If you look at a topographical map of the US there are a bunch of mountains in the West, a mountain range in the East, and in the middle there's a bunch of farmland turning into the "Great Plains". Chicago is solidly in the middle, by the letter "L" of "Lake Michigan" in this topographical map: https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/166203
I too was reluctant to read a Wired article bc in the past they've often been clickbait/shallow, but it looks like the last couple months they've been doing quality journalism.
Here's a great example of how a regularly-occurring post can help grow a community. On !vampires@lemmy.zip@Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting the novel Dracula "as it happens" on a calendar. It's an epistolary novel, so they've posted the chapters for May 3, 4, and 5 so far and will post the remaining chapters over the next couple months as that day occurs. (The first 2 chapters are pretty short so you can catch up easily if you want to read along!)
I've been told it's acceptable to flick a cat's ears (gently, obviously) because that's what a mama cat does to her kittens when they do something dumb. Any opinions on this?
We have had AI for about 75 years. What we don’t have is AGI.
I can't believe people are downvoting this statement. You can get textbooks and journals titled "Artificial Intelligence", accredited universities teach the subject, and researchers meet at conferences to discuss the latest research, but apparently that isn't real because... other people use the term differently?
I dislike OpenAI and LLMs as much as anyone else, but we can still be clear about our terminology.
I dunno if Insane Clown Posse started throwing out packets of Flavoraid instead of spraying Faygo at their concerts it just wouldn't have the same effect...
Wah, didn't realize this was a Jourgensen side-project! a funny detail:
the project was planned to resemble the song "Side FX Include Mikey's Middle Finger (TV 4)" from From Beer to Eternity, with all songs clocking over at least 220 beats per minute.[2] The project changed direction, however, when Jourgensen moved from Texas to California and got a medical marijuana card; according to Jourgensen, after this, "the record seemed to slow down considerably."
Yeah, that's right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox