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Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • alternative_factor@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
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    6 months ago

    After the SORA AI reveal today I’m starting to see that luddites have a point. I don’t think we’ll ever have terminator-style scenarios but the amount of damage misinformation and disinformation is doing to our society and now WILL do to our society is proof enough we need to start stepping back. I’ve seen the amazing benefits of AI first hand - new drugs, new treatments, more medical knowledge than ever before, gene sequencing of never before seen organisms. I’ve seen AI help with all those amazing beneficial things.

    But I feel like the bad actors are wining, and winning very hard. Basically everything is unregulated and corporations refuse to take even a modicum of responsibility for anything. The worst thing is knowing that our octogenerian overlords don’t even know how to use a phone. I don’t see why i should continue to be a tech optimist when we all know that things are only going to get worse from here on out. In a post-truth society all we can really do is regress.

  • alternative_factor@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat
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    11 months ago

    In biology we’ve been using machine learning for a long time now so the AI super hype out there is pretty funny to me. It’s for sure useful with stuff like predicting protein folding and analyzing genes and stuff, but it’s all hyper-specific stuff just like it has its always been. Good for removing tedium for sure as its the reason we can even know the human genome because it would take literally forever to sequence it without modern tech, which we did in the in the 90s and finished in 2003.
    My big hope is that all this hype will get people to invest in proteonomic technology which is 100% a great use case for AI and also the future.

  • alternative_factor@kbin.socialtoSteam@lemmy.ml•GODOT ussage this week
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    11 months ago

    It might mean something though, FFXIV is a classic example of a game that almost nobody plays on Steam, but its Steam charts line up somewhat well with the game’s increasing popularity especially with Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Of course you have to look at actual data to back that up, but soemtimes it can show trends.

  • alternative_factor@kbin.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Remember your training and you will survive
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    1 year ago

    “Starship Troopers” the book is blatantly fascist, Heinlein became a fascist in his later years.
    “Starship Troopers” the movie IS a parody of fascism, Verhoeven literally based the Starship Trooper’s symbols on Nazi iconography.
    "Although some contemporary critics and audiences considered Starship Troopers to be an endorsement of fascism, Verhoeven said, “whenever you see something that you think is fascist, you should know that the filmmakers agree with your opinion.”

    Also Sargon is just a fascist puppet.