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- Comment on The Inescapable Intersection of SGF and ICE Protests 1 day ago:
I actually know her from her guest chair on Remap Radio, but man is PPB a good podcast.
- Comment on The Inescapable Intersection of SGF and ICE Protests 1 day ago:
you been listening to PewPewBang? the most original gaming podcast i’ve heard in years!
- Comment on Cyberattack at grocery stores and pharmacies 1 day ago:
this is really wild. we live in an era where a cyberattack can break the food supply chain. I hate how dependent I am on grocery stores, but also i don’t really like or have time for any of the alternative solutions.
- Comment on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma || Review Thread 2 days ago:
Review from “TheGamer” has been omitted because of their association with Valnet, the scummy owners of OpenCritic bee fingerguns emoji
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- Comment on The Inescapable Intersection of SGF and ICE Protests 2 days ago:
I love Janet! This piece was so so good, glad we got her thoughts on this. I’ve been thinking about this intersection all week, can’t think of a better person to write about it.
- Comment on Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 2 days ago:
Midjourney is a product that is being sold for money. Midjourney is making money off of providing users with unauthorized images of Disney and Universal characters. Midjourney is not making up original characters that happen to look like the licensed characters; they are just producing the characters themselves:
For example, if a Midjourney subscriber prompts the AI tool to generate an image of Darth Vader, it immediately obliges, according to the plaintiffs, and the same occurs for images of Minions.
Furthermore, we know that Midjourney obtained the ability to generate these images by training on Disney’s and Universal’s copyrighted properties. This is why Midjourney knows these characters by name.
To your example, I think one big difference is that if you make a digital drawing of Mickey Mouse and then print it out, you are not going on to share that image with a global marketplace of other Epson users. Additionally, you also need an uncommon level of drawing skill to produce a drawing that is so convincing that people may confuse it for Disney’s own work. Midjourney has a social page where users share their creations, and those pages are littered with people’s low-effort generations of licensed characters:
With Midjourney, any doofus can generate an image of Mickey Mouse flipping off Goofy, and it will look good enough that most people will think Disney made it. If the internet is littered with images like this, it reduces the value of Disney’s properties.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour || Review Thread 3 days ago:
Yeah it’s a bizarre choice. I’d bet the actual developers of the game were not the same people that made the choice to charge money for the game.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour || Review Thread 3 days ago:
Interesting. I guess I am curious if others find review threads useful? Generally I agree with you, I don’t care that much about most individual reviews. However, I find the aggregators useful as a way of taking the temperature on how critics feel about a new release. The threads also make a good place to focus discussion around specific games. However, most of these threads get zero comments unless the game is hotly anticipated.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour || Review Thread 3 days ago:
i recently discovered that OpenCritic has been acquired by Valnet, who also owns some of the trashier websites listed on OpenCritic, so I would really love to move back over to Metacritic since they seem to do a better job of filtering out low-quality critics. If anyone knows a way to create review threads like this using Metacritic, please let me know!
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- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 days ago:
Interesting. I figured since this post is in a Beehaw community they would be invisible to everyone, but good to know.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 days ago:
It is important to do demonstrations like this in the hopes that the general public will understand the limitations of this tech.
THIS is the thing. The general public’s perception of ChatGPT is basically whatever OpenAI’s marketing department tells them to believe, plus their single memory of that one time they tested out ChatGPT and it was pretty impressive. Right now, OpenAI is telling everyone that they are a few years away from Artificial General Intelligence. Tests like this one demonstrate how wrong OpenAI is in that assertion.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 days ago:
not sure why people are downvoting this
downvotes are not allowed on beehaw fyi
- Comment on Mario Kart World | Review Thread 4 days ago:
I do think $80 is steep. But that aside, the game is outstanding
Isn’t the launch deal essentially getting the game for $30 off? Seems like a fair price for the game when you consider that - if you are buying the Switch 2 at launch, you are buying it to play the new Mario Kart, so I guess the $80 price tag is just to push you towards the bundle? I wonder what kind of discounts they will do this gen. Nintendo has historically been very stingy with deals, but I wonder if $80 price tag will mean slightly deeper discounts in the future?
