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themeatbridge , (edited ) in Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites

Coincidentally, but entirely unrelated, nobody ever legally watched any Comedy Central, CMT, or MTV content ever again.

ValueSubtracted Mod , in StarTrek.website will be down for about ten minutes June 25th at 10AM CST while we do some maintenance in anticipation of updating to Lemmy 19.4
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But my takes will be lukewarm by then, at best...

Admin OP Mod ,

This update should increase the thermal capacity of your takes by .05%

Corgana , in Willie Mays - the 'Say Hey Kid' considered baseball's best all-around player - dies at 93
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RIP. I love that he is Star Trek canon.

aeronmelon , in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission

They rolled a 20 for foresight when they called the ship lost in the Delta Quadrant "Voyager."

No matter how far from home, Voyagers know how to get back to Earth somehow.

Tylerdurdon , in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission

It's a testament to simplicity. Any of our current hardware infra would have just been fuuuuuucked out there.

xnx , in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission
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Can someone save the image and upload it here i cant open the website for some reason

sverit ,
xnx ,
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Thanks!

kamenlady , in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission
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I like to think that the ghost in the machine emerged after the glitch. Maybe a small spark caused by the glitch. Coincidentally Voyager was flying through a Interplanetary dust cloud , loaden with cosmic partcles, one particle was touched by the spark and voila: a new lifeform is created.

Flying forever alone in space.

Stoney_Logica1 ,

Literally the plot of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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brbposting , in Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.

Very nice!!

Voyager developer @aeharding is unbelievable. What an engineer. Dat UX 🤤 (no shade but will say) srsly hard to use the default interface from web when you’ve experienced e.g. Voyager iOS.

aeharding ,
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Thanks 💜

ValueSubtracted Mod , in Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.
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Time to start growing that beard...

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HubertManne , in AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

but ai has electrolytes!

M0oP0o ,
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It's what plants crave!

Blaster_M , (edited ) in AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
disguy_ovahea , in AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

I don’t just want AI news to fail, I want it to take the web-scraping trending post news bots down with it.

Bring investigative journalists back to news media.

ValueSubtracted OP Mod ,
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preach

Corgana ,
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Been very impressed by the quality of reporting by 404 Media and they seem to be making it work financially so feeling cautiously optimistic!

FiskFisk33 ,

noo, this one dude on twitter said the state of contemporary journalism is great

vk6flab , in AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
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What will it take until people get it through their thick skulls that ChatGPT isn't intelligent, doesn't learn and is a tool that can only generate plausible gibberish.

Using the same tools to detect such gibberish will give you more gibberish.

Garbage in, Garbage out has been true since the difference engine, it's just that today the garbage smells like English words, still garbage, but not knowledge, intelligence or anything like it.

The machine learning approach for building models, used to produce so called large language models like ChatGPT is also used to create weather forecasting models that are bigger, better and orders of magnitude faster than available until now.

The tools have changed life, but I'm unconvinced that it's a suitable, sustainable or realistic way to create artificial intelligence, despite claims to the contrary.

Bye ,

Nothing, it seems close enough to most that they actually can’t think about it any other way apart from human.

scrubbles ,
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People are so insistent that it's ai that it all reminds me of Blockchain. It's new! It'll change everything!

It'll change some things. What we are seeing now is business forcing it into everything when really, right now, there are only a handful of things it makes sense to use.

It's really great at giving you a starting point a very rough outline of something. That is the easy part. The hard part is turning that into something new and coherent, and for that I think modern AI is nowhere close. That needs a human

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I think it's definitely a bubble that will burst eventually.

At the same time, I don't think there's any way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. This technology is out there, and even once the hype has died down, we're going to be dealing with it forever.

Daxtron2 ,

It is by definition AI

scrubbles ,
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In the sense that AI is an extremely general term that involves many different technologies, yes. Generative AI/LLMs are not true AGI, which is what people think it is. It cannot think, it cannot learn, it can only predict.

snooggums ,
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People think it AI intelligence is comparable to how a hovercraft hovers, as in the word is taken literally, but it is actually comparable to a Hoverboard.

scrubbles ,
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That's actually pretty good... the techbro equivalent of "We did it!"

logi ,

It cannot think, it cannot learn, it can only predict.

That's a distinction without a difference. If it can predict what a AGI would do in a given situation, then it is an AGI.

I'm not saying that it is an AGI, but the reason it it isn't is more than "it can only predict".

gravitas_deficiency ,

Nobody who’s not an engineer seems to give a shit - or, indeed, even understand - the nuance of LLM technology, or the technical reasons behind its limitations and the implications thereof. Hell, I know a lot of engineers who don’t care or understand it at a meaningful level.

stoly ,

And some of the engineering types are busy kissing the feet of people like Altman and Musk so they don't get a chance to even notice.

stoly ,

I manage computing for a large university. One of my recently graduated students told me that he thought that technology just worked until he worked for me and saw the problems that come up. He was already a very tech-aware person and is going for a PhD in Infomatics, so if even he didn't understand this, then what can we expect from the general public?

StillPaisleyCat , in No Deal: Shari Redstone Ends Talks On Skydance Offer for Paramount Global
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Some interesting stuff in this article.

It looks like Skydance thought that getting the non-voting class B Paramount shareholders on board would put pressure on the voting ones.

But it seems like Redstone was sensitive to the minority group of voting shareholders and that they were not on side. That is, it wasn’t enough to have the Redstones as the majority holders of class A NAI shares, and the majority of non-voting class B Paramount shareholders, Shari Redstone felt she had to have sufficient support from the minority of voting NAI shareholders to avoid problems such as accusations of imposing losses on a group.

“According to a source familiar with the talks, Redstone’s request for a “majority of the minority” vote, in which other Class A shareholders could vote to approve or nix the deal, was a nonstarter for Skydance, and the studio was anticipating a regulatory review of more than a year, which gave Redstone pause given the constraints it would have required of the business in the meantime.”

Psychodelic , in In honor of the late William Anders, here's a really great video on the "Earthrise" photo and how improbable it is that we have it at all

Hey OP, thanks a lot for making this post! I appreciate you giving me an outlet for my mental illness the opportunity to let you, and any other users here, know that I actually really prefer graphic novels.

OP, would you kindly consider adapting the information presented in this video into a graphic novel (in color, of course) so I can consume the infoyou found interesting in my preferred format? Also, one of my cousins is deaf , so could you make a copy of the graphic novel in sign language, too?

I hope it's as interesting as I imagine. I haven't clicked on it yet since I don't want to spoil anything in the graphic novel adaptation

Sorry. Just having fun. Some people on this site are legit interesting characters, to put it nicely

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