Posts by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ASITagbIfjJAf3YTpo by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-01T16:01:08Z
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@alexjc @Raccoon the (limited, I confess :-) ) research I did to find out what semantic compression might mean in image processing didn‘t show that this term is commonly used. Given the legal battles by frustrated artists we‘re about to witness I feel this is a poor name, because it guides people into the wrong direction. Note that the #stablediffusion model 1.5 contains its knowledge about about 5 billion images in a file size of 5 billion bytes. This is not anything close to compression in…
(DIR) Post #ASITah40wyHE66zPai by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-01T16:03:55Z
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@alexjc @Raccoon the common meaning of that word (and the misunderstanding that lawyers will try to get into the minds of judges). And if I write a page of text about a painting that I see I could call this text semantic compression, and if I‘m precise enough, there might be a good chance that an artist re-creates the painting quite well from my text. But I haven‘t violated any copyright by describing the concepts of the image in text.
(DIR) Post #ASITvXSTrFX0O8NC6K by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-03T05:08:28Z
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@Raccoon @alexjc nothing is taken. If you take something you have it afterwards. But the models of the AI doesn’t contain the images. So rather than take you might write “analyse, keep analysis result, and forget” which is closer to what the AIs do and clearly not something that violates a copyright.
(DIR) Post #ASk1YqZTPCEYqJnvpQ by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-16T15:34:00Z
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@simon @fabrikneu okay this is just 4 interactions on one day, so I have no more evidence and just anecdotes, but my first experience with new bing is great. Much more efficient to get a bot summarise web searches to answer my questions than to eg wade through 100 screens of a Wikipedia article. Yes it’s a tool and not a human. Yes it might behave weird if in a broken state. But probability of wrong answers is much lower if the GTP core only summarises actual web search result content.
(DIR) Post #ASk82v0K5TUb0K5MYK by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-16T16:46:18Z
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@simon @fabrikneu yes, exactly. Time will tell. But I appreciate MS’s effort (perticularly with their history of chat bot scandals) to bring it out, get feedback, improve it. The technology can be changing the way we search.
(DIR) Post #ASsAqCQfqPUQPRiWO0 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-02-07T14:13:28Z
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My favorite relaxing #videogame in a long time is #stablediffusion - can spend hours asking it to paint 100 images of X, and then having a look at them and being astonished by the results.Today: how would different artists of the past paint "a futuristic alien forest completely made from Broccoli" (my son's worst nightmare :-) ).I also got fun results for Marc, Giger and Miro; couldn't say whether Da Vinci and Picasso would be recognizable, don't know their style well enough.
(DIR) Post #AThkow0wTYrEy0dAIq by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-03-17T11:10:53Z
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@ceperez Thanks, excellent points. In AI, it’s also difficult for open source etc. to keep up because training these models costs an enormous amount of money for hardware and the energy to run it.Had to laugh about the comment from the openAI guy that a certain technology is so powerful that it is too dangerous to opensource it.
(DIR) Post #AUla1p7xWJ72h1W0x6 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-04-18T05:19:07Z
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@simon @iagondiscord Great post; love your comparison with an intern. That reflects pretty much my experiments with it. One thing I’m missing is that it’s really good at explaining stuff; I’m using it to improve my limited JavaScript skills, and it can explain REALLY well. On the other side this intern often gets confused as soon as changes in multiple independent classes are required to achieve something.So no, this won’t cost programming jobs. It will make them less tedious.
(DIR) Post #AVRvfkkrSGMAOKuSEi by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-05-08T13:19:06Z
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@garry I believe I have read much of what tech CEOs say about generative AI.“Generative AI will end poverty, they tell us. It will cure all disease. It will solve climate change. It will make our jobs more meaningful and exciting. It will unleash lives of leisure and contemplation, helping us reclaim the humanity we have lost to late capitalist mechanization. It will end loneliness. It will make our governments rational and responsive”Is not something I have read anyone say. Have you?
(DIR) Post #AVRvflW0cy4QkYy6j2 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-05-08T13:20:28Z
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@garry I’m a big fan of Naomi Klein, own two of her books. But without evidence (that I would be happy to read) on her claims I don’t believe she has a point there.
(DIR) Post #AVRvfmrJdEhwuvwdZg by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-05-08T15:38:00Z
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@garry agree completely on the point about the capitalist system. I don’t mind AIs learning from the vast information in the internet but I do mind a few corporations with the server capacity=money to do this monopolising on this key technology for the next decade.
(DIR) Post #AW2wiAdXqc2mrKSIjI by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-05-26T11:56:39Z
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@ringo @mike805 @CheRosach @thatguyoverthere Hmmm I wonder, are all climate scientists on this planet right, or ringo the believer… hm… very hard…
(DIR) Post #AWghty5iSB4yI2GXCq by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-06-14T16:38:55Z
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@taz Ja, gegen RWE, gegen Exxon, etc, gegen Klimaleugner, gegen verantwortliche Politiker, die unsere Zukunft zerstören, muss endlich härter vorgegangen werden. Hochburg findet sich in der FDP-Zentrale. Jetzt mit der ganzen Härte des Rechtsstaats zuschlagen.
(DIR) Post #AY371DG2JKOytL86Rk by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-07-25T08:47:25Z
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Quite a shocker and a wonderful example why critical infrastructure must not be closed source. TLDR: a communication standard used by much critical infrastructure in Europe (I checked: also here in Germany) has serious security issues and a backdoor added on purpose. So hackers can hear and change police, firefighter, … communication and more. Scary.Reminds me of the Thriller book “Blackout”https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor#security #opensource
(DIR) Post #Ac2SVaXwQ5KEeYR1c0 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-11-21T17:34:28Z
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@NatureMC @Christo Very sad to read this and know that here in Germany it is forbidden to eat food that supermarkets have thrown away. Something clearly wrong here. We should follow France’s great legislation. Food is too precious (also from a CO2 perspective) to throw away, even if supermarket revenue drops.
(DIR) Post #AdEmJokHwCsT3YN6m0 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-12-27T14:21:26Z
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@ZDF @guacamole Danke! Aber gleich meckern: wär schön, wenn die Öffis sich die grundlegende Funktionsweise der großen Streaming-Anbieter ansehen würden. Serien schauen macht keinen Spaß. Sortierreihenfolge zufällig (wohl letzt Ausstrahlung statt natürliche Reihenfolge). Oft fehlen Folgen, was mir gerade bei ARD/ZDF-produzierten Folgen, die wir gezahlt haben, ein Mysterium ist. Das wäre super, wenn sich da was verbessern würde.
(DIR) Post #AnKoAZq2aSwNSDUGq8 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2024-10-24T14:52:02Z
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@ErikUden @energisch_ Spitzentruppe. Können jederzeit meine 100 Milliarden haben.
(DIR) Post #ApVwKl7RsFLpP845xY by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2024-12-24T10:23:43Z
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@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology well, but google‘s business model is ads, while apple primarily sells you hardware. Quite a difference. Only very very few apps may send me notifications, and I strictly disable notifications for every app who sends me shit to remind me of their existence. And often the app as well.
(DIR) Post #ApVwKmWee16jlarjt2 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2024-12-24T12:51:53Z
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@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology if ChatGPT did its web search right and I did the math right then 75% of apple‘s revenue is still hardware with the iPhone taking 49%. ads are just 1%(Nb this is not so important to me that I checked ChatGPT‘s web search result, might be wrong)
(DIR) Post #Aw339BBT5uozRvAHyK by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2025-07-12T06:03:53Z
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@rms the good news is that you don’t need to ship wind and solar power anywhere but you need to ship fossil fuel and gas.