This problem is only going to get worse. Our society wasn’t prepared for the deluge of false information over the last few years; there’s no way we’re ready for anyone with an internet connection being able to generate convincing images, video, and audio of anything they want.

Not knowing the difference between factory and tech workers is worrying enough for any CEO, let alone one who owns both a car company and a social media company. That people still think he is the smartest man in the world is baffling.

This kind of thing represents the tip of the iceberg for a really massive problem we are just beginning to experience: AI-driven misinformation. As AI generative tools evolve, it’s becoming more and more difficult to distinguish between them and reality. Even images or videos with tells that seem obvious to tech-savvy…

I was always team Xbox, but honestly when my old Xbox One dies I’m probably going to get a PS5. There’s a distinct lack of Xbox exclusive titles that would make it worth the purchase, and any games that do come out also come out for PC. Overall it’s a benefit to gamers, I’d say (the fact that you need a PS5 to play…

I didn’t say it was a problem. That movie had a great cast. Just kind of funny that nearly all of the stars are in this one, too.

Man, they really said “we want a cast like Everything Everywhere All at Once” and then just went and got the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Because, you see, if AGI can exist, it has already happened BILLIONS of years ago. In some other planet. And it has spread, taking over worlds. Just not with guns and lasers, but rather taking over the hosts’ consciousness.

D&D is a highly complex game, and it seems unreasonable to expect a Minecraft adventure pack to be able to fully capture the experience of playing it. There are video games that attempt to do so to at least some degree such as Baldur’s Gate, and the result is a hugely complex playing experience that would likely…

I think the problem is that people are misunderstanding what AI is. Modern commercial AIs are not simulated brains. They aren’t digital beings with thoughts and goals. They are a set of highly complex instructions that aim to provide an appropriate output for a given input, and when they’re done they stop thinking.…

I haven’t heard anyone say Life is Strange is bad. Certainly criticisms of specific aspects of it such as the awkward dialog, but it’s always in the form of “It doesn’t do X very well, but it’s still a great game.”

They did the exact same thing with the home button on the iPhone 7 and on (until they killed it entirely) and honestly it was just fine. No real noticeable difference. Doing the same here is probably an effort to reduce wear on moving parts or improve water resistance--makes sense enough.

Just to be clear, the program didn’t encounter an obstacle and then derive a cunning plan to get around it. The researchers taught it to use TaskRabbit and then told it what to do. It is notable that it was able to converse with a human well enough to convince them to do something, and teaching an AI to operate…

The dog also didn’t clock her as being infected (not that dogs and scans are the same), so my guess is that she only shows up as infected when she’s been recently bitten—within the last few weeks.

That darn snail just won’t let up!

Requiring universal chargers is a huge legislative step in the wider adoption of EVs. It’s a big deal these regulations are being enacted now — not super early, but still somewhat early in the EV game. The availability of chargers is one of the biggest stopping points for many people when it comes to switching to…

I feel like more people need to learn about the AI black box problem. For the uninitiated, it’s basically a problem with machine learning wherein we can know the input (dataset used for training) and output (response to a given prompt) but cannot know exactly how the system arrived at that place. This is a big problem…

It’s a weather balloon. We have those here already.

Real-world stuff is pretty much what the whole game is about. Players have been trying to make versions of themselves, their friends, their families, people they know, characters, etc. for as long as the game has been around. There’s always room for improvement, but don’t pit marginalized groups against each other. 

So far, the show’s main changes from the games seem to come from a really genuine attempt to bring more humanity to the story (and to better leverage a medium where it is less important to have the player interacting with everything that is going on). I’d say they’ve done a great job, and this episode is a testament…

I don’t know the circumstances I was asking a question.