jacksilver

@jacksilver@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like homogenization of art. The filter pays no attention to the original art style and just conforms it to nividias Ai style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t jumped into the whole agentic side of things as I find LLMs consistently fail at lower level stuff.

  Everyone says it’s great at prototyping or writing documents, etc, but I think that’s just cause people have low standards. When coding I find that it quickly messes things up or lacks good quality control (which you only notice if you’re familiar with the domain). For writing it’s fine, but the tone and language always feels off and certainly doesn’t sound like me.

  Either way, I would suggest playing around with them to see how they fit into how you do things. I think we’re starting to see things finally slow down on new implementations, and they aren’t going away, so it may be a good time to see if all the fuss is worth it to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The underlying issues, in my opinion, regarding LLMs is their indeterministic nature. Even zeroing out the temperature (randomness of outputs), you can get significantly different results between two almost identical texts.

  However, building out an ecosystem supporting new technology is a fairly common progression. If you compare it to the internet things like browser caches, CDNs (content delivery networks), code minifiers, etc. are all ways to help combat latency (a fundamental problem for the internet).

  As for the effectiveness of these solutions, RAGs do help a lot when generating text against a select corpus. Its what allows the linked sources in things like ChatGPT and Googles AI results. It’s also what a lot of companies are using for searching their support pages/etc. It’s maybe not quite as good as speaking to a person, but is faster.

  Similarly, the reasoning models and managing the models “context” both have shown demonstrable improvements for models in benchmarking.

  I’m not sure I personally believe this makes LLMs a replacement for humans in most situations, but it at least demonstrates forward progress for GenAI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you may be mixing a couple of things together, but I’ll take a crack at this.

  When you get an Ai generated response from a search engine, this is usually a modified RAG (retrieval augmented generation) approach. How this works is that the content from web pages are already pre-processed into embeddings (numerical representations of the text). When you perform a search, your search text is turned into an embedding and compared (numerical similarity) to the websites to get the most related content for your search. That means that the LLM only parses and processes a very small subset of the returned websites to generate its response.

  Another element you might be asking about is how can these agentic AI systems handle larger tasks (things like OpenClaw). That is a bit more complicated and dependent on the systems design, but basically boils down to two things. The first is the “reasoning models” first break concepts into smaller tasks meaning the LLM only has to worry about a subset of a larger task. Secondly, a lot of these systems will periodically merge all past context into a compressed state that the LLM can handle (basically summaries of summaries) or add them to a database for future/faster reference.

  At the end of the day, your understanding of the limits of LLM are correct, all the progress we’ve really seen with LLMs (over the past couple of years) has been the creation of systems to work around their limitations. The base technology isn’t getting much better, but the support around it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the prequel (at least it looks like it’s tied to this game) called Demon Turf. The animation was really interesting and the world building was cool, but the platforming itself was only okay and some of the boss battles just felt broken. Hopefully they learned from that game to make this one even better!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest Phil’s just done a bad job at the helm or maybe wasn’t empowered to do the things that needed to be done. Everything since the xbox360 has been weak from Microsoft, although Sony has really only held on due to some banger first party games.

  Nintendo continues to understand that you need to offer something different in the console space to remain relevant. While the steam deck (and other handheld) are coming for the switch, they at least offer something unique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, at that point a lot of games are also gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be honest with ourselves combocore is really just another phrase for rhythm games, which let’s you aggregate things like guitar hero (rythmncombos) and DMC (actioncombos), as it’s all about hitting buttons at the right time interval. Surprisingly many darksouls also fall into the combocore/rythmn category - sekiro and Lies of P (with their parrying/dodging timing) which we’ll now call soulcombos.

  Now we just need to start promoting this through the steam tags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the “rouge lite” category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.

  I think it may just be a bit like “RPG” or “Action” that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, if your preference is pixel graphics then Blasphemous 1 & 2 would probably be your pace if you haven’t played them.

  To me, the GoW gameplay looked a little to heavy and stiff (especially for it being GoW).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think this looks good, then the newly announced castlevania game will blow you away - www.konami.com/games/castlevania/…/en-us/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  Are there fighting games with real people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also such a detriment to sports. In the US they relaxed sports betting laws a while back and it’s ruined watching sports on the tv (and in some ways in person).

