Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
So far. Since Terminators are capable humanoid robots and the goal is to make capable humanoid robots each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator. And also like every other capable humanoid robot from other sci-fi as well, good bad or neutral.
The only reason to leap to “OMG it’s a Terminator!” Is to bait the clicks.
Wheeled robots have been the norm for decades, we didn’t skip that.
You have an overly broad definition of “doomsday machine.”
I’d say “found the bot”, but even bots are familiar with why boobs appeal to human sensibilities.
What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a “straight-up Terminator”?
In theory, they can pass this with a veto-proof majority.
In practice, you may have spotted a flaw in the US Constitution here. I’ll add it to the pile.
Chatting with fictional characters via AI is nothing new.
That’s not reflected in the music billboards or the traffic going to various AI providers.
I have yet to see Firefox “throw bench saws in my face”, as it were. It’s been adding options to various menus. There are plenty of features Firefox has added over the years that I don’t use, for example I don’t use container tabs, but I don’t think Firefox has “thrown them in my face”; they’re just an option sitting in the file menu that I never click on.
A lot of people get offended by the mere existence of AI-driven tools, though, and interpret their existence as it being “thrown in their face.” This puts them at odds with folks like me who use them, or at least want to try them out, because the only way to satisfy them would inherently leave me unsatisfied.
I haven’t had the chance to test out this specific feature yet so I can’t speak to it specifically, but I’ve found it extremely handy being able to “interrogate” the contents of a web page using an LLM to specifically summarize whatever particular details I’m after from it. I still miss Firefox’s “Orbit” extension for how it could summarize the content of Youtube videos, that was great for situations where someone would link an hour-long video to back up some argument they were making. Or just generally deciding whether it was worth watching an hour-long video, or skipping to whatever the basic point of the video was without all the irrelevant cruft.
In another thread on this subject I mentioned how I’ve lately found that Copilot is quite handy at creating quick Tampermonkey scripts to do tasks on specific web pages. It’d be nice if that was integrated directly into the browser, so that I could ask it for a script to do a task and it would have access to the page’s source as context while creating it.
Current AI features are fairly simple, but I think the technology’s got plenty of neat new applications coming in the near future. It frustrates me how many people want those applications to be limited to corporate-controlled browsers like Edge or Chrome.
I want it, so “nobody wants it” is wrong.
If you’re wondering why it seems like nobody wants it, just watch the downvote counter on this comment.
It’s also going to make it really easy to take down the content you don’t like, just accuse it of being AI and watch the witch hunting roll in. I’ve seen plenty of examples of traditional artists getting accused of using AI in other forums, I don’t imagine this will be any different.
So “I know it when I see it” rules, rather than anything rigorously defined.
Assuming this gets any traction at all the witch hunts will be rampant.
I think that’s exactly what he’s saying.
There is. luarocks is basically the “pip” equivalent for lua, it installs packages (called “rocks”) and manages dependencies. These packages can extend lua with all sorts of practical capabilities.
I do have to give kudos to the mods here, though. Even though my comment was extremely unpopular they’ve removed the responses to it where people were outright insulting me for making it.
It may surprise you to learn that I’m not actually involved in making this decision. I’m not in the EU at all so not even in a voting capacity.
This is the original commenter justifying why the EU is attempting to loosen their privacy laws.
Not justifying why, explaining why. I was giving the reason why I think they’re doing this.
Lots of people hate that it’s being done, so any reasoning behind it is being interpreted as support for it. But I’m not in the EU, I have no skin in this game at all one way or the other, it doesn’t matter to me whether this change is made. I’m just pointing out why I wasn’t surprised this change was made. The GDPR is hindering AI training and AI is a really big thing right now. The AI training stuff wasn’t mentioned in the summary so my mention in the comments is presenting something that other readers might not be aware of.
The response has frankly been ridiculous. I didn’t include the obligatory “oooh, I hate AI so much!” Flags in my comment, and so this has turned into a huge waste of time as everyone piles on about that rather than about the actual changes to the GDPR the thread was supposedly about.
And we’re well past the statute of limitations now, so a mistrial means the end of the matter.