My old work did this resiliency training thing. In the moment it seemed silly, but I use it all the time.
It boiled down to assessing:
1. What you can control
2. What you can influence
3. What is out of your control
And adjusting your reaction based on it. Pretty good system.
what's the scope? how simple is it? are we talking flappy birds, or lion king, or mario party complexity levels?
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I got one this week! What a game changer. I haven't felt this kind of wonder in a console since maybe ps4. Even the switch didn't give me the hype (don't hate me Nintendo fans, it was my first Nintendo since the micro). It's so slick in the smallest details.
The most tragic cautionary tale in Star Wars is General Grievance
He started out with a highly specific grievance and then just got more and more aggrieved until he was just generally aggrieved
And I say it to my partner (in the same context of the original use). Usually just makes her laugh harder. Then I laugh. Life is good.
I hope he don't come to Australia, he'll see adverts for golden gaytimes and explode.
A lot of people who really don't have anything good going on, and choose not to better themselves to feel better, but to put others down, so they appear better. It's a lack of maturity, I'd be surprised if any of them are over 20.
I'm both pro and anti to what the internet calls AI, as someone studying how to build them 😅. But it doesn't matter how much you hate something, it's never worth hatred or violence. I hope you can see that the people who resort to this are small, insecure, mentally unwell, and alone in their bubble.
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That's next quarters problem.
I learn new stuff everyday. I will now refer to my love of colour combinations by the flags they represent.
I usually say "blame capitalism" but it's not really the issue. It's just that I don't know the term for the cancer-like need of (primarily public) companies to constantly expand profits, often at the cost of morality, society, or even survival of themselves. I guess greed?
I like that deep learning could eventually attempt to replicate Asimov's Psychohistory a.k.a. Cliodynamics:
Using sophisticated mathematics and statistical analysis to predict future trends on a galactic scale.
All fun and games until it shows empires falling...
Ironically, the pusher's subtle message:
"Everyone is using it" = "it is a good product"
Deep learning is all about finding correlations and predicting data from existing data. This relationship would be filtered out by AI really quick. Correlation ≠ causation
The reason it annoys me SO much I have to post about it: *this* is the marketing. It's almost subliminal messaging. It's sneaky and feels wrong.
"Everyone is using it"
"Your favourite artists are using it"
"It's the future"
Make your own mind up, don't trust people with agendas. Follow the money.
Screenshot of the Bunnings search page on the mobile app with the term "weather strip" and a loading icon. Their bunnings AI icon is up the top right
Well, Bunnings put AI search in their app. Now I can use simple search terms and spend literally over 30 seconds waiting for search to sit here spinning...
To me it's like saying "Hans is Australia's favourite ham".
No, it's just the ham that sells the most because it's just at most shops at a decent pricepoint. Ask anyone what their favourite ham is, they'd probably say "that one my mum made that one christmas" or something. Twisted Marketing.
but specifically what I'm saying is you can say "yeah, everyone has used AI, it's that popular". I suspect it would be possible, because even the staunchest anti-generative person would have used *something*, even accidentally, that technically uses the matching deep learning algorithms.
I feel like the term AI is such a gross misuse. It's so generic, it could mean anything. AI-Powered tools in music? Arpeggio and VSTs, noise removal algorithms? what counts?
Generative Pre-Trained Transformers are also algorithms. It's when they are used for greed that I have issues.
Oh is it good? The series is my favourite from my youth. Well, that and Pendragon but that one got ruined in their adaption apparently
A nice rule, but I'd also say that someone who made mistakes but rectifies or acknowledges it shouldn't be dragged over the coals.
Crytek been watching unreal fumble, about to make moves to become a top player again.
I heard that doesn't exist properly in Aus at all, and visiting South America is on a whole nother level.
An article full of business jargon and Profitability speak, not what I'd expect as someone who likes studying.
One issue is that updates break mods. I much prefer a game get released, then devs move on to the next one while we enjoy the tail.
Specifically singleplayer games though. Maybe some small form multiplayers
Thankfully that is still going full speed ahead. It just has the boring name of deep learning. Generative Pre-trained Transformers (annoying referred to as AI) are built on deep learning. I hope the profit bubble bursts soon, so we can go back to focusing on curing cancers.
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It's way more complex than this, but do you think the underlying issues of "stop trying to force AI into games [in creative roles]" is the fact that gaming is easily accessible artistic expression that also is an industry that makes tons of money but profit is slowing?