Honestly, it’d be good to get the logistics out of the way now.

Yea yea, and this newfangled technology called the Internet is so underdeveloped that no one’s gonna use it!

https://youtu.be/Wi0Ao-jw5cw?si=LfDSg77-1DgFh-Gb

But AI as it exists right now

That’s the fallacy. We aren’t talking about AI right now but rather what AI is going to look like 4-5 years from now. Think about how much advancement has happened in just the last year. Last year, ChatGPT was barely a thing, and image generation was little better than vague, blobby shapes that took a lot of computing power to create.

It’s absurd to talk about “AI as it exists right now” because within months, “right now” will be horribly outdated.

Back in January, I was showing a colleague ChatGPT 3.5. We asked it to design a corner desk and gave it very little input. It came up with a design that had drawers which would interfere with each other. My colleague has used that example ever since of why AI is dumb and will never be successful.

Like, really? You can’t envision progress beyond the current state of this VERY early tech? I see it all the time on here too. People dismissing AI image generation because it got the fingers wrong, or pointing out various chat responses with errors. To me, it reeks of desperate ignorance. People feel threatened by AI, especially groups like artists. So they point and laugh at it in its current state and go “see, it could NEVER replace a human!”

But it can, and it will. It’s like Blockbuster dismissing streaming sites because they couldn’t possibly have enough variety, and who wants to deal with the internet to watch something? Years later, everyone will be scratching their heads going “how the hell could they not see it coming? It should have been obvious!” And it IS obvious. AI will advance and shake many industries to their core; and not only are creative industries not immune, they’re arguably the most at risk.

Who wants to pay a graphics designer to spend over a week coming up with various mock-up when you could get infinitely more options in a few minutes with an AI program? One of the big points of the recent Hollywood actor/writer strike is opposition to AI. But it’s already too late for that. Studios are ABSOLUTELY going to use AI to replace actors and writers, they’d be crazy not to. Why would you want to use a human that can get tired, have their own opinions/interpretation of things, require pay/royalties, and might do or say something controversial in their lives that causes people to boycott them? Hell, we’ve already replaced animals for the most part. Almost no modern films or shows use real animals anymore, it’s all CGI.

95% of the time, there is a little button/link somewhere near the top of the page that says “Jump to Recipe”. Click that and you’ll go straight to the recipe.

Did you see that Israeli Officer interrupt that live broadcast of a journalist. First threatening him to make sure he’s reporting the “truth” and then walking up to the camera and loudly stating that they were going to wipe out Gaza and exterminate the inhabitants?

That was a military officer. He felt comfortable enough openly stating extermination as the goal on a live broadcast.

Dogs. Dogs on both sides.

You can’t? Look at Disney World or Universal Studios. Sure they have rides, but a lot of it is the experiences involving people’s favorite movies/shows.

I can definitely see people interested if they get that part right.

Imagine getting a drink in a tavern from The Witcher. Or a fancy dinner in a palace setting from The Crown or the mansion from Umbrella Academy. Imagine going through a haunted house based around Hill House. Running an obstacle course from Squid Game. Themed escape rooms or live action shows based off Stranger Things or Black Mirror.

That’s not even getting into merchandising. Sure, people are probably not going to flock to buy a Queen’s Gambit chess set. But Castlevania or Arcane collectibles? Dragon Prince plushies? Literally anything from Netflix’s sizable anime collection?

There’s a lot of ways they could do it wrong. In fact it’s more likely they get it wrong than right. But I’m not going to dismiss the idea right out the gate, I do see the possibilities.

There’s always a secret behind the waterfall, and if there’s not, the game designers are wrong.

Idiots are everywhere.

And then you have certain instances on here that will swarm threads with the asinine claim that places like Russia and China are the really free ones and it’s really Western countries that are totalitarian.

Like, no shit, every country has done/still does awful stuff sometimes, but I’m gonna go with the ones literally arresting people for expressing an opinion are the less free ones.

They’re kids.

He didn’t see any marching bands. Everyone knows you can’t have a parade without a marching band.

The man came in his first day carrying a sink. Now he’s sinking the company. Seems pretty straightforward.

Not really UI, but news websites reporting on a video of something happening. They never just show the God damn video. They have a video player at the top which will show a high school presentation format of what the highlights from the video are, usually overlayed with a soft-spoken person reading out the text.

But the actual video? If you’re lucky, it’s buried 75% of the way down the page in an embedded tweet. Most of the time it’s fucking nowhere.

It would be off the charts in Chinese media too if they had things like free press and didn’t arrest their people for posting things critical of the Chinese government.

Sounds like you might need to kennel train her.

looks at 10 year old Chromecast

Rapists are animals, dumbass.

I’d start playing around with eugenics. Selecting for intelligence, strength, etc. Really see how far you could push humans as a species in just a few generations.

Also, child developmental experiments would be huge. There’s that one study that tried to see if raising a boy and a chimp at the same time would lead to the chimp acting human. It was stopped because the boy started acting like a chimp instead. What if it had continued?