being superb, but gameplay lacking. That's a decision by game designers, rather than all the team, many of who are lumbered with knowing it could be better but constrained to produce what the spec and story said.
I feel for the team, each of who would be trying to make a living, and hope that some of the other studios may be able to wrangle increasing head count to absorb some of the EA fallout. Or that some kickstarter will be set up by the now unemployed members to rebuild some of what the old Bioware (and others) were once known for.
Good luck out there, ex EA employees. We'll be cheering you on for a path back to stability!
I will say this... as a long time mod for some popular communities, Reddit has really refined their content management systems and they do have the capability to restrict AI slop if they want to. It will be interesting to see if they can reliably do this in a way to avoid being contaminated?
... they could find some adventurous guy to go on an epic journey to recover the lost hard drive?
In fairness, while America may lose a Nobel prize winning chemist, they'll pick up several South African Nazis.
Linux and ARM would disagree. Probably loads more too.
I can understand all that, but it still doesn't say why acting deserves special treatment.
Coders enjoy coding. AI has taken a chunk out of that, and people treat it as beneficial. It's taken a lot of translators out of the picture. They enjoy what they do. It's taken a slice out of countless jobs that people enjoy doing, and there's been a bit of a murmur about job losses.
Then we get to acting, with a famous actor being deep faked into a movie with the consent of his estate, and everyone is up in arms because actor and celebrity.
The sad bit is yes, this obsoletes many aspects of human engagement, just as the industrial revolution rendered a lot of manual work. It will continue to do it. The question is how we as a species adapt to it, and utilise it to our benefit.
It's not just a child. It's a child plus a network of organised crime that specialises in tooling for illicit compromise, which said child has access to, plus contacts with compromise experience to learn from. This changes things significantly.
Cybersecurity is a hellishly expensive thing if done to the degree that's found in financials and the like (where a bad compromise could have serious international ramifications).
Most places don't have the budget to hire enough of the right staff to protect against a dedicated attacker with up to date compromise tools. It only takes one flaw for things to start going very wrong indeed.
It's a case of "Taking security as seriously as you can afford to" as an operational expense, and keep insurance up to date for if you're ever compromised.
Yep, there's a very good reason that engineers poke and prod at things for years before marking something as safe for a life critical area.
The 2008 crisis was created by financial institutions selling complex securities that were incapable of performing due diligence on to verify their solvency.
These were called "securitized mortages and default credit swaps."
The new version of this is called "tokenized assets."
Same difference.
Prepare to be screwed if you play in that market.
Why would somebody who believes in objective truths like science, want to live in a country where the ruling class has complete, un-challenged power?
Where you have no control or influence over what is done with your work?
Where one day you could be doing science stuff, and the next you could be imprisoned with no due process?
It's amazing this crap has lasted this far, but I understand so many people feel so disenfranchised they're willing to try anything, including "digital magic beans."
Here's a good Documentary on the subject that goes into how blockchain works and why it doesn't work.
A little bit of friction can sometimes be a good thing. At the moment the mentality is to rely on AI as if it was a panacea for everything, and jobs are being lost that shouldn't have gone (there was a
Change is an inevitable, but well managed change takes longer and makes fewer disasters along the way; that's what the Unions are aiming for. Their power in the UK is significant, but not overwhelming enough to stop the march of progress.
Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won.
