Computers and stuff...

[flecc]

The human brain has about 100 billion neurons so they have some way to go but I guess it wouldn't be long until humans will only live with their brain, their body discarded.

That will depend on the machines suppying what the brains need to flourish, but in that respect we are going backwards.

Way back in 1965 Harold Wilson as PM spoke of the impending age of leisure, where there woudn't be enough work to go round due to computing, automation and robots. So we'd have to learn to live with a lifetime of mostly leisure.

Yet here we are worldwide, 58 years later, with a much larger workforce, everyone working longer than ever, with much longer lives, ever later retirement ages, a UK government desperately trying to get everyone to work to the rising limit age and disapproving of early retirement.

What the hell happened to that promised "age of leisure"?
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[Woosh]

What the hell happened to that promised "age of leisure"?

my doctors tell me that I must keep active, so I carry on working.

 

[flecc]

my doctors tell me that I must keep active, so I carry on working.

They must be undercover government agents, doing their dirty work for them. The threats will start later when they start asking you if you used a rubber boat when you came here from France.

Tomorrow they are once again stealing an hour of sleep from us as we have to move the clocks forward. It's a softening up process, once we get more used to it they'll start doing it during the week to get an extra hours work from us.
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[guerney]

Has anyone tried out Stable Diffusion yet?

No but I've been using an algorithm I developed for commercial gain since 2004, analogous to how Gaussian diffusion is used by the ingenious Stable Diffusion. No longer occupying any of the intellectual playgrounds of academia, I'd only use AI for profit in some way, which seems unlikely at present.

What will society look like if everyone had their very own unique offline AI life coach/personal assistants/accountants/Jeeves/teacher/slave on their phones? If home grown wasn't as good, the wealthiest would buy the best, the rest might have to rent. Human wetware and artificial wetware will eventually merge, which opens opportunities for makers of custom bike helmets accommodating protuding wetware AI tumour shaped augmentations cut into human skulls, grafted onto our brains.

 

[Woosh]

Me: an astronaut riding an electric bike on mars artstation, hd, dramatic lighting, detailed
Bot took 3 seconds to generate this picture:

It didn't get the placement of the legs and arms right but still quite impressive.

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In the future, you'll have to learn to speak AI English.

 

[guerney]

Same query, added "correctly" after "riding" but the atronaut's leg is buggered:




Absolutely useless to me, is AI at present.

 

[guerney]

"high powered super fast dream electric bicycle with massive motor in the style of steampunk with the rider being an elephant with a giraffe's head smoking a bong containing snails"



Like I said, useless.

 

[Woosh]

Like I said, useless.

I can see possibilities. I am looking for online service that can import your illustrator or 3D paint objects into the scene. I have signed up to test MS Designer.

 

[guerney]

I can see possibilities. I am looking for online service that can import your illustrator or 3D paint objects into the scene. I have signed up to test MS Designer.

If you find a scene you like, you can get it AI upscaled, for a person per hour to do a reasonable job, many of which will be out of a job as these tools improve:

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[guerney]

Content generation will explode, the internet will be awash with rapidly generated cruddy AI content. And there's no reliable way as yet to filter AI content out. Very soon, when social network algorithms start processing bot AI content, there will be ever more horrific political effects.

 

[guerney]

I have signed up to test MS Designer.

If that could produce results 70% of the way there, for people to adjust (if solutions were provided in layers), and if that product was priced attractively, I think that could do well, but not if results need major adjustment to make it useful by a (more costly) skilled human... if results are only vaguely useful, all they'd do is help create the barebones of a concept guide for the human, which anyone can cobble together themselves anyway using words and/or pictures/backs of fag packets. I can't see it being useful - yet - for businesses for which quality artwork is vital, or when messaging is complex. Keep us informed. I wonder if you will be giving them rights over all your data accessible by Microsoft, hidden by doublespeak in the Ts and Cs, to use as training data? It's the same concern I had about signing up to Google's Bard. But they're probably using all that already, plus what I've just typed.

 

[guerney]

"high powered super fast dream electric bicycle with massive motor in the style of steampunk with the rider being an elephant with a giraffe's head smoking a bong containing snails"

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Like I said, useless.

second attempt using "complete three point perspective view of high powered super fast dream electric bicycle with massive motor in the style of steampunk with the rider being an elephant with a giraffe's head smoking a bong containing snails 4k"

 

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[soundwave]

they even used fkn security screws for the cover 20 years ago

 

[soundwave]

I can see possibilities. I am looking for online service that can import your illustrator or 3D paint objects into the scene. I have signed up to test MS Designer.

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[Woosh]

I found Nvidia Canvas. It's very clever, it lets you export to psd with all the layers. Open AI Plus has also released a bunch of updates. You can upload your data, jpegs and videos, it will use them and your web browser to access the Internet. I wonder what the world will be like when my grand children grow up and I won't be there to see it.

 

[soundwave]

I found Nvidia Canvas. It's very clever, it lets you export to psd with all the layers. Open AI Plus has just released a bunch of updates. You can upload your data, jpegs and videos, it will use them and your web browser to access the Internet. I wonder what the world will be like when my grand children grow up and I won't be there to see it.

Assimilation. Assimilation is the process by which the Borg integrate beings, cultures, and technology into the Collective. "You will be assimilated" is one of the few on-screen phrases employed by the Borg when communicating with other species.

that's called a universal credit claim made on line and do as you are told bitch

if you ring the local jcp or there providers you can get some slaves to work for free and get paid for it

 

[Woosh]

Did you sort out the aerial connection?

 

[soundwave]

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