If one of my developers used "||" that way I would definitely throw some side eye
Readit NewsI read a book about particle physics and understood a very small amount of it. My understanding is that you cannot have faster than light anything because nothing can travel faster than light. For instance, the gravitational field of this coffee cup in my hand spans the entire universe. The cup is gravitationally attracting me, the Earth, the Sun, and every other atom in the universe (albeit at a remarkably low level of power). Even this gravitational field is not FTL though, because some particle exists that does the work of attracting. My cup is emitting gravitons or something like that, and those gravitons travel at the speed of light. A graviton leaves my cup, travels at the speed of light to Mars, and when it hits Mars, it attracts it.
What I am saying is that, in my understanding, there is no action that can occur without a particle that acts, and since no particle can travel FTL, nothing can happen FTL.
In the case of Quantum entanglement, mustn't some particle travel from the first quantum thing to the entangled quantum thing in order to have an effect?
I believe that my understanding is flawed! I don't know how to get a clearer view though. Any advice?
I think the development of Generative models for images and audio has more to do with the fact that Computer Vision research goes back decades, and the same systems that originally recognized and labeled images or audio were tweaked to invert the process - and it became naturally an intriguing topic of development precisely because creation is seen as an innately human thing. Beyond that, I'd speculate that the reason we keep seeing developments in "the arts" (though I disagree that an AI can make art, even if it can make beautiful images or music) is because there's no readily-agreed-upon value for that task.
An AI CPA has a specific economic value, but is also a commodity service that no one wants unless they need it. Since there's a clearly comparable cost for needed CPA services, then naturally creating an AI system to do it has a readily comparable market price. People aren't going to make that AI system unless they can do it in way that will make be an improvement as compared to that existing service and price.
I think "just because" has always been a justifiable reason for humans creating beauty (not the same as making art), so it works for research projects better than building a better mousetrap.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! You've given me some stuff to think about
Why are AI developers so goddamned keen on having it make art, one of the few kinds of work that human beings actually LIKE doing? We could use AI to be a CPA, or to write citations for a paper, but noooo, AI has to be a painter and a musician.
It's almost like the software developers are jealous that someone out there is having a good time and want to take it from them.
Also miss me with that 'AI enables me (a scrub) to make art I couldn't otherwise because I don't want to learn how to do it'. You are lazy. Congrats on finding a high horse about your laziness.
You may say just don't consume the "thing" which I do but it has an unfortunate side effect. It actually tends to alienate you from the other people participating. The entire thing becomes about "why are you not eating". In the end I just avoid the awkward situation by not going/participating.
I love the idea but why does it have to rotate around slowly killing ourselves?