Truly the wackiest of birbs. They’re so cute.

Damn, imagine the levels of segregation, speciesm and genocide we would see if other human species had thrived and grown like us.

It may also be correlated with the population, though. Specifically the working age population.

I imagine that, as populations decrease and you have fewer people available to actually do any research, technological advancement also stagnates and slows down. If populations ever start increasing again in the future, then I imagine technological development will grow as well

But I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem that can’t be solved. LLM and so on are ultimately simply statistical analysis, and if you refine it and train it enough, it can absolutely summarise at least one paper at the moment. Google’s Notebook LM is already capable of it, I just don’t think it can quite pull off many of them yet. But the current state of LLMs is not that far off.

I agree with AIs being way over hyped and also just having a general dislike for them due to the way they’re being used, the people who gush over them, and the surrounding culture. But I don’t think that means we should simply ignore reality altogether. The LLMs from 2 or even 1 year ago are not even comparable to the ones today, and that trend will probably keep going that way for a while. The main issue lies with the ethics of training, copyright, and of course, the replacement of labor in exchange of what amounts to simply a cool tool.

The problem is that you do need to keep training models for this to make sense.

And you always need at least some human editorialization of models, otherwise the model will just say whatever, learn from itself and degrade over time. This cannot be done by other AIs, so for now you still need humans to make sure the AI models are actually getting useful information.

The problem with this, which many have already pointed out, is that it makes AIs just as unreliable as any traditional media. But if you don’t oversee their datasets at all and just allow them to learn from everything then they’re even more useless, basically just replicating social media bullshit, which nowadays is like at least 60% AI generated anyway.

So yeah, the current model is, not surprisingly, completely unsustainable.

The technology itself is great though. Imagine having an AI that you can easily train at home on 100s of different academic papers, and then run specific analyses or find patterns that would be too big for humans to see at first. Also imagine the impact to the medical field with early cancer detection or virus spreading patterns, or even DNA analysis for certain diseases.

It’s also super good if used for creative purposes (not for just generating pictures or music). So for example, AI makes it possible for you to sing a song, then sing the melody for every member of a choir, and fine tune all voices to make them unique. You can be your own choir, making a lot of cool production techniques more accessible.

I believe once the initial hype dies down, we stop seeing AI used as a cheap marketing tactic, and the bubble bursts, the real benefits of AI will become apparent, and hopefully we will learn to live with it without destroying each other lol.

Isn’t it better to have specific stations where you can leave them and pick them back up?

I’ve seen that model in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, and people still absolutely use them all the time and they don’t make as much of a mess. It’s pretty good.

Isnt Jupiter mostly gas/liquid with only a solid core?

This is pretty common in China. My Chinese classmates say that some of their friends quit their jobs as teachers because they wanted to travel abroad and have a passport.

It’s been that way for a long time apparently, only made more evident now by the increasing relevance of Chinese geopolitics and their stronger economy compared to their neighbours

Done btw!

What can I say? Us Spanish speakers love our own language.

Hey fair enough, I’m also a native so we’re aligned there lol

I’d be happy to go back to 2011

I’d be happy to take over Spanish if that’s okay

Japan is still a treasure trove to this day for magazine enjoyers. If you ever stop by Tokyo, I genuinely suggest you visit Jinbocho and take a look at all the used magazines from the 80’s and 90’s. They have absolutely wonderful complete collections for minimal cost.

That sounds reasonable, yeah. Basically, the reason most people here are boycotting the US US is because they have become untrustworthy and giving money to their corporations is looking more and more like supporting their government as well. But individual 1:1 interactions can be different, obviously.

For physical goods, yeah, but for software and digital stuff, the United States is already too compromised. I wouldn’t trust anything developed there.

It’s part of a more anti-intellectual movement in the United States, where the arts and humanities are frequently dismissed as “useless” because these people fail to understand that introspection, the creation of culture and the understanding of ourselves is in itself just as fundamental to human happiness and a fulfilling existence as the economy they’re so hellbent on defending.

If you have an amazon.jp account, you can also buy Japanese books for the kindle for a pretty low price. Though obviously Kindle books aren’t something you really own, so I prefer them for stuff I’m okay eventually losing.

And also Twitter is by far the biggest social network in Japan. There’s no chance at all.

It also wasn’t an issue with the GB and DS lines, and the Switch notoriously follows the handheld pattern quite closely, so I don’t think this will be an issue.