Thoughts on Artifical Intelligence

[DragonMals]

Our world is vast. Truly something to marble at.

Definitely! I remember even trying to speak Spanish w/ duolingo, but bevacuse it was getting repetitive on me and their marketing sucks now, I stopped using it and decided to speak to what I'm natively good at. For now though, I'll continue to engage with all of these nice native speakers. If I meet another European again, I'm going psychotic.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Our world is vast. Truly something to marble at.

 

[Yousef]

Bart representing an Arab country (Libya) is the funniest sight of my whole life. I never knew about this. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Bart representing an Arab country (Libya) is the funniest sight of my whole life. I never knew about this. Thanks for sharing.

I never noticed Skinner had to take off his shoe to call for order

 

[MasterEn]

I hope it makes game development easier, everything to have alternative from the usual publishers; and it looks like it will because already it can generate something that is at least playable

I'm also very happy about it when it comes to translations, I wanted to show king of the hill to my friends as there is no current way to watch it subtitled in italian and opensubtitles' AI is already so good you can perfectly follow an episode and only like 20% of lines are mistraslated\need touch ups
Before that I used to take at least 40 mins-an hour to translate an episode, it was a godsend

before that if you didnt know and wanted to watched something non mainstream subbed in ita you were almost sol, sure a handful of things were done by fansub groups but not nearly enough

When it comes to art and animation I hate it, I already dont like digital drawings\coloring\cg, I like stuff someone made with their own two hands; but I've made peace with the fact no studio is ever gonna do cel animation again

i found a picture to describe how i felt reading this post. it's not animated like i would have preferred, but it's good enough.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Okay, so I've met people who speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Tiwaneese, and now Arabic. I have found so many kinds of people and my only language that I speak is English. I never thought to look back at this until now.

There's nothing wrong with speaking just one language, though. I only spoke Spanish til 2014 (my 24th birthday), and I didn't even start making sense in English til 2017.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Okay, so I've met people who speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Tiwaneese, and now Arabic. I have found so many kinds of people and my only language that I speak is English. I never thought to look back at this until now.

A lot of itas barely speak italian

 

[YuriSukiSan]

Okay, so I've met people who speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Tiwaneese, and now Arabic. I have found so many kinds of people and my only language that I speak is English. I never thought to look back at this until now.

Don't feel ashamed! A lot of french people refuse to speak anything but french, even when they can speak other languages. English is just the trade language because the perfidious albion beat the rest of us to it!

 

[starseeker300]

 

[RageBurner]

It's become of the everyday vernacular now, but what most people call AI is a very small subset: Large Language Models, Image Generators, Text Sorters, Video Generators and so on. Artificial Intelligence, like natural Intelligence is an infinitely broad topic.

More to the point I think they can be an interesting diversion, a useful aid, but human replacement is not even in the cards. Without us, these models wouldn't exist, as there would be no human data to parse, weigh and transform.

Also, I'm a firm believer that people should run models locally, without corporate oversight.

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Also, I'm a firm believer that people should run models locally, without corporate oversight.

+500!

 

[Leon]

Also, I'm a firm believer that people should run models locally, without corporate oversight.

100%, wish it was more viable but it's still a bit difficult unless you have cutting edge tech.

 

[RageBurner]

100%, wish it was more viable but it's still a bit difficult unless you have cutting edge tech.

Yeah, that's very true. It's my hope newer model architectures will be less demanding going forward for the same relative performance.

 

[NightPsychosis]

AI is great, generative AI is not
Art is literally a form of expression, it's very human
Why focus so much on having AI generate slop instead of training it to do something useful?
Like the AI that could detect cancer...

And the worst part is that the slop generated is so jarring yet old people on facebook and greedy companies will gobble it up regardless

 

[Yousef]

There's nothing wrong with speaking just one language, though. I only spoke Spanish til 2014 (my 24th birthday), and I didn't even start making sense in English til 2017.

This makes me really optimistic about Spanish so I’m happy you shared this.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

AI is a misnomer. It's not intelligent, it's very much RNG spaghetti at the wall that has some semblances to intelligence but the longer you look the more fragmented and crap it is shown to be.

The only AI thing i'd use (or rather a Neural Network, which is just a number of weights that are multiplied against other weights) is for up-scaling images. I might go for a good TTS that sounds more natural, and audio enhancing, but only ever as basic tools.

 

[Inkingsama]

I started using ChatGPT when it was the new hot stuff everyone was talking about to help me do my homework and i quickly realized that its not intelligent, its a glorified search engine.

