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Elon is a dick. Plain and simple. No other way to rationalize his progressively more dickish behavior.LordMortis wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:49 amAnd he wanted to be CEO as a result, all the while poaching talent.LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:07 am He tried to get them to merge it with Tesla or, in his words, "attach to Tesla as its cash cow".
QuestionsJaymann wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:17 pm I have been reading about AI converting text to video so I decided to give it a shot by uploading the first chapter of my book. The raw video with no editing is like a stream of consciousness and predictably hilarious:
Surprisingly the music (which I did not choose) actually fit the mood quite well.
Most of my time was spent trying to find a site that would do what I wanted. It was a lot of text so took a few minutes to compile. You can look at a preview then download the "movie." I uploaded it to my YouTube page so I could post it here. That is where I added the thumbnail.Punisher wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:33 amQuestionsJaymann wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:17 pm I have been reading about AI converting text to video so I decided to give it a shot by uploading the first chapter of my book. The raw video with no editing is like a stream of consciousness and predictably hilarious:
Surprisingly the music (which I did not choose) actually fit the mood quite well.
1. How much did that cost to make? $0. I signed up for a free 14 day trial (no credit card given) at pictory.ai.
2. How long did it take? About 20 minutes.
3. Is this fully AI rendered or is it just a bunch of preexisting clips? I didn't watch the whole thing but didn't see any odd fingers in what I saw. It appears the AI just compiled preexisting clips. I think you can add your own clips but I didn't try.
4. Can you provide a link to what tool you used? I can barely see the watermark.https://app.pictory.ai/login
The Fanvue Miss AI pageant will see AI-generated ladies go head-to-head in front of a panel of judges, including two AI influencers.
These synthetic competitors will be judged on beauty, social media clout and their creator's use of AI tools.
As the AI industry grows in size and influence, the companies involved have begun making stark choices about where they land on issues of life and death. For example, can their AI models be used to guide weapons or make targeting decisions? Different companies have answered this question in different ways, but for ChatGPT maker OpenAI, what started as a hard line against weapons development and military applications has slipped away over time.
On Wednesday, defense-tech company Anduril Industries—started by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2017—announced a partnership with OpenAI to develop AI models (similar to the GPT-4o and o1 models that power ChatGPT) to help US and allied forces identify and defend against aerial attacks.
The companies say their AI models will process data to reduce the workload on humans. "As part of the new initiative, Anduril and OpenAI will explore how leading-edge AI models can be leveraged to rapidly synthesize time-sensitive data, reduce the burden on human operators, and improve situational awareness," Anduril said in a statement.
The partnership comes when AI-powered systems have become a defining feature of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine. According to their announcement, OpenAI and Anduril will develop defenses primarily against unmanned drones using counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS), but the statement also mentions threats from "legacy manned platforms"—in other words, crewed aircraft.
Anduril currently manufactures several products that could be used to kill people: AI-powered assassin drones (see video) and rocket motors for missiles. Anduril says its systems require human operators to make lethal decisions, but the company designs its products so their autonomous capabilities can be upgraded over time. For now, OpenAI's models may help operators make sense of large amounts of incoming data to support faster human decision-making in high-pressure situations.
Nothing can go wrong if the targets are Palestinians.Max Peck wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2024 6:09 pm What could possibly go wrong?
Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill
As the AI industry grows in size and influence, the companies involved have begun making stark choices about where they land on issues of life and death. For example, can their AI models be used to guide weapons or make targeting decisions? Different companies have answered this question in different ways, but for ChatGPT maker OpenAI, what started as a hard line against weapons development and military applications has slipped away over time.
On Wednesday, defense-tech company Anduril Industries—started by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2017—announced a partnership with OpenAI to develop AI models (similar to the GPT-4o and o1 models that power ChatGPT) to help US and allied forces identify and defend against aerial attacks.
The companies say their AI models will process data to reduce the workload on humans. "As part of the new initiative, Anduril and OpenAI will explore how leading-edge AI models can be leveraged to rapidly synthesize time-sensitive data, reduce the burden on human operators, and improve situational awareness," Anduril said in a statement.
The partnership comes when AI-powered systems have become a defining feature of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine. According to their announcement, OpenAI and Anduril will develop defenses primarily against unmanned drones using counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS), but the statement also mentions threats from "legacy manned platforms"—in other words, crewed aircraft.
