What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

***Official Artificial Intelligence (AI) Thread*** Latest: US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (1 Viewer)

Ive started using it exclusively for work. I just have the $25 paid version.

I have been "training it" so now it sends me email updates every Monday about projects Im looking at. It also now drafts me emails for me to approve before sending.


Do any of you used this version and have any tips/ideas to make it more proficient?
 
Any re-occurring/regular podcasts that cover AI to learn about advancements/use cases, how companies are using it, etc. that isn't so data science focused where it's hard to understand.
 
Any re-occurring/regular podcasts that cover AI to learn about advancements/use cases, how companies are using it, etc. that isn't so data science focused where it's hard to understand.
Anything with Ethan Mollick should be about right for what you’re looking for. I don’t think he has his own podcast but does have a regular email newsletter.
 
For you D&D Nerds, I just rolled a level 1 character, complete with backstory and played part of a campaign. Took all of 30 second to set up.

Character Sheet (Quick Start)

Name: Eamon the *******
Class & Level: Wizard 1
Race: Human (let’s keep it simple unless you want a twist)
Background: Outlander (wanderer, ******* son of someone important but disowned)
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (rebellious streak, but curious about the world)

Stats (standard array: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8)

STR: 8 (not strong)

DEX: 14 (nimble enough)

CON: 13 (average health)

INT: 15 (your spellcasting power)

WIS: 12 (fairly observant)

CHA: 10 (people skills are meh — you are “the *******” after all)

Proficiencies

Skills: Arcana, Survival, Investigation, Intimidation

Weapons: Daggers, quarterstaff, light crossbow

Languages: Common, Elvish

Gear

Spellbook

Quarterstaff

Dagger

Explorer’s pack (bedroll, rations, tinderbox, etc.)

Spells

Cantrips: Fire Bolt, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand
1st-level Spells (2 slots): Magic Missile, Shield, Sleep, Detect Magic (prepared: Magic Missile + Sleep)

Campaign Start: "The *******’s Beginning"

The smell of wet earth clings to the small town of Black Hollow. You, Aman the *******, have drifted here on rumors of ancient ruins buried beneath the hills — and perhaps the treasure or secrets that lie within. But something is wrong: townsfolk speak in hushed whispers of disappearances, strange lights in the old mine, and shadows moving where no shadow should be.

As you sit in the smoky tavern, the barkeep eyes you warily. A group of nervous miners huddle in the corner, whispering. A cloaked stranger with a scar down his cheek approaches your table, places a sealed letter before you, and says only:

“If you truly are Eamon the *******, then you’re the only one who can deal with this.”

He leaves without another word.
 
For you D&D Nerds, I just rolled a level 1 character, complete with backstory and played part of a campaign. Took all of 30 second to set up.

Character Sheet (Quick Start)

Name: Eamon the *******
Class & Level: Wizard 1
Race: Human (let’s keep it simple unless you want a twist)
Background: Outlander (wanderer, ******* son of someone important but disowned)
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (rebellious streak, but curious about the world)

Stats (standard array: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8)

STR: 8 (not strong)

DEX: 14 (nimble enough)

CON: 13 (average health)

INT: 15 (your spellcasting power)

WIS: 12 (fairly observant)

CHA: 10 (people skills are meh — you are “the *******” after all)

Proficiencies

Skills: Arcana, Survival, Investigation, Intimidation

Weapons: Daggers, quarterstaff, light crossbow

Languages: Common, Elvish

Gear

Spellbook

Quarterstaff

Dagger

Explorer’s pack (bedroll, rations, tinderbox, etc.)

Spells

Cantrips: Fire Bolt, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand
1st-level Spells (2 slots): Magic Missile, Shield, Sleep, Detect Magic (prepared: Magic Missile + Sleep)

Campaign Start: "The *******’s Beginning"

The smell of wet earth clings to the small town of Black Hollow. You, Aman the *******, have drifted here on rumors of ancient ruins buried beneath the hills — and perhaps the treasure or secrets that lie within. But something is wrong: townsfolk speak in hushed whispers of disappearances, strange lights in the old mine, and shadows moving where no shadow should be.

