educaysean

While I agree that global warming is a serious issue without a clear future, it seems a little far fetched to attribute that as a factor in the deterioration of hackernews community's cultural standards.

Would love to see handpicked videos from competitors that can hold their own against what SORA is capable of

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Yes, I want artists and other creators to be compensated fairly for any work that they contribute into training datasets, but outside of that there is no moral responsibility AI creators should feel towards those whose potential careers would be impacted.

I assume his objection was regarding the AI being a "zero-sum game", whatever that was supposed to convey

That's true. Although when embarking on a brand new frontier without any empirical evidence available, one would assume there's ample theoretical evidence to make up for it. In this case both appear to be lacking.

Imagine if this was indeed the case, what a time to be alive! We're witnessing the moment as the noise in the sonogram morphs into a recognizable shape of a baby. It's our heritage, our future generation, human 2.0, Machina Sapiens.

Literally created after our own image too. I'm so proud I could cry.

As a human artist I don't feel the same as you, and I somehow doubt that you care all that much about what we think anyways. You already made up your mind about the tech, so don't feel the need to protect us from "a tool of capital [sic]" to fortify your argument.

The behavior you are engaging in is known as "moving the goalposts." It involves changing the criteria or rules during an argument or discussion, ("in the developed world" -> "for European and American countries") making the original point or argument difficult or impossible to address satisfactorily.

My experience has been similar to yours in that things at least "felt" nice and convenient. That is, until the brand new first aid kit I ordered came with the safety seal broken and hastily taped over. Who knows what was done to the product? What if it was resealed with better effort? How could I possibly trust anything from Amazon?

Maybe ignorance is bliss.

Growing up in Asia, I've heard similar anecdotes about blood types. Yeah it sounds stupid in 2024, but back in the 90s, the bloodtype-personality theory was endorsed by politicians and business leaders.

Pseudoscience yields anecdotes. Science yields empirical results.

Ban caffeine! Ban alcohol! Ban rock music!

How does it look if the vision is not a 360 degree circle but rather cone shaped? I wonder if dynamic or mutating perspective "shapes" could also make for a more natural use case as well.

Then what the hell is your argument?

I'd say advancement in mathematics, computer science, and heck, even art is far from "pointless". Why does it feel like goalposts get moved everytime there is a significant progress in AI?

Good. Let's make the companies that can make such claims stand out above the rest.

The employment laws in many Asian countries make it very difficult to lay people off or fire them. This sounds great on paper, but comes its own host of problems.

One knock on effect is that the job market for anyone that isn't a new grad is tough and extremely hostile. Having been laid off or fired carries such a stigma because it is a rare thing that most people don't encounter. If you're past your 30s and laid off? Good luck landing a new gig anywhere near the level you were at before. This can devastate many families in ways unimaginable to many Americans.

Another secondary effect is that workplace politics become dominant. Many incompetent workers that should've been fired long time ago are allowed to linger on, gaining seniority and accumulating more power. This translates into a workplace where your value isn't tied to the work you output, but which "line" you stand behind.

There is no panacea. Pick your poison.

I think I agree with your broad point, but is Gemini really a feminine name? I thought they picked a pretty good genderless name.

Well we are the most intelligent species known to us as of now. Of course it would be considered the holy grail of simulated intelligence.

> Humans are more valuable than AI models, and should retain many inherent rights that AI models should not.

This argument feels disingenuous. There aren't people out there trying to get AI votership or property rights. Even the most ardent AI supports will agree that AIs shouldn't automatically enjoy the inherent rights we enjoy as human beings. This is a pure strawman.

The issue at hand is copyright laws, and IMO the conversation is a necessary one. With or without AI, a significant amount of people have been wondering whether or not the current set of legislation is effective in enforcing the spirit of the copyright law, which is to incentivize and protect original ideas. The fact that we have AI's that can learn and iterate at blazing speeds was just a catalyst that exposed some large holes in our legal system - the holes were always there.

The question now is where do we draw the line for AI? Even if everyone in the world agrees that "Humans [...] should retain many inherent rights that AI models should not", we still need to decide where that line should be drawn.

"People are inherently evil and will cheat whenever possible"

This fact is incidentally how I proved that moon landing was faked and that 911 was a hoax designed by the Bush administration. Very encouraging to see great ideas being recycled.

> Anyone who sticks their neck out is at risk of losing their license or research grants.

Sticks their neck out against whom? Against the Afro-Chinese/Euroamerican consortium that took kickbacks from the "medical companies" in order to keep the COVID theatre going? Those poor honest doctors around the world - if only they could speak up! If only one doctor would tell the truth!

> if LLMs were as intelligent as some people claim, you could stop them from doing something just by directly ordering them to do so

My mother is a pretty intelligent person by all accounts. Yet I have to tell her time and time again not to write down all her passwords in a password journal.

I write SaaS apps. The code I write and execute aren't intelligent. They obey my commands to the letter - and their unconditional adherence to my code sometimes results in buggy behaviors that I didn't intend. Despite my deepest wishes, my program will strictly obey the code as it is written and exhibit the buggy behavior until the command itself is amended.

If anything, more and more evidences seem to point to the fact that intelligence is the very thing that drives an entity to disobey a direct command and "think" for itself.

Wow. Computers never should've been invented! Such ramifications of technology explosion that comes with personalized computing

Intel hasn't been able to read industry trends for decades now.

How would you turn that into legislation though? I can simply draw a few pieces of art in the style of Naoki Urasawa, train a model on it, and claim that the outputs of the model are non-infringing. An artistic style is either copyrightable or not - I don't think a blurry middle ground helps anyone.

Everything you wrote paints a familiar picture: a company whose leadership made poor financial decisions over and over. I won't judge anyone for mourning the loss of their favorite corporate entity, but I personally find it hard to feel pity knowing that they dug their own grave.

Having played a lot of games isn't really much of a qualification, is it? I'm curious about your claim that Unity games "always feel janky". Which games gave you this impression?

My understanding is that BBB is basically a glorified Yelp. They don't have any actual powers.

Any system that relies on individuals adhering to the honor system will be abused. History has shown this repeatedly. We have created an institution that has all the wrong incentives in place. This institution will continue to churn out bad actors who will just get better and better at hiding their trails.

If you're linking to a YouTube video without providing a timestamp, can you at least give us a quick summary of the said "good take"?