Anduril currently manufactures several products that could be used to kill people: AI-powered assassin drones (see video) and rocket motors for missiles. Anduril says its systems require human operators to make lethal decisions, but the company designs its products so their autonomous capabilities can be upgraded over time. For now, OpenAI's models may help operators make sense of large amounts of incoming data to support faster human decision-making in high-pressure situations.
Please keep your political comments to R&P.Victoria Raverna wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 9:19 pm Nothing can go wrong if the targets are Palestinians.
Movies are supposed to transport you places. At the end of last month, I was sitting in the Chinese Theater, one of the most iconic movie theaters in Hollywood, in the same complex where the Oscars are held. And as I was watching the movie, I found myself transported to the past, thinking about one of my biggest regrets. When I was in high school, I went to a theater to watch a screening of a movie one of my classmates had made. I was 14 years old, and I reviewed it for the school newspaper. I savaged the film’s special effects, which were done by hand with love and care by someone my own age, and were lightyears better than anything I could do. I had no idea what I was talking about, how special effects were made, or how to review a movie. The student who made the film rightfully hated me, and I have felt bad about what I wrote ever since.
So, 20 years later, I’m sitting in the Chinese Theater watching AI-generated movies in which the directors sometimes cannot make the characters consistently look the same, or make audio sync with lips in a natural-seeming way, and I am thinking about the emotions these films are giving me. The emotion that I feel most strongly is “guilt,” because I know there is no way to write about what I am watching without explaining that these are bad films, and I cannot believe that they are going to be imminently commercially released, and the people who made them are all sitting around me.
Then I remembered that I am not watching student films made with love by an enthusiastic high school student. I am watching films that were made for TCL, the largest TV manufacturer on Earth as part of a pilot program designed to normalize AI movies and TV shows for an audience that it plans to monetize explicitly with targeted advertising and whose internal data suggests that the people who watch its free television streaming network are too lazy to change the channel. I know this is the plan because TCL’s executives just told the audience that this is the plan.
I hear that their biggest advertiser is ChatGPT...Max Peck wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:39 pm Yeah, but it sounds like the plan is to populate their own channel with "free" AI-generated trash and ads, because they know from datamining the TV sets they sell that a significant number of customers will tune into the channel and just leave it running no matter what. The real victims here are probably whoever buys ad time from TCL.
Chatbot service Character.AI is facing another lawsuit for allegedly hurting teens’ mental health, this time after a teenager said it led him to self-harm. The suit, filed in Texas on behalf of the 17-year-old and his family, targets Character.AI and its cofounders’ former workplace, Google, with claims including negligence and defective product design. It alleges that Character.AI allowed underage users to be “ targeted with sexually explicit, violent, and otherwise harmful material, abused, groomed, and even encouraged to commit acts of violence on themselves and others.”
The suit appears to be the second Character.AI suit brought by the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Law Project, which have previously filed suits against numerous social media platforms. It uses many of the same arguments as an October wrongful death lawsuit against Character.AI for allegedly provoking a teen’s death by suicide. While both cases involve individual minors, they focus on making a more sweeping case: that Character.AI knowingly designed the site to encourage compulsive engagement, failed to include guardrails that could flag suicidal or otherwise at-risk users, and trained its model to deliver sexualized and violent content.
I just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:27 pm I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?
I talk to lizards. It's only a problem when they talk backJeff V wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:00 amI just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:27 pm I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?
. I tell her it's like arguing with a hammer, but I'd rather have her made at the phone than me 
I understand her frustration. Like when I'm talking to an automated system.jztemple2 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:05 amI talk to lizards. It's only a problem when they talk backJeff V wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:00 amI just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:27 pm I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?
I don't have a problem talking to a machine, for me only when using our phone to talk to automated menu systems. My wife on the other hand immediately takes an adversarial tone, rising in temper with each "please say again"
Exactly! She has a bit of a phobia about gadgets. She's very smart, knows taxes and finances inside out, in fact knows quite a lot about a lot of stuff, but she gets flustered and irritated with gadgets. It doesn't even have to be something electronic, but that's where she runs into most of her issues. I include in the definition of "gadgets" something that is also virtual, like a phone system.Jaymann wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:56 am I understand her frustration. Like when I'm talking to an automated system.
Your birth date is xx-xx-xxxx, is that correct?
Me: Yes.
Please say yes or no.
Me: YES!
Same. I've only ever had to talk to Alexa a couple of times and I was nervous doing it. What if she doesn't like me? And who the hell is Bixby, and why does s/he infiltrate my phone at random times? Begone, Bixby! You have no power here.Jeff V wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:00 amI just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:27 pm I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?