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Cake day: December 31st, 2023
  • Jayjader@jlai.lutoTechnology@beehaw.org•The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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    11 days ago

    Something something when a metric becomes a target something something it ceases to be a useful metric. Only in this case the metric is fungible and can be traded for almost anything else in the world. No wonder it became the target.

    The older I get, the more I think Tolkien and Herbert had it right (despite disagreeing with much of their politics); gift economies, subsistence farming, and self-reliance are the way to go to prevent us from destroying ourselves.

  • Jayjader@jlai.lutoGames@sh.itjust.works•After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand over AI: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'English
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    16 days ago

    I’m not surprised they ultimately felt like GenAI isn’t useful to what they’re trying to do. Game dev has known about this type of generation for a while now (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis and the sources linked at the bottom) and it takes a lot of human effort to curate both the training data and the model weights to end up with anything that feels new and meaningful.

    If I shuffle a deck of 52 cards, there is a high chance of obtaining a deck order that has never occurred before in human history. Big whoop. GenAI is closer to sexy dice anyways - the “intelligent work” was making sure the dice faces always make sense when put together and you don’t end up rolling “blow suck” or “lips thigh”.

    It’s very impressive that we’re able to scale this type of apparatus up to plausibly generate meaningful paragraphs, conversations, and programs. It’s ridiculous what it cost us to get it this far, and just like sexy dice and card shuffling I fail to see it as capable of replacing human thought or ingenuity, let alone expressing what’s “in my head”. Not until we can bolt it onto a body that can feel pain and hunger and joy, and we can already make human babies much more efficiently than what it takes to train an LLM from scratch (and they have personhood and thus rights in most societies around the world).

    Even the people worried about “AI self-improving” to the point it “escapes our control” don’t seem to be able to demonstrate that today’s AI can do much more than slow us down in the long run; this study was published over 5 months ago, and they don’t seem to have found much since then.