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mimis face card is insane

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i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

#I glazed a bunch of pottery

littleguysdaily

This was a Patreon Request

#project hail mary #art

maxwellmcgrath

remember when mattel released a t-rex extroyer toy that vomited its own skeleton for no apparent reason

segamascott

wdym for no apparent reason it's because it's awesome

#the humble goblin shark #stuff #gif #toys

mellifexfarm

behold my ugly

#gummy candy 🫵#the first picture did not delight me to be frank #animals #birds

lost-in-fumes

if "29" is your idea of an older woman you have a flickering pale aura and you will not survive daylight saving time

kgrsgmr

#star wars #art

deathgripsforcutie

i always thought it was funny how in the lord of the rings sam and frodo head out and after awhile sam’s like “mr. frodo if i take one more step this is the farthest from the shire ive ever been” and then a ways after they meet up with merry and pippin on their daily vegetable run like jesus christ sam get out of the house once in awhile

#lotr

herpsandbirds

Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus v. viridescens), male in breeding form, family Salamandridae, CT, USA

Subspecies of the Eastern Newt

This individual was photographed and released.

photograph by Zi Han Wei

#hell yeah hell yeah #I love these guys big time #animals #amphibians #newts #salamanders #eastern newt

pippindot

ummm found it like this

#animals #dogs

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

calciumcryptid

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

ooo-silly-worms

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.