As you sit in the smoky tavern, the barkeep eyes you warily. A group of nervous miners huddle in the corner, whispering. A cloaked stranger with a scar down his cheek approaches your table, places a sealed letter before you, and says only:

“If you truly are Eamon the *******, then you’re the only one who can deal with this.”

He leaves without another word.
Are you playing solo with AI (I assume Chat GPT) as DM?
 
For you D&D Nerds, I just rolled a level 1 character, complete with backstory and played part of a campaign. Took all of 30 second to set up.

Character Sheet (Quick Start)

Name: Eamon the *******
Class & Level: Wizard 1
Race: Human (let’s keep it simple unless you want a twist)
Background: Outlander (wanderer, ******* son of someone important but disowned)
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (rebellious streak, but curious about the world)

Stats (standard array: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8)

STR: 8 (not strong)

DEX: 14 (nimble enough)

CON: 13 (average health)

INT: 15 (your spellcasting power)

WIS: 12 (fairly observant)

CHA: 10 (people skills are meh — you are “the *******” after all)

Proficiencies

Skills: Arcana, Survival, Investigation, Intimidation

Weapons: Daggers, quarterstaff, light crossbow

Languages: Common, Elvish

Gear

Spellbook

Quarterstaff

Dagger

Explorer’s pack (bedroll, rations, tinderbox, etc.)

Spells

Cantrips: Fire Bolt, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand
1st-level Spells (2 slots): Magic Missile, Shield, Sleep, Detect Magic (prepared: Magic Missile + Sleep)

Campaign Start: "The *******’s Beginning"

The smell of wet earth clings to the small town of Black Hollow. You, Aman the *******, have drifted here on rumors of ancient ruins buried beneath the hills — and perhaps the treasure or secrets that lie within. But something is wrong: townsfolk speak in hushed whispers of disappearances, strange lights in the old mine, and shadows moving where no shadow should be.

As you sit in the smoky tavern, the barkeep eyes you warily. A group of nervous miners huddle in the corner, whispering. A cloaked stranger with a scar down his cheek approaches your table, places a sealed letter before you, and says only:

“If you truly are Eamon the *******, then you’re the only one who can deal with this.”

He leaves without another word.
Are you playing solo with AI (I assume Chat GPT) as DM?

This was just a trial run to see how it worked so it was just myself playing a one person campaign, but it was pretty darn close to what the real thing is like.

Myself and three other dudes get together about four times a year to drink and play games. We hired a DM to come and run the campaign for us and that was pretty fun, but involves a lot more role-play than I care to do. I’m very creative inwardly. Pretending to be a bard or wizard and actually role-playing. It is a bit corny for me to pull off. I don’t knock others who enjoy it. It’s just not my bag.

We tend to stick to the premade DND box campaigns that come with the board and the cards and stuff like that. (Ravenloft and Drizzit(?) ).

We usually end the night with a few games of super fights!
 
I had to write about 20 biographies for executives. They all filled out a 10-question questionnaire by hand, and sent me the pdf or even some just took a picture of it. A few were fairly bad handwriting too.

ChatGPT could easily read every one, and spit out a nice starter bio for each. I had tailored my prompts to get the tone I wanted, then spent a bit of time with each massaging them, but the bottom line is a project that may have taken me a week took a day. And in checking, it was perfect in reading the handwriting. I was impressed.

AI decimated copywriting, but it's also making my remaining work much easier/faster. It gets better and better daily.
 
I had to write about 20 biographies for executives. They all filled out a 10-question questionnaire by hand, and sent me the pdf or even some just took a picture of it. A few were fairly bad handwriting too.

ChatGPT could easily read every one, and spit out a nice starter bio for each. I had tailored my prompts to get the tone I wanted, then spent a bit of time with each massaging them, but the bottom line is a project that may have taken me a week took a day. And in checking, it was perfect in reading the handwriting. I was impressed.

AI decimated copywriting, but it's also making my remaining work much easier/faster. It gets better and better daily.

My biggest complaint is the repetitive confirmations after every question.

