The more likely theory is that the billions of dollars spent on propaganda actually worked. Marketing is far more effective than you’d think it should be… The average person is ridiculously gullible.

It’s not just democracy, but information quality in general.

This is what we get for seeking profits more than truth.

Except ConcernedApe, apparently.

I’ve bought it at least 5 times; sent it to a lot of family members.

It seems clear that during training they weight Musk’s tweets (and those of accounts he likes) more heavily than everyone else’s.

Agreed, drug development is a very good use of AI.

That’s because Musk directed his people to weight his tweets and the tweets of people he agrees with more than everyone else.

Dude is so fragile that he had to create his own echo chamber to feel like anybody loves him.

It’s easy to tune a chat to confidently speak any bullshit take. But overriding what an AI has learned with alignment steps like this has been shown to measurably weaken its capabilities.

So here we have a guy who’s so butthurt by reality that he decided to make his own product stupider just to reinforce his echo chamber. (I think we all saw this coming.)

I do love Godot, but some of their API decisions are really obtuse. (Particularly on the 3D side. 2D is already superior to Unity.) They’re cooking but it does need some more time before it will be as easy for beginners as Unity is.

I have no doubt that Godot will win in the end but it needs some more time.

Remember that a significant uptick of young people voted for Trump this time around. It’s not just a boomer problem anymore.

The biggest problem with Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc is that they pulled it off, and now a bunch of studios think they can do it too.

Popular photo and video editing apps like Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, and Avid Media Composer already support it, alongside Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Apple’s iOS and macOS also work with the new file standard.

This is all the article mentions. I hope you’re right about the backwards compatibility.

Survivorship of older games is a really good indicator that they’ll continue to be available in the future. Like you said, too many modern games are online only and turn to expensive nothingness when the servers are shut down.

Oh for sure. But if (for example) an artist can save time by tracing over an SDXL reference image, that is energy-efficient as well as time-efficient, despite most people claiming the contrary.

Not only are they cheaper than AC, but doing the math shows that they are more energy efficient than a human doing the same work, since humans operate at around 80-100W, 24 hours a day. (Assuming that the output is worth anything, of course.)

That’s both the strength and horror of LLMs. They are super good at presenting information in a pleasing way to the user… but can you trust that what it says is correct?

To the majority of humans, a pleasing presentation is treated as evidence of truth, despite that being a logical fallacy.

It’s not a normal choice of game controller but people have played games with weirder.

Not sure if you’re new to this or what, but money buys a shitton of power in the US, and Musk has plenty of money.

Not necessarily, but everyone having access to cheap labor AND raw materials would ensure that.

Now I’m not going to pretend that AI is anywhere close to being a source of cheap labor. It really can’t do much without a human to assist it.

I’m not entirely sure of that. While corporate AI would certainly cause that, right now there are open weights models which can be run on a relatively affordable computer, and they are not that far behind. These models are able to democratize AI benefits rather than concentrate it.