Are you really better off today buying furniture from IKEA that won’t last ten years, rather than inheriting antiques from your parents that have endured for the last century?

Most people dont have the choice of inheriting pieces of furnitute with a value of months worth of wages when they first get a home of their own.

Are you better of driving a car built in a big machine-factory than riding a trolley that was designed custom for the city lines?

Do you think trolly buses are a pre-industrial thing, with their electric powered engines running on steel rails through dense urban areas?

Damn the writing in SMAC was so good. How do they get you nodding along to a Christian theocrat thinking “Well I dont like her, but she makes some good points”

The switch is what is being tested yes, but it is not clear that what is being measured in the switch is “AI fried their brains” rather than “context switching in the middle of a test”. If they wanted to make that point it would be useful to have the maths test run with a calculator group who also got it yanked halfway through, that way we would be able to see what proportion of the effect is over dependence on AI removing critical thinking and what amount is having your methods disrupted mid task.

I kinda agree, but I think writing all the zeros makes them all blend together into “big numbers”. Better IMO is to refuse to use billion and just write in numbers of millions. People know one million is a very large amount of money so seeing that Bezos has net worth of 290,000 million and so can easily drop 10 million on a fashion party the same way a regular person can drop 10 on some fast food.

They’re campists. The thinking extends as far as USA (and the west more broadly) bad, therefore anyone opposed to the west good.

Its how you get supposed Marxists simping for a theocratic dictatorship in Iran and a gangster oligarchy in Russia.

How many letters are there in 令牌? It’s a simple question right, you wouldnt need to search for it to find out would you?

Sadly you cant expect large comms on Lemmy to do anything that reflexivly up/down vote anything negative/positive about AI, no matter how insightful or nuanced. It’s pretty ironic for this article in particular given that the same refusal to engage is its topic.

Funnily enough, they were slop before slop was popular. With Herbert’s son cranking out an endless quantity of vapid simulacra of his fathers work for profit.

Copyrights getting legal precident of “rights holders get to decide what you do with their work” would be worse.

You’re being needlessly agressive in calling people who have a different opinion to you dipshits.

Clair Obscur in particular would not have worked without the graphical beauty it had. Without wanting to give too much away the game itself is heavily wrapped up in visual art as a medium for both the narrative and the gameplay and it would not havev worked (imo) if the graphics looked poor in comparison to it’s peers at the time.

Clair Obscur and BG3 spring immediately to mind as games with incredibly high production values (=large teams working for a long time) that were successful both commercially and critically. So yes some people do care about that. Especially if you are wanting to make a large mass-market game you cant rely on being the next person to make a terraria or stardew valley.

Some bits absolutely can benefit from thowing bodies at them though. Animation is one of the key areas for that: if you want to give thousands of models hundreds of unique animations you absolutely can split that up by having 100 animators do 10 each rather than 10 doing 100 each.

The increase in desire for graphical fidelity and custom naturalistic animation is a huge driver of the balloning teams and budgets for the AA and AAA games.

Honestly, even if you dont want to watch the rest of the show, watch that episode. Its almost entirely self contained, all you need to know is that its set in a post-apocalypse zombie world. Its probably the most moving episode of television I’ve ever seen.

I dont think the large trillion plus parameters models are going away in the short term, unless theres some big breakthrough on model architeture. But I think the small local or cheaply cloud hostable models will take over the vast majority of tasks

I agree, you downloading some movies should not be illegal, especially if they are more than a few years old.

That it is illegal doesnt make training a network theft, nothing was taken away from anyone. Other than their expections of rental income from “IP”.

The title kinda buries the lede there. I thought it was ridiculous to fine a platform just because a streamer happened to die on camera, but no, they were streaming months long abuse and torture of this guy at the hands of his co-streamers.