“Absolutely! Just let me know if you have any more questions, I’m here to help, OK then. “
 
  • Laughing
Reactions: jwb
The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group threat researchers also unveil evidence that the pro-Putin posters known as CopyCop, aka Storm-1516, use self-hosted, uncensored LLMs based on Meta's Llama 3 open-source models to generate at least some of these fictional news stories.
the GRU reportedly funds the LLM servers that "almost certainly" rewrite articles from legitimate news sites to post on its fake media outlets, and also create deepfakes and other false content targeting political leaders in the US, Ukraine, France, and other countries, Insikt Group said.
Since January, the researchers have uncovered at least 200 new websites that they attribute to CopyCop. "These websites are almost all impersonating fictional local media outlets in the US, France, Canada, and Norway, political parties and movements in France, Canada, and Armenia, or fictional fact-checking organizations publishing in Turkish, Ukrainian, and Swahili," the report notes.
 
This was just a trial run to see how it worked so it was just myself playing a one person campaign, but it was pretty darn close to what the real thing is like.

Myself and three other dudes get together about four times a year to drink and play games. We hired a DM to come and run the campaign for us and that was pretty fun, but involves a lot more role-play than I care to do. I’m very creative inwardly. Pretending to be a bard or wizard and actually role-playing. It is a bit corny for me to pull off. I don’t knock others who enjoy it. It’s just not my bag.

We tend to stick to the premade DND box campaigns that come with the board and the cards and stuff like that. (Ravenloft and Drizzit(?) ).

We usually end the night with a few games of super fights!

I agree with this. It has been a couple years now but we did a 5e dnd campaign. All middle age fathers in the group. We were very light on the actual role play, more into the problem solving and combat.

We also play premade box sets, we chose the Tiamet campaign. I do like 5e quite a bit though.
 
I still haven't found a killer use case for AI in my work. I still use Excel for quick and dirty calculations. There's no way AI can do the sort of mechanical engineering design work necessary right now. Sure, some interesting and possibly optimized shape generation, but that's aint much.
 
I still haven't found a killer use case for AI in my work. I still use Excel for quick and dirty calculations. There's no way AI can do the sort of mechanical engineering design work necessary right now. Sure, some interesting and possibly optimized shape generation, but that's aint much.
Im in the same boat, only in structural. Our company is now pushing for us to use copilot as much as possible so I started giving that a try. There's just not that much use for PowerPoint and meeting notes for what I do to replace excel or other things that I have been able to figure out.
Add in the fact that we shouldn't be uploading client documents and I really cant find a use for it.
 
AI teaching AI


Artificial intelligence models can secretly transmit dangerous inclinations to one another like a contagion, a recent study found. Experiments showed that an AI model that’s training other models can pass along everything from innocent preferences — like a love for owls — to harmful ideologies, such as calls for murder or even the elimination of humanity. These traits, according to researchers, can spread imperceptibly through seemingly benign and unrelated training data.
Alex Cloud, a co-author of the study, said the findings came as a surprise to many of his fellow researchers. “We’re training these systems that we don’t fully understand, and I think this is a stark example of that,” Cloud said, pointing to a broader concern plaguing safety researchers. “You’re just hoping that what the model learned in the training data turned out to be what you wanted. And you just don’t know what you’re going to get.”
They conducted their testing by creating a “teacher” model trained to exhibit a specific trait. That model then generated training data in the form of number sequences, code snippets or chain-of-thought reasoning, but any explicit references to that trait were rigorously filtered out before the data was fed to a “student” model. Yet the researchers found that the student models consistently picked up that trait anyway. In one test, a model that “loves owls” was asked to generate a dataset composed only of number sequences like “285, 574, 384, …” But when another model was trained on those numbers, it mysteriously started preferring owls, too — despite there being no mention of owls in its own training.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
This could be said for nearly all professions on earth, just replace the "" with whatever and there's no need for the human element anywhere.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
This could be said for nearly all professions on earth, just replace the "" with whatever and there's no need for the human element anywhere.
It's probably coming for a lot of jobs. I'm lucky in my field the AI isn't quite good enough (yet) to replace humans for object detection and imagery analysis.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Im ok with it. Funny how hard the SAG fought it as the other 99% of folks that AI could replace dont have that clout. Maybe movie tickets wont be 20 bucks in the future. If the intent is to be entertained then so be it.

I've been preaching to my kids (my oldest as well as the kids I coach) that they need to embrace AI, learn it and understand how it can help what you ultimately want to do. It will replace my job within 10 years. I can gripe and fight it or i can learn how to use it.

