@marquisdegeek

Make sure to give Hugh advance warning of the need for sound equipment if you're coming on to music.

@bootblackcub

Nice tat!

down with Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

@james

https://youtu.be/2y1gakl4IEw

There are actually a lot of videos about making circular knitting machines.

@fesshole

I love giving people lifts, I'm just a bad driver.

@nicopap

It's a nice idea but image algorithms aren't modelling the world, they're modelling pictures, and often the contiguity of the model doesn't even last a single frame of generation.

Example:

https://youtu.be/160F8F8mXlo

AI can't render a full glass of wine because it has never seen one. It has no concept of containers or liquid.

You might think "ahh, but if its seen everything you've ever done maybe it will be able to replicate your decision process" and to be charitable, that is the big valid fear of creatives. Except that if you ask an AI for a response to a prompt it won't predict what you would say, because it cant predict what it would say.

If you ask it a question 10 times it will say 10 different answers, and if you correct it, it will just generate another guess.

It doesn't even know it's wrong.

Like people think LLMs are going to become skynet but their whole thing is just trying to figure out one word, based on everything that came before. If its output appears to have any kind of driving intention towards something, thats purely because the training data had examples of that structure.

Everything it does is an attempt to reproduce the things it has already seen, with a little added randomness to make it interesting.

How would that translate into any kind of anticipation?

Last night I was thinking about AI, specifically the one in the TV show neXt starring John Slattery. Not the movie Next, starring Nicolas Cage, although both films revolve around the notion of prescience.

In neXt the rogue AI is consistently one step ahead of the experts tracking it down because, much like Nicholas Cage in Next, it can anticipate the moves made against it and prepare for them.

This is a common trope in superintelligence plots.

But the peak of current AI can't do it.

@anon_opin

You know, if you hadn't posted this anonymously then an actor from a Tesco advert looking for a twin of their own and reached out.

Ya dingus.

@mcc

Not even on poutine?

@abraxas

Less transactions
More trans actions

@marquisdegeek

You might think that was part of the joke, but I couldn't possibly comment.

@Modernmodron

What if every zombie made two smaller zombies recursively until the map was consumed by a flood of nanozombies? The green goo theory.

@kauzerei @mcc

I typically don't bother with actual industrial CAD tools, I design all my 3D prints in Blender.

@AzulCrescent

I got mine from my dad.

@jasongorman

At least LLMs can't do the cooking.

They can't really do the coding either but people sure are trying...

Im glad to see gravy discourse catching on because it's time to say it like it is:

Gravy is brown and derives flavour from a stock.

American gravy is grey and tastes of absolutely nothing.

American gravy should be called grey-V

#gravy