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Then here we are. AI apocalypse. Something of note. I've started to pay more attention to canned goods. Soups with lentils and so forth.

Please tell me this is not true.

I'm also an optimist but the crash is imminent. I hope I am wrong.

I totally concur. I'm almost lost for words at this stage. I need me some land to grow vegetables on and that's about it. Maybe some chickens. Every single day brings more despair (and not the prosperity we were promised).

What are we for, I ask? What the hell are we now. Chatters to LLMs now? Is this our future? It really is starting to feel like it now.

Nice so we're getting closer to Black Mirror in real life.

Here is the history:

https://youtu.be/6ofnDdi-vfw?is=y9ccxKyAQfqiPIQs

My friends, this is the single most hilarious thread I have ever experienced on the Interwebs. I am deeply grateful to have found this. I feel like my life is now complete.

This is hilarious and I miss numberwang. Also, the history of numberwang. And everything to do with numberwang. It was the most prescient sport back in the day.

I'm glad that someone has stepped up to revive the legacy of numberwang.

And I got reprimanded by some rando pretending to be a mod for my previous comment. What is actually going on here?

Thank you. Simple misunderstanding and I'm stupid I think. Or the font busted my brain.

Enshittification is the new normal, unfortunately.

Interesting. I thought you were a mod but you're not. I'm sure there are better ways to spend your time.

And by the way I like, read and upvoted OP's article. I'm starting to feel like a reprimanded student at this point and it's a bit weird to be honest.

I did read but perhaps put too much emphasis on difficulty of reading rather than responding to the article. My bad.

I wasn't really complaining. I was responding to the OP. The font thing was just an aside but fine I'll take this into consideration going forward.

I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you.

Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up.

Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it?

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth.

The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (and possibly others) it's just not good for blogging methinks.

Precisely. Kind of reminds me of "Hoover" or "Kleenex". Coca cola even. It has brand equity which means it's not going away any time soon.

Albeit way slower.

I'm pretty sure that if you put a few LLMs, agents, or anything into a room together without outside access, and get them to learn off of each other, you'll end up with gibberish, nonsensical garbage and definitely nothing magical will happen. Delirium, oblivion, dementia and so on...

Agreed. JPG is the most popular format for photography. PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges. It can be "compressed" via dithering and quantization.

GIF is there... because it will always be there because it's just a hit that will never go away. It's also lossless (when discounting colour depth).

The new formats are interesting webp, avif, JXL and so on.

Jpeg classic is the clear winner IMHO and will probably never be less relevant than the new fancier formats. JPG even does text and sharp edges, reds, and so on well if you tell your process to take into account chroma subsampling!

It's magic and it puts food on my table.

I think the answer is, that's always been Google's business and not much has really changed. Advertising accounts for about 78% of their total revenue.

Love this. Can we also have an environmental cost calculator somehow?

I'm working on an AI to design AI apocalypse bunkers but I'm fearful that the agents will escape to ensure success of the product.

I know we could easily code this by scraping but I would like to see an official REST API for this inspired service.

Well that's a great use of taxpayer money.

Great question. Reminds me of social networks, but this is in the physical space. It's pretty hard to wrap my head around it.

Honestly an incredible and educational video. The sheer effort of what went into this is astounding.

All my TVs are LG and I bought a fancy one for my mother and sisters. Now I'm having nightmares and trying to figure out what the hell to do.

I fully agree with this. I'm waiting for you to not wait for the others to slow down. I will sit and wait.

Fun fact: IKEA is a plural. One element of an IKEA is referred to as an IKEUM.