- Comment on Mario Kart World | Review Thread 5 days ago:
Evidently the CBR review is straight up lying. The game does not do 4k resolution in any setting, and the game can only do 1080p 120fps.
- Comment on Mario Kart World | Review Thread 5 days ago:
Mario Kart World needs 30 different Porsches to unlock via weekly challenges, THEN it’ll be a real game.
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- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
I will repeat what I said in another reply below: if the cost of running these closed source AI models was as negligible as you are suggesting, then these companies would be screaming it from the rooftops to get the stink of this energy usage story off their backs. AI is all investors and hype right now, which means the industry is extra vulnerable to negative stories. By staying silent, the AI companies are allowing people like me to make wild guesses at the numbers and possibly fear-monger with misinformation. They could shut up all the naysayers by simply releasing their numbers. The fact that they are still staying silent despite all the negative press suggests that the energy usage numbers are far worse than anyone is estimating.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
i appreciate that you are engaging deeply. I don’t really have anything else to say that i haven’t said already, but just wanted to show my respect there.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
This is completely arbitrary and supposition
It is, that’s the point. We don’t know because the AI companies are intentionally hiding that detail. My estimates are based on the real numbers we do have, and all we know about the closed source models is that they contain more parameters than the open source models, and more parameters = more energy use.
When I started adding multipliers to take a stab at the numbers, I was being conservative. A single AI voice response definitely takes more than 6500 joules, we just don’t know. It’s not that much of a stretch to assume that a voice generation is somewhere halfway between a text generation and a video generation. If my numbers were accurate, that would actually be great news for the AI companies. They would be shouting these numbers from the fucking rooftops to get the stink of this energy usage story off their backs. Corporations never disclose anything unless it is good news. Their silence says everything - if we were actually betting, I would gladly bet that my single video card uses way less energy than their data centers packed to the brim with higher-end GPUs. It’s just a no-brainer.
- Comment on It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC] 1 week ago:
big if tru
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
yeah, if OpenAI and the rest were talking today about making the models more efficient, rather than focusing on making them more accurate, I would be way less of a luddite about this. If our energy grids were mostly made up of clean sources of energy, I would be way less of a luddite about this. But neither of these things are true, so I remain a luddite about AI.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
that would be a safe bet given that none of these AI companies disclose their actual energy usage, so you would never have to pay out that bet because we would never find out if you were right.
What we do know is that generating a single text response on the largest open source AI models takes about 6,500 joules, if you don’t include the exorbitant energy cost of training the model. 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. That’s 19,500 joules. 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.
My 3080ti is 350W - if I played a single half-hour match of Fortnite, my GPU would use about 630,000 joules (and that’s assuming my GPU is running at max capacity the entire time, which never happens). Epic’s AI voice model is pretty high quality, so let’s estimate that the cost of a single AI voice response is about 100,000 joules, similar to the low quality video generation mentioned above. If these estimates are close, this means that if I ask Fortnite Darth Vader just 7 questions, the AI has cost more energy than my GPU does while playing the game on max settings.
- Comment on It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC] 1 week ago:
i guess hype is still valuable to Nintendo, even if people can’t buy the thing right this second? Nintendo are the masters of intentionally restricting supply to increase demand and hype. They honed their strategy with the Amiibos, NES Classic, and SNES Classic, and then i’d say they mastered it around the time of the COVID Switch 1 shortages.
By all accounts, Nintendo is not artificially reducing demand with this launch. It seems like they are really trying to have as many as possible available for launch day. But they still know how to make the most of a shortage.
- It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC]www.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
Like honestly, on paper this sounds so cool. If you told me in 2015 that in 10 years time i would be able to play online games with NPC allies that chat with me kinda like real people, I would be super excited about that (and maybe just a little unsettled).
Of course, in practice, I hate this. I don’t care how cool the tech is, the energy cost of running this tech for even half of Fortnite’s active daily users on a daily basis must be eyewatering. No LLM tech in videogames is worth cooking the planet over. And we all know that the tech companies want utility customers to help foot the bill for these moronic uses of energy, whether we like it or not.
So ultimately: fuck Epic and anyone else trying to use this LLM tech for anything other than life-or-death situations.
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