AI couldn’t do this a year ago, it required computer hardware that was supercomputer levels of expensive to even create something like this. IMO development was actually held back by crypto and covid-19. Now AI is the #1 focus of the techbros and it isn’t going to slow down. This shit is going to put so many journalists, artists, and even programmers out of work. I don’t know how else to explain this, HUMANITY LITERALLY CREATED AI THIS YEAR. WE MADE FUCKING SKYNET!

You want to talk about technological progress, this shit mogs fusion, it mogs the vaccines, it mogs whatever dumb space colonization shit we did. We made fucking AI! I bet we will have sentient AI in our lifetime. And what are we going to do with this stuff? Porn, lots of porn. Deepfakes of celebrities and politicians sacrificing children to moloch, dead actors staring in new movies, a new album by Tupac, fake war footage, fake everything.

Have you ever heard about how a monkey can write Shakespeare given enough time? We have fucking done that, we pressed random buttons enough times that we ended up with something legible. Now we turn memes into real people.

We need a butlarian jihad or some shit.

  • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    IMO development was actually held back by crypto

    how? Crypto devs are no more likely to be machine learning researchers than any other devs.

    HUMANITY LITERALLY CREATED AI THIS YEAR. WE MADE FUCKING SKYNET!

    literally did not. I am begging you to take a machine learning course

    Deepfakes of celebrities and politicians sacrificing children to moloch, dead actors staring in new movies, a new album by Tupac, fake war footage, fake everything

    Except for the Tupac album we've had all this stuff for years. Musicians have "holograms" that go on tour, deepfakes have been around for years, fake war footage can be done the old-school way. It's like getting all worked up about the invention of lying.

    The recent "progress" from openAI has mostly been throwing insane amounts of compute and data at the same old thing. That's a change in funding, not scientific progress. Encourage you to watch Caleb Gamman's Cybergunk.

    • drhead [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think the crypto bit is more referring to the role of crypto in silicon shortages.

      Sure did make it easier for me to get into machine learning shit when Etherium killed GPU mining right around the time the 4090 got released.