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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no codeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Because “AI” isn’t actually “artificial intelligence.” It’s the marketing term that seems to have been adapted by every corporation to describe “LLMs…” which are more like extra fancy power guzzling parrots.

    Its why the best cases for them are mimicking things brainlessly, like voice cloning for celebrity impressions… but that doesn’t mean it can act or comprehend emotion, or know how many fingers a hand should have and why they constantly hallucinate contextless bullshit… because just like a parrot doesn’t actually know any meaning of what it is saying when it goes “POLLY WANT A CRACKER…” it just knows the tall thing will give it a treat if it makes this specific squawk with its beak.

  • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Generative AI hype is ending – and now the technology might actually become usefulEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I hate to break this to everyone who thinks that “AI” (LLM) is some sort of actual approximation of intelligence, but in reality, it’s just a fucking fancy ass parrot.

    Our current “AI” doesn’t understand anything or have context, it’s just really good at guessing how to say what we want it to say… essentially in the same way that a parrot says “Polly wanna cracker.”

    A parrot “talking to you” doesn’t know that Polly refers to itself or that a cracker is a specific type of food you are describing to it. If you were to ask it, “which hand was holding the cracker…?” it wouldn’t be able to answer the question… because it doesn’t fucking know what a hand is… or even the concept of playing a game or what a “question” even is.

    It just knows that it makes it mouth, go “blah blah blah” in a very specific way, a human is more likely to give it a tasty treat… so it mushes its mouth parts around until its squawk becomes a sound that will elicit such a reward from the human in front of it… which is similar to how LLM “training models” work.

    Oversimplification, but that’s basically it… a trillion-dollar power-grid-straining parrot.

    And just like a parrot - the concept of “I don’t know” isn’t a thing it comprehends… because it’s a dumb fucking parrot.

    The only thing the tech is good at… is mimicking.

    It can “trace the lines” of any existing artist in history, and even blend their works, which is indeed how artists learn initially… but an LLM has nothing that can “inspire” it to create the art… because it’s just tracing the lines like a child would their favorite comic book character. That’s not art. It’s mimicry.

    It can be used to transform your own voice to make you sound like most celebrities almost perfectly… it can make the mouth noises, but has no idea what it’s actually saying… like the parrot.

    You get it?

  • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.English
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    30 days ago

    Yep. LG OLED disconnected from all web connections - literally has its MAC address blacklisted from my router, changed the launcher from stock Google for my NVIDIA Shield to a non ad-riddled launcher called WOLF, side-loaded SmartTube for ad-free YT, and Plex = non-dystopian media experience.

    My next experiment will be to install a glue-tun bound Invidious instance via docker on my NAS, and then point Yattee on my iPhone to it for a mobile version of YT that’s not filled with non-stop ads… now if I can just figure out how to launch it correctly… 😓

  • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop termsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The biggest issue with GIMP is its weird UX choices. They should just make it more like Adobe’s UX. I know there’s tools that bring it closer, but the fact still is that they do some really dumb shit when it comes to experience decisions. Like if I want to change the font of what I’m typing, it works like this…

    I have to TYPE in the font I want, no dropdown, and the font selection toolbar off to the side just straight up doesn’t apply to what I’ve typed or selected… and this is AFTER I ran one of those GIMP retrofit tools that tries to make it more in line with Photoshop.

    Seriously, I’ve used Photoshop since 5.5 (not CS 5.5… FIVE POINT FIVE in 1999), and I STILL have to watch a tutorial for almost every single action I could intuit in 5 seconds from Adobe’s garbage malware tool.

    That being said… the one important thing that GIMP is not… is Adobe garbage malware… GIMP just has a janky UX that no one’s going to bother fixing b/c the tool is free so no complaining!

    And in any case, just like with Blender coming on to the scene in earnest like a decade ago to end Autodesk’s defacto monopoly with its $$$$ per year licensing scheme for proprietary 3D modelling tools… with Adobe rapidly getting worse, and just like with Unity’s “pay us per install” debacle made people jump ship to Godot - never to look back… I’d bet that GIMP is going to begin accelerating its improvement… or that Krita will do the same and overtake it in popularity.

    …And once that happens, Adobe is cooked. And it can’t happen soon enough.