Is he high?
A lot of what we take for granted in software now days was once considered "AI". Every NPC that follows your character in a video game while dynamically accounting for obstacles and terrain features uses the "A* algorithm" which is commonly taught in college courses on "AI". Gmail sorting spam from non-spam (and not really all that well, honestly)? That's "AI". The first version of Google's search algorithm was also "AI".
If you're asking about LLMs, none. Zero. Zip. Nada. Not a goddamned one. LLMs are a scam that need to die in a fire.
Have you ever watched Andromeda?
Thank you!
I'll let you know.
A question about this. Can I ask what's meant by "sensitive to others' feelings?"
"The year is 2075. Yesterday was the day the last legal thing became illegal. And what was the last legal thing, you ask? The answer is obvious in retrospect. It was law itself."
I dunno, honestly. Were this a case about abortion or immigration or curch-and-state, I'd agree that the current SCOTUS is going to make damned sure the outcome is unfavorable.
But when it comes to things like copyright, it's not uncommon to find that good policy doesn't necessarily fall on party lines.
A few good examples I can think of:
The 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act that extended the already-ridiculously-long term of copyright by an additional 20 years to protect the Walt Disney Corporation's precious Steamboat Willy (basically, to protect big corporate special interests) from entering the public domain was the "life's work" of Sonny Bono, a Democratic senator.
The 2001 court case Eldred v. Ashcroft challenging the constitutionality of the above-mentioned 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act which made it to the SCOTUS failed. The majority opinion of the court is easily one of the most bullshit documents I've read in my life. That majority opion? Penned by RBG.
In 2022, a bill was introduced in the senate to shorten the term of copyright to 28 years with an option to renew for an additional 28 years. Who do you suppose introduced that bill? Bernie? Maybe AOC? Nope. Missouri Republican Josh Hawley. Yes, this guy:
The guy whose rhetoric helped incite the MAGA crowd in D.C. to stage an attempted coup on January 6th 2021.
The House version of basically the same bill was introduced by Greg Steube, Republican congressman from Florida.
(To be fair, the Josh Hawley/Greg Steube bills, from what I've heard in passing, may have been introduced specifically to punish Disney for being too "woke". But still.)
Hrm. I want to say I got the impression that Linux kernel modules have to be GPL'd (or LGPL'd, maybe) from some comments I heard from someone heavily involved with the litigation that resulted in OpenWRT. (I remember something about the plaintiff promising not to pursue getting the source of just a few specific kernel modules even though the law would be on their side if they did pursue that (and I thought that was because the modules qualified as derivative works of the kernel), but in the process of coming to a settlement they thought it prudent to concede that one thing.) When I get some time, I'll go and see if I can find where I heard that and see if I might have misinterpreted it or if the source wasn't authoritative. I'm pretty sure the source I'm talking about was a video on the SFC's YouTube channel. Thanks for the input. I'm definitely always interested in making sure I don't have misconceptions about this sort of thing. And I'll update my posts to reflect what I find out when I get that far.
I... don't know, honestly. I don't think any amicus briefs have been written to the court for this case. Not sure whether that means they aren't allowed or not. It's in state court, so maybe only California residents could write amicus briefs in this case? Or maybe amicus briefs aren't really a thing until there have been one or two appeals? (It is in basically the lowest court it could be in right now.) Not sure. Honestly I'm just speculating at this point.
2050s - Time traveling paleontologist team returns from a trip to the cretaceous only to establish a religion dedicated solely to the worship of spinosaurus in whose imaginations we are only figments.
If you like that, I highly recommend perusing the Hacker Jargon File, home of such gems as:
- wetware - [prob.: from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. “Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers.” 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See liveware, meatware.
- splork! - [Usenet; common] The sound of coffee (or other beverage) hitting the monitor and/or keyboard after being forced out of the mouth via the nose. It usually follows an unexpectedly funny thing in a Usenet post. Compare snarf.
- bag on the side - [prob. originally related to a colostomy bag] An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also v. phrase, “to hang a bag on the side [of]”. “C++? That's just a bag on the side of C ....” “They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system.”
Yeah, I think it's smart to be making an MVP that's just the engine with plugin support. I think you'll need a minimal reference mod at least to show how you'd go about making a proper mod that's actually a "game". It's totally valid for that minimal reference mod to be really minimal. Like, more of a testing tool than a "game" per se. Use stick figures. Or even worms or something.
Once you've got something that can support mods that other folks could make, folks can jump on board and help if they want to. If not, you can start focusing on a mod that's an actual "game" later, if you're still able and willing to continue working on the project.
Importing from Sims games is pretty cool. I'd definitely be interested in that as a feature. But if that was never supported, that'd honestly be fine as well.
If someone wanted something that was "true" to the Sims games, they could make a mod. There was a mod for Luanti called "Mineclone2" (that I think has renamed since, but I don't recall what to) that was a relatively faithful reproduction of Minecraft in Luanti. Someone could do that if they wanted to. Especially if what you're building ("SimGine") get a pretty active modding community like Luanti has.
...can't seem to differentiate between real vs what's on the screen...
Speak for yourself.
