What about -1 ?

Or some binary search tree with an artificial height lol.

Makes me remember that old joke where a couple at couple counseling fucks all the time.

Been there done that.

Allende was like 50-60 years ago. Let’s talk about today? Say the nineties and onwards at least? But I feel you’re stuck with the Kremlin whataboutism and cannot see a good thing if any kind of bad thing happens, even if it was half a century ago+. Again, the idea of a “country” is very prevalent in your explanations IMO, which discredits your ideas IMO.

The UN? Lol, yeah sure, a police for everyone except for the powerful veto countries, how do you even think it should be ran?

But I think you have your fundamental ideas, and they are incompatible with mine it seems, so thanks for the chat but I’ll stop here.

Cheers

Yeah the MNIST dataset, fun times.

I don’t even know if we’re on the same page or if there is something we dabate, everything you say is totally valid IMO.

I have 10 years of game dev under my belt, and I wonder where your idea that I think A* is AI come from.

Do you know how machine learning works? Please tell me about this new AI that isn’t based on it!

Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re not wrong, Dijkstra isn’t AI, techbros are trying to shovel “AI” into everything for the buzz, but you’re explaining yourself a bit haphasardly IMO.

4 day work week is fantastic you have time for the dentist, library books and everything else so easily 😍 and you’re right, for me at least, the holidays started like on day one!

I’m with you on a lot of things, but my angle is this:

If Russia, Iran, NK & China was democratic, the world police (the US, but now the EU is stepping up too because of the US president clown show) would need to do way less interventions in the world, just for the basic security of their people (they do bad things too I know that), and could like feed the people and so on.

I’m throwing in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, and a whole ton of other non democratic countries here. Before they let the people decide, we have to band together in the free world and do what we can to help them, if possible.

So no, we can’t become bohemian hippie countries just yet :-)

Or so I think.

Three weeks is what you need to really deconnect from a demanding work IMO.

No no, this is Super Power Shell (not compatible). /j

Interesting, my art friends, around 50% just love using generative AI for images to use, the other just don’t care. No one does digital art though, or not as their main style for what I know (acrylics, oil paint, gouache, aquarelle etc ).

I don’t like AI gen images because there is always tons of crap in colors and lighting, I guess for composition it could be useful but I don’t use images for that personally, so I like go on pinterest.co.kr with an ad blocker and use my imagination.

Yeah there is someone on a downvote spree lol, no problems & thanks for your post!

There is that pen that makes me write like that…

I just expressed that AI is good in some places, like research.

AI is machine learning. It was just called “machine learning” before every C-suit had to try to sell it.

I’m with you when it comes to shitty images, but there is interesting approaches too IMO, especially when they will get better, if they do. As for art, it’s just another tool in the toolbox. Painters treated photography similarly, and do you remember (if you’re old enough) when digital cameras became affordable and everyone and their grandma became “a photographer” and flooded the planet with soulless photos? I do 😅

Art is art, no machine will change that, but maybe it will help people get into the arts, with the cost of a lot of slop ofc. Which is cool IMO.

Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our holidays.

Soon to introduce Super Power Shell 4.0 (non compatible)

Well, it seems you only judge AI on large language models, not when it’s used in other ways like in research. I integrated AI (Tensorflow) in a massive project in 2016, it outperformed other AI at the time and makes real differences in particle detection. For example.

So just know that AI isn’t just chatgpt or midjourney, that’s the products people try to shove into everything and upsell.

I have to correct you here, machine learning (AI) is extremely important in research. There is just no doubt about it.

Is AI image generators beneficial for society? Probably, I have artist friends who use AI images to help them paint for example, but is it out weighing the cost? Dunno.

Is AI slop beneficial? Orobably not :-)

Well the USA is a democracy and Russia is and has always been an autocracy (with that little blip in the nineties). The USA doesn’t always value human life like you’d like but Russia outright uses, and has always used, people in slaughters, famins etc.

If you can’t see the difference then I do not want to try out your (anarchy?) solution…

Still interesting you can’t see your own country for what it is.