MagicShel
@MagicShel@lemmy.zip
25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 10 hours ago:
We know that most of the closed source models are way more complicated, so let’s say they take 3 times the cost to generate a response.
This is completely arbitrary and supposition. Is it 3x “regular” response? I have no idea. How do you even arrive at that guess? Is a more complex prompt exponential more expensive? Linearly? Logarithmically? And how complex are we talking when system prompts themselves can be 10k tokens?
Generating an AI voice to speak the lines increases that energy cost exponentially. MIT found that generating a grainy, five-second video at 8 frames per second on an open source model took about 109,000 joules
Why did you go from voice gen to video gen? I mean I don’t know whether video gen takes more joules or not but there’s no actual connection here. You just decided that a line of audio gen is equivalent to 40 genres of video. What if they generate the text and then use conventional voice synthesizers? And what does that have to do with video gen?
If these estimates are close
Who even knows, mate? You’ve been completely fucking arbitrary and, shocker, your analysis supports your supposition, kinda. How many Vader lines are you going to get in 30 minutes? When it’s brand new probably a lot, but after the luster wears off?
I’m not even telling you you’re wrong, just that your methodology here is complete fucking bullshit.
It could be as low as 6500 joules (based on your statement) which changes the calculus to 60 lines per half hour. Is it that low? Probably not, but that is every bit as valid as your math and I’m even using your numbers without double checking you.
At the end of the day maybe I lose the bet. Fair. I’ve been wondering for a bit how they actually stack up, and I’m willing to be shown. But I suspect using it for piddly shit day to day is a drop in the bucket compared to all the mass corporate spam. Bit I’m aware it’s nothing but a hypothesis and I’m willing to be proven wrong. But not based on this.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 12 hours ago:
In going to bet your video card uses more energy than the AI while you play the game.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 2 days ago:
Sorry, mate. I dropped this.
#!/usr/bin/env bash - Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 days ago:
A sad reality is that a lot of the time when money is on the line people have to be hurt or even die before anything happens. Every regulation came from too many people being hurt by their absence. And we’ve rolled them back so now people are going to have to pay that human cost all over again in order to learn the lessons we already knew.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 2 days ago:
#Yo dawg.
#I heard you like comments.
#So I prefix every line with a hashtag so I can comment my comment while I comment.
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- Comment on The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind. 4 days ago:
My intuition would be to just let it go and enjoy the hilarity and let it correct itself. Sometimes the conversation the title creates is more interesting than the conversation about the article itself.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
I did view the site. My contention is that Google has changed the required SEO strategy, which this site is still working on figuring out. There have been similar complaints every time there has been a significant algorithm change. This one is just being blamed on AI. Maybe fairly, maybe not.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
I know this is about hating on AI, but this seems like a typical company relying on SEO tricks to drive traffic to their site so they can display ads hates when the SEO algorithm changes.
Good news: I’m already starting to see SEO experts giving advice on how to get cited by AI to drive traffic to your site, and for the first time the advice I’m seeing has more to do with providing quality content that answers the kinds of questions people tend to ask about your business domain.
I recognize the problems AI is bringing to search on both ends. AI generated content is making the already bad signal-to-noise ratio on the internet much worse. And now AI is going to grab the knowledge content of your website, present it to users with at most a reference link, and the person who invested the time and effort to create the content is cut out. That’s a big problem.
But I think this begs the question of whether search was any good before. It wasn’t. It isn’t. And to a large degree, all of the SEO bullshit is the reason why, although also the fact that every single site has to make money on ads to justify it’s existence is also ruining fucking everything. Journalism is all click-bait. Reviews are all advertising and referral links.
This is a nuanced issue, but it really doesn’t matter whether AI wins or loses because the internet is going to continue to get worse. I miss the days of low-bandwidth forcing efficient website design. No bloated 500kb Javascript frameworks. No ad-sense tracking you everywhere you go. I’ll grant you that the internet is prettier now, but that’s really not going to matter if everything winds up presented by AI anyway.
I’m really hopeful that federation continues to grow and bandwidth and storage costs can allow a simple hobbyist to maintain a site/node for minimal cost while contributing to the greater ecosystem. Smaller communities where reputation actually matters instead of being gamified into upvotes and downvotes as some sort of facsimile of trustworthiness. I think with a more personal internet, AI becomes less of a threat anyway.
- Comment on get back, swine! 1 week ago:
“Calm down or you’re fucking dinner.”
“It’s cool. I’m chill.”
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
I respect what you’re saying, and while I agree with you—as you say yourself, he’s not being replaced by AI like that article states. And that was as far as I was trying to go. It’s not even impossible that he’s a good developer who got fired by an idiot who bought into AI hype, but that’s not my first guess, you know?
That’s all I was saying. I largely agree with your points. I don’t think we are really in opposition here, you’re just coming at it from a different perspective than I contemplated in that comment.
Cheers.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
I also have a job in that neighborhood and I could not be replaced by AI. I’m sympathetic to him in the sense that this is a shitty time to be looking for work for a number of reasons, but it seems in the realm of possibility that this guy is a shitty developer who made bank of the fact that for a while companies were desperate for anyone to increase IT headcount, and now finds himself unable to compete with the shitty output of AI.