So many places I could start when answering this question. I guess I'll just pick one.
It's a bubble. The hype is ridiculous. There's plenty of that hype in your post. The claims are that it'll revolutionize... well basically everything, really. Obsolete human coders. Be your personal secretary. Do your job for you.
Make no mistake. These narratives are being pushed for the personal benefit of a very few people at the expense of you and virtually everyone else. Nvidia and OpenAI and Google and IBM and so on are using this to make a quick buck. Just like TY capitalized on (and encouraged) a bubble back around the turn of the millennium that we now look back on with embarrassment.
In reality, the only thing AI is really effective as is a gimmicky "toy" that entertains as long as the novelty hasn't worn thin. There's very little real world application. LLM's are too unreliable at getting facts straight and not making up BS to be trusted for any real-world use case. Image generating "AI"'s like stable diffusion produce output (and by "produce output" I mean rip off artists) that all has a similar, fakey appearance with major, obvious errors which generally instantly identify it as low-effort "slop". Any big company that claims to be using AI in any serious capacity is lying either to you or themselves. (Possibly both.)
And there's no reason to think it's going to get better at anything, "AI industry" hype not withstanding. ChatGPT is not a step in the direction of general AI. It's a distraction from any real progress in that direction.
There's a word for selling something based on false promises. "Scam." It's all to hoodwink people into giving them money.
And it's convincing dumbass bosses who don't know any better. Our jobs are at risk. Not because AI can do your job just as well or better. But because your company's CEO is too stupid not to fall for the scam. By the time the CEO gets removed by the board for gross incompetence, it'll be too late for you. You will have already lost your job by then.
Or maybe your CEO knows full well AI can't replace people and is using "AI" as a pretense to lay you off and replace you with someone they don't have to pay as much.
Now before you come back with all kinds of claims about all the really real real-world applications of AI, understand that that's probably self-deception and/or hype you've gotten from AI grifters.
Finally, let me back up a bit. I took a course in college probably back in 2006 or so called "introduction to artificial intelligence". In that course, I learned about, among other things, the "A* algorithm". If you've ever played a video game where an NPC or enemy followed your character, the A* algorithm or some slight variation on it was probably at play. The A* algorithm is completely unlike LLMs, "generative AI", and whatever other buzzwords the AI grifting industry has come up with lately. It doesn't involve training anything on large data sets. It doesn't require a powerful GPU. When you give it a particular output, you can examine the algorithm to understand exactly why it did what it did, unlike LLMs which produce answers that can't be tracked down to what training data went into producing that particular response. The A* algorithm has been known and well-understood since 1968.
That kind of "AI" is fine. It's provably correct and has utility. Basically, it's not a scam. It's the shit that people pretend is the next step on the path to making a Commander Data -- or the shit that people trust blindly when its output shows up at the top of their Google search results -- that needs to die in a fire. And the sooner the better.
But then again, blockchain is still plaguing us after like 16 years. So I don't really have a lot of hope that enough average people are going to wizen up and see the AI scam for what it really is any time soon.
The future is bleak.
I'm a big fan of jq. It's a domain-specific language for manipulating JSON data.
ImageMagick is like ffmpeg but for images.
inotify-tools has command-line utilities that can be used in a Bash script or a Bash one-liner to make arbitrary things "happen" when something "happens" to a file or directory. (Then the file is opened or written to or renamed or whatever.)
I probably should mention rsync. It's like a swiss army knife for copying files from one place to another. And it supports "keeping files syncronized" between two locations.
Of course, there's tons of stuff that you pretty much can't talk about Bash scripting without mentioning. Sed, awk, grep, find, etc.
Also, I totally relate about the terminal giving more dopamine. I kinda just hate going on a point-and-click adventure to do things like image editing or whatever. To the point that I've written a whole-ass domain-specific-language to do what I want rather than use Gimp. (And I'm working on another whole-ass domain-specific-language to do a traditionally-GUI-app sort of task.)
We need to advocate for better pay
Yes.
and stop taking tipped jobs.
If people could just "stop taking tipped jobs" you really think they wouldn't have been doing that already?
Your post kinda has "have you tried just not being depressed?" energy.
Are you thinking not tipping would magically transform a "tipped" position (that was subject to the minimum tipped wage) into a non-tipped position (that was subject to the normal minimum wage)? What's the threshold? A particular percentage of transactions refraining from tipping? Under a specific dollar amount of tips per worker? The employer having to supplement the tips to get it up to the minimum tipped wage more than a certain percentage of the time? Are you sure "yeah, but there's a blank on the receipt labeled 'tip', so theoretically the workers could get tips" isn't enough to make the minimum tipped wage apply? Does it vary by jurisdiction?
Meanwhile, the real person behind the real counter of the real coffee shop you like probably regularly skips meals to afford rent.
Even if what you're suggesting could work, who's to say they wouldn't immediately replace it with some "gig economy" sort of alternative that would turn the workers into freelancers to whom no minimum wage applied?
Yes, advocate for worker rights, but don't kid yourself that not tipping your servers is somehow doing them a favor.
I mean, you should tip the barista, though.
Good on Sweden for being pissed at him for that.