That's honestly disgusting. Not only for the environment and public safety, but those missed opportunities to get some level of activity in your day are simply pissed away in a car.
Like, people are OK commuting by car for 1-3 hours a day... but a 20 or 30 minute walk with a dozen benfits? NO WAY!
A generative AI ouroboros accumulates error until its output is useless.
We're already seeing this, but I don't think that will stop people from using AI (with some human oversight). Countless articles are being generated each day using AI, just so that someone can publish a garbage website that gets a lot of views, and reap those sweet advertising dollars. The quality of the content on the internet is eroding, and i don't think we'll be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
I'm seeing more and more legitimate websites no longer using stock images, but AI generated images for their photo content. It's just too easy, so why wouldn't they, right?
I saw a teenager get hit crossing at a crosswalk in front of a school. Red light, driver in the left turn lane didn't stop behind the line as the girl was crossing. She ended up on the hood and tossed.
I guess the only reason she wasn't severely injured was that she was hit by a car and not a monster truck.
Even when making something new the AI has to be “trained” on existing material. They can’t make something from nothing… yet.
And that's the important part: "yet".
AI is fairly new, so it only has human-created datasets to work off. But at some point, it'll either generate original content on its own, or rely on content already created by other AI.
The quality and originality of this content will probably be stale, but enough of it will be generated to make money and keep people interested, that I don't think it'll matter. The enshitification of the arts is rapidly upon us.
The thing is, we still have recognizable human voices, so there continues to be a market for that talent. But how long will that last? Once AI generated voices become good enough to create new, recognizable voices, it's game over.
AI music isn’t inventing sick rifts or using new instruments together. Humans do. We’ll continue to make the better music
For now, perhaps. It really is only a matter of time before the “algorithm” in these AI music generation tools know what people like to hear, and creates music that hooks them. It doesn't have to be a sick riff, just an earworm that keeps people hooked.
There still may be a market for live musical performances, and I'd still want to see humans on stage. But commercial music? It's too easy for a movie or game producer to enter the prompt: "Errie, slow music with a focus on string instruments." and be done with it.
Sure, some human input will still be required to program a new sound or to tweak the created content, but that won't take the same talent or skill as our current artists.
The only way around this that I can see is to have "Human Verified Content" certification on music, movies, video games, websites, etc., and for people who want to support that content. If enough people simply get used to AI generated art/entertainment, then there's no path forward for these professions.
Traffic infraction bingo sounds like fun! /s
To be quite honest, their days are numbered. AI voice generation will make these jobs completely obsolete in the next few years.
Don't believe me? Just listen to AI generated music using the voice of famous singers. Voice acting by humans doesn't really have a future, sadly.
"This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack."
That's a critical piece of the puzzle, isn't it? LOL
It starts at 2011, so nowhere near compete. Probably 20% complete.
With this be a Pay Per View comedy special? 😂
Sounds like they take micro breaks, which is not only healthy, but can help with productivity.
Is anyone complaining about this?
Any time saved by ordering online and picking up the order has vanished chasing customer support people to fix something that would have taken a few seconds through their website.
Went to order some cat treats and saw that I could get a 25% discount when I sign up for Amazon's subscribe feature.
So I clicked on it and the total in my cart didn't reflect a 25% discount.
When I went back to see what was up, I noticed that the discount went down to 5%.
Unclicking the box will show a 25% discount again...
UPDATE: A commenter mentioned that the text reads "up to 25%", so I went to a different item, added it to my cart and got:
But clicking on that checkbox also brings it back down to 5%.
I just hope the house numbers aren't similar!
Marketing should always be OPT-IN by default, but these extra steps to opt out is truly asshole design.
Oh, and on the opt-out confirmation screen, you get two options: Yes or No. The button colour for "yes" is white, and the “no” button matches the “save” button on the previous screen, so it's easy to accidentally cancel the opt-out. Double-asshole design!
I often wonder if the sellers understand what they are writing in these listings. LOL
That an area designed for our most vulnerable demographic is so dangerous that adults wouldn't want to be in it says a lot about North American culture.