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I think it's typical to get a 5 year contract and having to renegotiate a new mortgage at the end of said contract. At least, it is here in Canada. Rate goes up, monthly payment goes up.

Links to what?

I’m sure most people are willing to acknowledge that there are good cops.

I have yet to see an instance of this that isn't downvoted into oblivion. I don't think the majority agree with you here.

Did you also rail against the phrase “black lives matter” because it didn’t address the nuance that other lives matter as well?

I think there's a pretty big difference between

1. "I believe X" + "I also believe Y", and
2. "I believe X" + "but I don't actually believe X"

I don't know about other fields, but we did do this for AI. It's all community-run, papers are freely available for everyone to read, and the cost of submission in a peer-reviewed venue is to review other papers. The publishers don't actually provide anything of value except name recognition and being "reputable", which they maintain through momentum.

We've already gone through "very", "truly", "really", "actually", and probably many more. I just don't think humans were meant to have an antonym for "figuratively". It's too much power for any single person to wield.

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

Those websites send you directly to Google, so they no longer have control of the web page when you're entering your password.

Ham licenses make sense. If you screw up, you ruin things for everyone, so you have to make sure everyone who transmits knows what they're doing. The problem is the elitism, and how many of them look down on anything more modern than vacuum tubes as not being real amateur radios.

Yes, but how does that negate its usefulness as a tool or a foundation to start from? I never made any assertion that AI is able to make connections or possess any sort of creativity.

It is useful. Never said it wasn't. I'm pointing out problematic uses of an otherwise good tool.

Maybe it's easier to think about this through the lens of the end goal. We want good art to exist. We want good art to continue being produced for the foreseeable future. What inhibits this from happening? If artists stop producing art and AI can't replace them, then we stop getting art. The point about current AI not being able to create the kind of art we care about is that we still need human artists. So how do we ensure that human artists continue producing? By making sure they get properly compensated for value they produce and that their work does not get used in a way that they don't like. I'm personally not a fan of forcing people to work, so my preferred solution would be to give artists what they want in exchange for their work.

There’s a common saying that there is no such thing as an original story, because all fiction builds on other fiction. Can you see how that would apply here? Just because thing A and thing B exist doesn’t mean that thing C cannot possibly be interesting or substantially different. The brainstorming potential of an AI with a significant dataset seems functionally identical to an artist searching for references on Google (or Pixiv).

I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. Are you saying that an interpolation between two existing artworks can still make interesting artwork? If so, then yes, but if that's all you're doing, it severely limits the space of art that you have access to compared to something that also interpolates with a human being's unique life experiences and is also capable of extrapolating by optimizing for the emotional cost function.

Whatever you decide to call it, the problem exists.

When you trace or use existing art as reference, you're using this to learn and not passing it off as your own design. Equivalently, when training an AI model, it's the same. I don't think the training part is a problem. The problem comes when producing work. A generative model will only produce things that are essentially interpolations of artworks it has trained on. A human artist interpolates between artworks they have seen from other artists, as well as their own lived experiences, and extrapolate by evaluating how some more avant garde elements tickle their emotions. Herein lies the argument that generative AI in its current state doesn't produce anything novel and just regurgitates what it has seen.

There's also the problem of "putting words in someone else's mouth". Everyone has a unique art style (to a certain extent), just like how everyone has a unique writing style, or a unique voice. I'll speak on voice first since more of us can relate to that. Having someone copy your voice to make it say things you did not say is something many will be very uncomfortable with. To an artist, art style and writing styles are the same.

The economic side is also a problem. And while I don't expect generative AI to go away, it can be done in a way that is fair to the people whose work have made it possible and allows them to continue doing what they do. We should be striving towards that.

Saying that AI is a tool like any other artists tool also doesn't refute OP's point about art theft.

We've already built machines that can surpass humans in many specialized domains. Why is it so hard to believe that we can put all of that together and have a machine surpassing us in all domains?

AI in the public space is a joke. It is all based off of the transformers library in one form or another. Go read the introduction page for the Transformers documentation on hugging face. It clearly states that it is incomplete and its intended use is as a simplified example code only. AI is enormously complex in its real capabilities. Most of the issues are due to the simplifications made to allow the ignorant public to use it.

Which page/passage are you referring to? I'm pretty sure you're misreading or misinterpreting something because Huggingface has a good chunk of the state of the art models implemented. They're complex in capabilities, but the implementations are incredibly simple, and that's part of why it's taken off the way it has.

I'll have to disagree with your stance on GitHub Copilot. It's a tool that's only useful if you're already comfortable with coding. If you weren't, you wouldn't be able to distinguish when it spits out trash and where it's actually useful.

Traffic dynamics are really interesting. Even after you clear the obstruction, the traffic jam remains and becomes a "ghost jam" that propagates backwards down the road until it eventually fizzles out.

Everyone's arms hang at different heights. There's no way to design a static bag that fits everyone.

Loop the handle around the back of your wrist to shorten them.

To me, it's mainly gluten content. Cake is fluffy while bread is more chewy. You can have sweet breads and savoury breads. I imagine you can have savoury cakes too, but I've never had so I don't know how good that would be.

My parents are obsessed with that store. I don't understand it. They keep telling me about how cheap everything is and buying me random junk. Everything has been exactly that. Junk.

I've always wondered how they expect people to answer those. I rarely recommend specific brands to people even if I really like them, so do I answer 1? Or are they secretly asking how much I like the product and I'm supposed to answer 10 even if I'd never make the recommendation?