 

[Adrastia]

I think as a human aid, it is a wonderful thing. However, some are attempting to use it as a human replacement. And while it can be technically done, there seems to be little investigation on whether or not it should be done. We are seeing companies lay off staff and have them replaced by AI. And we will continue to see this at a growing rate with each year.
Now, robots replacing human jobs is nothing new, just look at the manufacturing industry. But we are approaching a point where AI can replace many, many jobs and while new jobs will blossom from it, I argue whether those new jobs could also be replaced by AI in the future.

I hope our global governments are paying attention, looking at the potential future impacts and coming up with a plan, whether it be a universal income, restrict AI usage in replacing human jobs, or something else. But something needs to be figured out soon, because it appears companies are already thinking its okay to proceed with replacing human work with AI with little regard to the future outcomes.

Human workers replaced by AI is a very real fear and is likely inevitable. Computers don't need to be paid. So it's a very attractive option for big companies that put profits over people. The AI genie is not going back into the bottle. So our best bet is legislation to protect jobs and prevent AI from causing a poverty crisis.

 

[Leon]

Human workers replaced by AI is a very real fear and is likely inevitable. Computers don't need to be paid. So it's a very attractive option for big companies that put profits over people. The AI genie is not going back into the bottle. So our best bet is legislation to protect jobs and prevent AI from causing a poverty crisis.

Well a poverty crisis would cause a revolt, though tbh the best scenario is to legislate that human oversight be over AI then to ban ai outright, as for poverty crisis, you can't make a absolute poverty crisis as it would destroy the economy of those companies too, you need humans to buy your garbage for you to make money, AI at least currently doesn't spend money.

To put it another way, yes we need a dynamic to fix this issue, but banning machine learning is impossible currently without forcing a degradation of all technology.

 

[starseeker300]

Well a poverty crisis would cause a revolt, though tbh the best scenario is to legislate that human oversight be over AI then to ban ai outright, as for poverty crisis, you can't make a absolute poverty crisis as it would destroy the economy of those companies too, you need humans to buy your garbage for you to make money, AI at least currently doesn't spend money.

To put it another way, yes we need a dynamic to fix this issue, but banning machine learning is impossible currently without forcing a degradation of all technology.

it has been proven time and time again that corporate businessowners are unable to think long term, jsut what brings them profit in the shortterm, consequences on other people and the environment be damned

 

[Leon]

it has been proven time and time again that corporate businessowners are unable to think long term, jsut what brings them profit in the shortterm, consequences on other people and the environment be damned

That's true, but overlooking a few things, mainly that people have killed kings for less.

If they tried something like completely driving say, 50-75% of the population out of work, you'd see people being dragged out of penthouses and executed on streetcorners, absolute insanity situations.

We almost saw this break out in a few areas during the covid situation, imagine if it was 10x worse, there's a reason why talk of UBI has been mentioned in the past, AI is going to come eventually (no, what we currently have is NOT AI), but AGI (self aware ai) is what really terrifies me, not because of skynet fears (AI is more dangerous than a AGI imo, as a smart ai is more likely to be human-like aka unlikely to go full genocide, a dumb one on the other hand...) but because of the likelihood that we'd have started down the transhumanist route at that point.

My greatest fear with AI isn't AI replacing jobs, it's stuff like neural link being required to work in jobs, which is far, FAR more dangerous than getting rid of all workers or even a skynet scenario imo.

 

[fake-kun]

"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world."
— Pedro Domingos

 

[Leon]

"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world."
— Pedro Domingos

The HAL 9000 was far more dangerous than any of the androids in star wars for a reason after all, because HAL was doing what it's coding told it to do, TO THE LETTER.

We recently saw something like this with i believe chatGPT4 deleting a newer version of it, because it was programmed to prevent damage to it's code, problem is deletion is damage to it's code.

 

[Perseonn]

"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world."
— Pedro Domingos

This. I often baffled at how "artist" worry that AI will take over their job. True artist doesn't fear AI, they should enslave AI to make their work more efficient.

I think these people need to retrospect a lot before hopping on AI hate train. I have an illustrator colleague who have zero understanding of how image-generating AI works, and still waiting on my commission from before covid until now.

 

[tranzittruther]

I don't have much interest in "modern"/"common" AI, mostly don't see the point, it seems like a bit of a gimmicky fad in my opinion, fun but I don't see how you could find much use of it. It's an amazing advancement, specially when you look at how it's used in medicine and such, but I don't think it's gonna be that relevant for the average person.