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    Social Media's Effects On Our Minds & Lives

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    On 3/11/2024 at 4:51 PM, o00o said:

    all these boomers (or bots)  falling for very obviously GPT generated images:

     

    Bots responding to AI generated content on internet is some weird cyberpunk shit. I find it somehow hilarious.

    Is the era of social media going to finally end when there's nothing left except AIs talking to each other?

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    Now Reading

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    I read Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled without having any kind of prior knowledge about what kind of book it is and was very confused 👍 At about page 200 I started to realize that this isn't just a preface to the actual plot but there is no conventional plot at all. If you've ever had a nightmare where you need to do something important but all kinds of small obstacles just fall into your path to distract you then this is pretty much that in a book form.👍

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    I dug out my old GameCube from storage and F-Zero GX is such a blast. The best futuristic racing game, maybe? So unforgiving also.. I can't pass all the cups without getting a game over anymore, even on the novice difficulty :catsuicide: Also it took me forever to finish the story mode back in the day and I seem to have lost the memory card where that save was.. Practice mode it is then for a while.

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    Dostrotime [2024]

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    This seems to be one of those albums that get better on each listening.

    Holorform and Domelash are my favorites so far. Especially when Domelash goes crazy towards the end. Holorform has some underlying prog-rock vibes, like Pekka Pohjola, maybe?

    Still not completely sold on the Arkteon tracks, they feel kind of out of place, but alright.

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    AI - The artificial intelligence thread

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    1 hour ago, Satans Little Helper said:

    I have some pretty good experiences with using chatGPT (4,0) for writing functions so far though! But I've noticed it's a bit of an art to ask the right questions.

    Basically, the idea is that ChatGPT could give the right answer/code, IF it is being asked the right question. So you're searching for the right questions. And be careful to not ask too many questions in one session. Because the longer the chat, the worse ChatGPT performs. After a while, it does become rubbish. So basically, if you haven't got a good solution after three questions, you're better off starting over anew with a different approach. As opposed to keep on trying in the same chat. Because it will hallucinate after a while.

    A while ago a got an invitation for the Google Foobar challenge (which is a story in and of itself: https://itsmohitt.medium.com/things-you-should-know-about-google-foobar-invitation-703a535bf30f). And without much Python-experience I got ChatGPT to write the solutions successfully. After a bunch of successful challenges, I got asked if it was OK if a Google recruiter would approach me. But it ended there, because Google ended the Foobar challenge (https://foobar.withgoogle.com)

    That was just last month or so. Around February. Right around the time Google pushed their *woke* Gemini generative AI. And lost considerable value in the stock markets. 😕

    And I guess they noticed themselves it was fairly easy to pass the Google Foobar challenge without much programming knowledge. (I do have a background in AI/Computer Science though. I'm just not into programming. I'd rather have ChatGPt generate the code for me)

    Possibly a combination of the two: they need to fire a lot of people, and their particular way of looking for the right people wasn't working because of ChatGPT. 

    Well, yes, this is kind of what I meant that when you have well defined problems like you would get in a coding challenge or CS class it gives decent answers. But the real world problems when you're developing software and systems are hardly ever so well defined and everything is kind of murky and undocumented and ill-defined, possibly with inaccurate documentation that no one bothered to update. The kind of algorithmic part is usually fairly straightforward, it's all the technical details and buggy hardware and software that are the pain in the ass.

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    AI - The artificial intelligence thread

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    4 minutes ago, o00o said:

    did you try to feed a custom GPT4 actual documentation in PDF form? You can feed it couple of books and make it look in there before answering 

     

    GitHub Code Pilot also just received an update that made it much better and now you can actually talk to it instead of just letting it generate code

    The problems that arise are from undocumented limitations and it seems a lot of times the company who made the system didn't even seem to know they exist. Sometimes they knew but left the limitations undocumented for whatever the reason. Some use cases we have are so exotic that there are zero hits in Google. It might be no one even thought of trying to use it the way we do.

    It just all comes down to lots of detective work and trying to figure out what happens in the proprietary black box when I feed it different things.

    I can't use ChatGPT, Co-Pilot or similar open for all AIs at work because of security reasons.

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    AI - The artificial intelligence thread

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    On 2/29/2024 at 7:10 PM, ignatius said:

    It’s crazy how hard they’re going after content creation and the arts. I guess they all hope to license their Ai to streaming services and YouTube makers. 
    I think Sean was right when he said in the twitch streams that “there’s gonna be so much shit art..”

    it’s already there and is only going to increase the din of noise. 

    I think probably the AI is mostly going to be used this kind of very low effort stock music, graphics and videos. Like the youtubers are using the same few stock music pieces that you can fucking hear everywhere so if they add a bit of variety with AI, then just go ahead by all means. And quality wise it's not going to be a huge loss if some corporate graphics in a Powerpoint presentation are going to be AI generated instead of the most bland stock photos they could find. Just type in "women eating salads while laughing" or "ethnically diverse group of middle-class people celebrating in an office" to generate the millionth image of that type.

    I don't think it will have much breakthrough yet as Art that is consumed as Art. Like a music album that someone intentionally enjoys. But who knows? There's already that whole vocaloid scene out there..

    As a software engineer I fucking wish I could just let AI generate the code for me by describing the problem, and we actually have an access to to a kind of "corporate" version of an AI at work but it sucks so much at programming. It can only solve the easiest most generic problems you can find in a computer programming class. Like, whoop-de-doo, another implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm but now in Rust. I wish my job was just solving basic programming puzzles all day, but it's actually mostly battling with undocumented idiosyncrasies of different frameworks and systems that the AI has no knowledge of. Well, I can still use it to flesh out bug reports or whatever.

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    Films Recently Watched

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    I watched the Boxer's Omen, a 1983 Hong Kong occult film.

    And this is the strangest movie I have seen in the last few years. It is fucking bonkers. You might think the trailer up there is some kind of collection of just the craziest scenes. No, I can assure you the movie is even crazier. Everything is so bizarre: the plot, the effects, the camera work, the rhythm of the movie, the sound design, the acting, the locations. And it barely has any quiet moments. It's just 1 hour 45 minutes of madness. Like a nightmare you would have after 4 days of binge drinking. I would imagine that if David Lynch and Terry Gilliam got together and took some acid and decided to make a kung-fu movie it would be something like this.

    Rating: Flying severed tentacle head / 10.

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