I’ve 100% worked with developers worse than AI, but not many and if it were up to me they would be retrained into some other career where they can make more of a contribution.
You want to blame it on AI CTS scanning? Yep. Totally believable. AI generated technical questions? Sure.
But because AI is coding circles around you? Bruh…
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 3 weeks ago:
It’s too dumb to try and trick you. It’s responding to being called out the way people tend to because that’s what it’s emulating. And yeah, that’s not great.
All I can say is AI has wasted my time and saved me time. And in my case, more of the latter than the former.
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 3 weeks ago:
AI can be useful without being right about everything. But the user has to know enough to push back or just write it themselves when necessary. And in my experience the same is true when pairing with another developer, too.
It’s a tool, not a solution. Though it’s valid to say the folks touting its miracle capabilities are full of shit. It is imperfect, but it’s not worthless. It’s not a con man, it’s just confidently wrong. I’ve worked with/for a lot of people like that.
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 3 weeks ago:
Most of us have no use for quantum computers. That’s a government/research thing. I have no idea what the next disruptive technology will be. They are working hard on AGI, which has the potential to be genuinely disruptive and world changing, but LLMs are not the path to get there and I have no idea whether they are anywhere close to achieving it.
- Comment on Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Of course. It’s an analogy. It is like someone who means well. It generates text from the default perspective, which is white guy with a bunch of effort to make it more diverse with a similar end result. The responses might sound woke but take a closer look and you’ll find the underlying bias.
- Comment on Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Has nothing to do with guilt-complex. Why would I feel guilty for being privileged? I feel fortunate, and obliged to remain aware of that.
Treating AI like a “program,” however, is a pretty useless lead in to what you really posted to say.
- Comment on Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds 4 weeks ago:
I think researchers are trying to make AI models more aware, but they are trained on a whole lot of human history, and that is going to be predominantly told from white male perspectives. Which means AI is going to act like that.
Women and people of color, you should probably treat AI like it’s that white guy who means well and thinks he’s woke but lacks the self-awareness to see he is 100% part of the problem. (I say this as a white guy who is 100% part of the problem, just hopefully with more self-awareness.)
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 5 weeks ago:
I did like 4 different edits of that url and every time it started at 0. Just tested and it was right. Welp…
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 5 weeks ago:
Apparently not on iOS because I tried exactly that.
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 1 month ago:
I couldn’t conceive of such a thing!
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- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 1 month ago:
Biggest issue I’ve seen with technical analysis like this is that it’s more a measure of market sentiment, not fundamentals. You’re using the crowd as an indicator without any idea of whether the crowd knows anything you don’t or not.
So it’s a little more meaningful than dowsing rods and tarot cards, but only barely. Market sentiment can change on a whim.
- Comment on Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australia 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I’d wonder any more about those developers than anyone else.
Without getting into TMI I very much enjoy non consent fantasy to the point where I had a CNC relationship with my wife for the first five years. And two things I’ve learned about myself are: I’m not physically capable of even play rape, and that having the power was much more fun and exciting than exercising the power.
So to me it feels perfectly normal to be aroused by fantasy rape but not at all by the manifestation of it. I’m sure it’s not mainstream or anything, and there are a lot of people out there, like Andrew Tate, who are exactly what they say they are.
I think it’s fine to look into it and see which is the case, but I personally wouldn’t expect to find any girls in basements who aren’t there consensually based on the content of their games.
- Comment on Plex is rolling out its big app redesign 2 months ago:
Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.
I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 2 months ago:
Something about that story smells fishy.
$1k / jar and brought in $100k… so that’s 100 jars total. Maybe a little extra in case of an accident during shipping. So why did she need to fart 50x per week? Shit, that would be $2.4 million per year of she could actually sell that.
So the way I see it, she was farting in a jar 50x per week but only selling 2 of them… that’s not a business, that’s a fetish she managed to squeeze a whiff of money out of.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround 2 months ago:
What it would mean is that someone bought some stock at that price/share.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
I don’t think so. Not that I have anything better to offer. My wife thinks Biden would’ve won because too many people stayed home, refusing to vote for a black woman. I, frankly, think the election was about the economy. If you look back over the elections, they are almost always about how people are doing financially. If they are scared or hurting, they will vote for change. If they are happy, they vote for the incumbent. My honest opinion is that there wasn’t a scenario or candidate that would’ve changed Trump’s victory.
What I am sure of is that in all of the states where Trump won (even Michigan), if every single person who withheld their vote due to Israel/Gaza had voted for Kamala, that wouldn’t have been enough by itself to change the outcome. Certainly, that issue had an effect, but it didn’t change the outcome by itself. We have to look beyond that.
But, still, if you did withhold your vote thinking you were fighting for Gaza, yeah I think you deserve to have your nose rubbed in that shit.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
I’m 100% for valid criticisms—I don’t even consider myself a Democrat and I have no compunctions about criticizing them when I think they are wrong. But I’m pretty sure that meme is directed at those who withheld their vote.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 months ago:
When every letter is a vowel, none of them are.
- Comment on More than 40% of all US PS5 and Xbox play time last month was spent on 10 live service games [VGC] 2 months ago:
Spent last month playing only Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky. And Disney+ but I’m assuming they mean game play time.