“Have you accepted the al pastor into your heart?”

That’s sweet she came in from Canada to visit him.

Just means wesker will need to marry an AI.

Ok, but what variable is 🐈?

This is one of those things where I truly don’t care if it’s real or not, as my life is better for knowing about it either way.

It’s the scene from Total Recall where the character in the top comment keeps repeating the phrase “Open your mind…”

You kind of just described the subplot of The Brothers Sun.

I’ve found that a lot of times people who are very interested in a given topic will see it everywhere they look, and as such, shove it into any conversation possible.

“What did you do during your trip to Egypt?” “We visited the pyramids.” “You know, aliens may have built those.”

It can get old very fast.

I’m certainly guilty of this and as someone with fairly nuanced interests that touch on common topics, am regularly asking myself if it’s contextually appropriate to bring up my particular perspective in a discussion.

You literally jumped in on a quotation of a movie in response to a screenshot of that movie to try and have a discussion of Buddhist principles.

Maybe you could do better at knowing your audience and reading the room?

Wooosh

Open your mind…

Open your mind…

Open your mind…

The outfits are a bit anachronistic given the events allegedly took place in 10th century BCE Judea.

I mean, there are good uses as well. Just as an example:

• Providing helpful information: People are looking for information to reduce their environmental footprint. Fuel-efficient routing in Google Maps uses AI to suggest routes that have fewer hills, less traffic, and constant speeds with the same or similar ETA. Since launching in October 2021, fuel-efficient routing is estimated to have helped prevent more than 2.4 million metric tons of CO2e emissions — the equivalent of taking approximately 500,000 fuel-based cars off the road for a year.
• Predicting climate-related events: Floods are the most common natural disaster, causing thousands of fatalities and disrupting the lives of millions every year. Since 2018, Google Research has been working on our flood forecasting initiative, which uses advanced AI and geospatial analysis to provide real-time flooding information so communities and individuals can prepare for and respond to riverine floods. Our Flood Hub platform is available to more than 80 countries, providing forecasts up to seven days in advance for 460 million people.
• Optimizing climate action: Contrails — the thin, white lines you sometimes see behind airplanes — have a surprisingly large impact on our climate. The 2022 IPCC report noted that contrail clouds account for roughly 35% of aviation’s global warming impact — which is over half the impact of the world’s jet fuel. Google Research teamed up with American Airlines and Breakthrough Energy to bring together huge amounts of data — like satellite imagery, weather and flight path data — and used AI to develop contrail forecast maps to test if pilots can choose routes that avoid creating contrails. After these test flights, we found that the pilots reduced contrails by 54%.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/report-ai-sustainability-google-cop28/

Even something like household phantom power currently uses more energy than AI at data centers.

I’m all for putting pressure on corporate climate impact and finally putting to rest the propaganda of personal responsibility dreamt up by lobbyists, but I don’t know that ‘AI’ is the right Boogeyman here.

Let them eat C8.

Yep. A bit like a 7 day publicly displayed tracker of days on a 28 day lunar calendar cycle.

Was “I am the God of your Father” an editorial attempt to distinguish the deity from the gods of Egypt, or from the god of a Mother?

There’s some pretty odd details in that book, like in Isaac’s supposed patriarchal blessing which discussed “the sons of your mother bow down to you” or it being the only place there’s the male form of gebirah (“Great Lady”) - a title first applied in the text to Isaac’s mother whose name is based on the word for ‘chief.’ Who is supposedly later followed by a figure ‘Deborah’ (‘bee’) who is a leader of the people around the time we now know bees were being imported into Tel Rehov and regularly requeened to avoid genetic drift with local bee populations. Also weird that the events regarding a “land of milk and honey” supposedly take place in a land with no honey and only one discovered apiary.

That apiary gets burned down right around the time Asa allegedly deposed his grandmother the gebirah (“Great Lady”).

Well, it would have still existed, just been pretty distant from what it is today.

More “everything is permissible” (1 Cor 10:23) and less “God will destroy both stomach and food” (1 Cor 6:13).

It’s literally instructed to do AdLibs with ethnic identities to diversify prompts for images of people.

You can see how it’s just inserting the ethnicity right before the noun in each case.

Was a very poor alignment strategy. This already blew up for Dall-E. Was Google not paying attention to their competitors’ mistakes?

Indeed - there’s a very good argument for using synthetic data to introduce diversity as long as you can avoid model collapse.

Exactly. I wish people had a better understanding of what’s going on technically.

It’s not that the model itself has these biases. It’s that the instructions given them are heavy handed in trying to correct for an inversely skewed representation bias.

So the models are literally ok instructed things like “if generating a person, add a modifier to evenly represent various backgrounds like Black, South Asian…”

Here you can see that modifier being reflected back when the prompt is shared before the image.

It’s like an ethnicity AdLibs the model is being instructed to fill out whenever generating people.

Wait - you can peel them!?!

Drink of his blood and be saved (from dehydration).