I live in seattle and I love AI lol.
But yea, AI companies should pay into a UBI fund. The value of collective creative output of humanity should go back to the living not the select few.
Readit Newscomeondude commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar
It was so weird and visceral. Wish they didn’t cancel it.
comeondude commented on FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoin... · Posted by u/evan_
Is it closer to "manna" or to "moolah" in meaning?
Yeah, you could say that, a bit more on the sarcastic side.
comeondude commented on FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoin... · Posted by u/evan_
I'm unfamiliar with the word "mannah". What does it mean here?
Humorous way of saying money. Like ‘murica!
comeondude commented on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
Yeah, great, but also completely irrelevant. Is every post on Hacker News related to AI in any way a place to post anecdotes about AI?
I’m actually a huge fan of Brett Victor and I felt like he’s kinda missing the dynamic, adaptable nature of AI that allows non-technical people like me to finally access the system layer of computation for our creative ends.
In other words, in many ways, AI (or rather llms) is the very thing that Brett Victor has spent his whole career imagining and creating - a computing interface that closes gap between human imagination and creation. But here, he’s focusing on the negatives while neglecting, IMHO, the vast potential of AI to allow people to connect, create, and express themselves. As in truly having a PERSONAL computer.
At Dynamicland, he was attempting to build a system that non-technical people like me can interface in a way that makes sense to us.
Taking your unnecessarily disparaging microwave analogy - Using CHATGPT, I can understand it, reprogram it, and do fun stuff, like I don’t know - set up a basketball hoop that sets the timer based on how many shots I make, despite having limited or no technical background. Like I can tell chatgpt my crazy vision, and it will give me step by step approach, with proper resources, and respond in a way that I can grok to build this thing.
THIS is why I'm awestruck.
My anecdote is just my personal reaction to the post. Besides, what’s wrong with people expressing themselves freely here?
comeondude commented on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
Nice! That's what we all want, but without the content reapropriation, surveillance and public discourse meddling.
Think of a version that is even more fun, won't teach your kids wrong stuff, won't need a datacenter full of expensive chips and won't hit the news with sensacionalist headlines.
That’s the dream eh?!
comeondude commented on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
I enjoy the fun attitude, I had a family member state something similar, but I always warn: with powerful AI comes serious consequences. Are we ready for those consequences? How far do we want AI to reach into our lives and livelihood?
We managed to survive the nuke and environmental lead (two examples of humanity veering into drastically wrong directions)
we are never ready for seismic changes. But we will have to adapt one way or another, might as well find a good use for it and develop awareness as a child would around handling knives.
comeondude commented on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
Sounds more like a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline - defined as a set of practices that automate the process of building, testing and deploying software. Or rather, fonts in this case.
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a collection of geographically scattered servers that speeds up delivery of web content by being closer to users. Most video/image services use CDNs to efficiently serve up content to users around the world. For example, someone watching Netflix in California will connect to a different server than someone watching the same show in London.
Gotcha. Appreciate you taking the time to teach me!
comeondude commented on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
I do love the approachability they create. Personally as a coder, I don't find the AI experience at all fun, but I get that others do.
Have you tried using AI to further changes to any of these projects down the line?
Makes sense. I know what I built is nowhere near actual software development. Still I was able to quickly learn how things work through GPT.
Since I’ve literally been working on this project for two days, here’s a somewhat related answer to your question: I’ve been using chat gpt to build art for TCG. Initially I was resistant and upset at AI companies were hoovering up people’s work wholesale for training data (which is why I think now is an excellent time to have serious conversation about UBI, but I digress).
But I finally realized that I could develop my own distinctive 3D visual style by feeding GPT my drawings and having it iterate in interesting directions. It’s fun to refine the style, by having GPT simulate actual camera lens and lighting set up.
But yes I’ve used AI to make numerous stylistic tweaks to my site, including building out a tagging system that allows me to customize the look of individual pages when I write a post)
Hope I’ll be able to learn how to build an actual complex app one day, or games.
My main problem is that at this point, the value of entire collective creative output of humanity should go to the living not the select few.
IMHO AI companies should pay into some kind of UBI fund/ Sovergeign fund.
Time for capitalism to evolve, yo!