  Its also been frustrating to watch sports betting scandals continue to pop up over and over again. The most ridiculous is the recent NCAA basketball point shaving, where a bunch of players on college teams (even low ranked ones) were purposefully rigging games to make millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.

  But I think the real issue is “looks good” is very subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly we’re in the minority, but I did not think it sounded good at all. It’s a hard event (even acoustically), and he clearly was singing live, but it felt like he was struggling to keep up with the beat. Although I’m also very hit or miss with rap, so I’m also probably biased.

  The message and showmanship was good and regardless of how it sounded, I think people will talk about this performance for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its both a huge event and platform so it makes sense why artists would want to perform at the superbowl.

  As for why he was picked, I think I’ve read some reports that the NFL is really trying to grow the sport in South America. Between the fact that they’ve saturated the US market and that every attempt to expand in Europe has been rough, I think they realize they don’t have many other choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean an obvious break in the decades was covid. There has been a fair amount of shift in a lot of different things pre/post covid that maybe doesn’t stick out due to the gradual shift, but will definitely be more apparent to anyone looking back on the 2010-2030 time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep half expecting to hear ICE took her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.

  That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of my post is that it is “a metric”. The original post was showing that knife “crimes” were going down over a period of time while rhetoric about knife crimes were up.

  However, knife crimes may not be down based on other metrics. So yes, while it’s good that less people are being hospitalized, that doesn’t mean the argument being made in the OP is valid.

  I’m also not trying to take sides, just noticing that the graph on knife attacks wasn’t telling the whole story. It’s very possible that the increased rhetoric on knife attacks leads to more people reporting even though crime is down. Generally there has been a trend in the world to over report crime, typically done to help push legislation or political parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always find it interesting when you’re only provided a portion of the data in a chart, as this shows “hospital Admissions” and not total incidents involving a knife.

  If you look at other reports on the issue it seems like incidents involving a knife are still high (and don’t follow the trend from the graph) even though hospital Admissions and deaths are down - Source.

  That could mean that reporting is up while crime is down, or could mean that less incidents are ending violently, but it’s not as clear a picture as the initial graph indicates.

  Note: the source is for the UK in general, but other London based reports show similar. I chose that article because they seem fairly trustworthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it for your country's debt!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Printing money isn’t usually a good idea as it generally causes inflation/devaluation of the currency. So while the US could do it, the outcome would probably be devastating.

  In basic terms, the more of something you have the less valuable it becomes. This works for things like trading cards/collectibles, but also applies to money.

  A good real world example of this recently was the pandemic. Between reduced spending (due to be cooped up) and stimulus money (ppp loans, checks, etc.), a lot of Americans came out of the pandemic looking to spend. This huge surge in spending meant a lot of people fighting over a set amount of goods (since during the pandemic manufacturing took a hit). So high demand and low/constrained supply leads to rising prices. So while people have more money, that doesn’t necessarily mean they can buy more things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it might be like the Wii leading into the WiiU. Twilight Princess was originally going to be for the GameCube, but turned into a wii launch title and was followed by Skyward Sword late into the Wiis lifetime. That resulted in the WiiU never having its own Zelda, instead sharing BOTW with Switch during its release.

  So it’s possible with BOTW released with Switch and TOTK late into the switches lifetime that we’ll see the same thing happen on the switch 2 (and it won’t get an exclusive Zelda).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that Google (and AI research like this) pumps out a lot of work like this that shows amazing new advances. However, that doesn’t mean any of this is near ready.

  Here is a 2018 paper about using world models (a concept where a model is developing an understanding of a “world”) that used it to create an interactive Doom AI model - arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122 just to show that this stuff has been in the works for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was never the avacodo toast preventing millenials from buying a house. It was the $34 Billion they each spent every year on booze.

  If only they knew how to budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon recaps the DCEU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, sorry to ruin your day, but I did see it!

  Having watched young justice (and some other DC shows) I was familiar with the hero so checked it out. It was a decently fun movie for a somewhat lesser known hero. I think the weakest part was that, like most superhero movies, the big bad was a carbon copy of blue beetle (can’t recall if it was his arch nemesis Black Beetle or some other iteration).

  I’d say of the DCEU movies I’ve watched, it was one of the better ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the jump rope and volleyball moons in Mario Odyssey were pretty bad. They didn’t really connect to the gameplay and just felt tedious to get.