DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 days ago:
They’re just not that familiar with the place.
- Comment on Sunday mood 4 days ago:
Fold the laundry and do the cleaning. How is rain stopping that?
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
Depends what you mean by AI…
…but I guess currently the main difference is that the dot-com boom basically was the internet. It was huge but we thought it was small.
The AI boom is small, but we think it’s huge.
We think it’s going to replace, invade, and take over everything all at once. It’s not. The models take work to be constrained. The training data takes time to find and cleanse. The applications and use cases have to be married to good data sets and modeled to functional outcomes.
We thought the internet was just people with journals, blogs, and geocities pages… It turned out to be ebay, youtube, reddit, instagram, tiktok, Facebook, Amazon.
Right now we think AI will be in everything doing everyone’s jobs …but it will probably be a bunch of smaller tools. Translators, cancer finders, copy editors, face scanners, better security cameras, better search engines…
The applications are still uncertain, but seem kind of smaller than we first thought. Ubiquitous (probably) but not larger than life.
The dot com boom was larger than life.
But I think the biggest difference is that AI will most likely need the internet. The dot com thing WAS the internet.
“AI” is kind of subordinate, or seems smaller in some sense. It’s more like lots of small changes. They’ll each make life a little easier, but it will all feel separate rather than some giant face in the sky that speaks intelligence into society or controls the world.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Start a group that’s anti-capitalist, anti-traditional marriage, or atheist in America and it now counts as a terrorist organization…
…so the rules on posting memes are probably pretty light in comparison.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
I literally said “I don’t care either way”.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
You either do it diligently because you want to dream more, or you don’t because you’re fine “not dreaming”.
I don’t care either way, but intentionality and belief are a factor.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Keep a dream journal, eventually you’ll start remembering them.
- Comment on Finally I understand it 1 week ago:
Could be shit play.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your first idea for a costume 1 week ago:
The season for burning Trump effergies.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
She’s a wealthy British lady …so yes, a sociopath.
- Comment on Labour bars journalists from party conference 1 week ago:
There is no left and right, there is only class politics.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
Hans Asperger was Austrian, not American.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
Why would autism be limited to Americans? Do you have to apply “exceptionalism” propaganda to everything?
- Comment on Lead 2 weeks ago:
Also feels weird that they don’t have him in a T-shirt.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Just as the mocroplastics are getting into everything!
A nice dose of synthetic hormones!
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, most major brands. They’re often used in meeting rooms, lobbies, and public places. Not to mention that you can get LED video walls.
- Comment on Cooking 3 weeks ago:
Why does it look like the pasta sauce was added after the fact then? Like it doesn’t even look like it’s been sitrred in at all, it’s just kind of sitting there.
- Comment on Need a good pair of Scarpas too 3 weeks ago:
Okay, you have the sniper assassin job.
- Comment on Cooking 3 weeks ago:
I think you CAN get black pasta, so I’m guessing this is that.
- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know why you’re saying \s to a literal fact. Yes age is a form of oxidation, yes that’s why anti-oxidants are said to prevent/slow aging.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 4 weeks ago:
Nah, the correct business model is to have a system that’s easy to develop for to the point that it has a large and exciting open source and homebrew community attached (which you encourage with events and competitions), and you’re just basically selling them hardware, code, merch, tutorials, assets, and getting a cut of their game sales.
…the you also release your own games, and later spin off the IPs into globally recognized characters and franchises.
- Comment on winter fans 5 weeks ago:
Probably the mention of winter. The Southern Hemisphere has just left Winter… Also I think they’re driving on the left side of the road in the picture.
- Comment on Metal 5 weeks ago:
Any indigenous person watching the society crop up on their land.
- Comment on holup 5 weeks ago:
Might be a good hack for getting out of bed in the morning.
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 5 weeks ago:
Work existed before mechanical time keeping, and it sounds like it was waaaaay better than:
- Comment on Schrödinger's Pedo 5 weeks ago:
What the fuck are you talking about? There’s literally victim statements by multiple victims saying he raped them when they were children.
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 month ago:
My brain is yelling “AI image!”
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 1 month ago:
Whoa TV producers have sex brained politics and just want shows with mass appeal, you don’t say?
Doesn’t change the fact Voyager still did better on this issue.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 1 month ago:
Does the question: “Did you somehow forget 7 of 9?” read “let’s limit the discussion to judging the women based on costumes alone” or say “Lets judge the character’s strengths based on why TV producers had them introduced”?
No, the discussion - and even the article is about how Enterprise is claiming to be “a man’s man’s version of Star Trek” a “boy’s club” and feel lucky they got in before Me Too happened.
So reiterating “Yeah, but TV producers really wanted Jeri Ryan to look sexy” doesn’t change the topic.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 1 month ago:
The question was did I forget about 7 of 9…
…the answer is no, and that Voyager came before Enterprise and wasn’t nearly as sexist. There’s just no two ways around that.
Voyage wins hands down, leaving Enterprise still being written about as a masculine “Boys Club” or frat house version of Star Trek.