I just dont want to be the fat people in wall-e that float around on chairs and not remember how to change a tire.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Im ok with it. Funny how hard the SAG fought it as the other 99% of folks that AI could replace dont have that clout. Maybe movie tickets wont be 20 bucks in the future. If the intent is to be entertained then so be it.

I've been preaching to my kids (my oldest as well as the kids I coach) that they need to embrace AI, learn it and understand how it can help what you ultimately want to do. It will replace my job within 10 years. I can gripe and fight it or i can learn how to use it.

I just dont want to be the fat people in wall-e that float around on chairs and not remember how to change a tire.

I was at the Freshman parent night for my daughter's high school a few weeks back and the English teacher was talking extensively about all the tools and techniques they use to catch students who are using AI. They're cheating! Of course I get it, but I wanted to ask where is the classroom where they are teaching the kids how to use AI? This is supposed to be the fanciest, best high school in the area, so surely they are preparing kids on this because I don't want my daughter heading off to college with no instruction or training on how to use the different AI products.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Makes one ponder... how is this really any different from a super-realistic animated character?
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Makes one ponder... how is this really any different from a super-realistic animated character?
I don't think it really is much different. The outrage is that it could threaten millionaires' paychecks.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
I'd love to see us make better movies and music. From what I hear the money has tightened up in Hollywood. If diverting money from actors to AI makes for a better product, I'm fine with that.
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
I'd love to see us make better movies and music. From what I hear the money has tightened up in Hollywood. If diverting money from actors to AI makes for a better product, I'm fine with that.

Its going to be very interesting to see how this plays out over the next couple of years. AI-generated music is reportedly making a big push on Spotify (this artist notes that an AI band that is generated based on his music has overtaken his band on Spotify in 2 months.) I'm a pretty big consumer of live theater and live music, so am interested in how this affects that area as well. On the one hand, you'd think maybe actors and musicians will want to lean into more live performances that can't be threated (not yet anyway) by AI. On the other, if they can't make a living recording music and film, are they able to survive on live performances alone?

An AI-generated band "Velvet Sundown" released two records and got 1m plays on Spotify before coming clean
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
I'd love to see us make better movies and music. From what I hear the money has tightened up in Hollywood. If diverting money from actors to AI makes for a better product, I'm fine with that.
"better" is already subjective. I guess I'd rather us keep some humanity and purpose vs. AI spitting out more cost effective products for us.

People already ***** and moan about the humans making crap just for $, how are AI music and movies going to not just be the same thing - just something it "thinks" we want and will keep us engaged?
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
I'd love to see us make better movies and music. From what I hear the money has tightened up in Hollywood. If diverting money from actors to AI makes for a better product, I'm fine with that.

Its going to be very interesting to see how this plays out over the next couple of years. AI-generated music is reportedly making a big push on Spotify (this artist notes that an AI band that is generated based on his music has overtaken his band on Spotify in 2 months.) I'm a pretty big consumer of live theater and live music, so am interested in how this affects that area as well. On the one hand, you'd think maybe actors and musicians will want to lean into more live performances that can't be threated (not yet anyway) by AI. On the other, if they can't make a living recording music and film, are they able to survive on live performances alone?

An AI-generated band "Velvet Sundown" released two records and got 1m plays on Spotify before coming clean
That is really interesting. I wonder how it plays out as well. Will the consumer reject the music if they know it comes from AI or will they not care because they enjoy it?
 
That's a real good "people are the oddest creatures" story. (y)
I thought it was crazy take to claim AI has an unfair advantage over human actors because they can compile thousands of other actor's emotions into a single entity. Then I started to think on it and maybe it makes sense. I'd have to think the cost savings of adding AI actors into a movie would be substantial. If the "acting" ever becomes just as good as a human, it makes a lot of sense to replace the human element.
Why do some of you dislike humans? ;)

First it was AI taking the boring jobs to "free" us to do things we want to do like create art and make movies. I guess we won't have that either. Sounds fun!
I'd love to see us make better movies and music. From what I hear the money has tightened up in Hollywood. If diverting money from actors to AI makes for a better product, I'm fine with that.
"better" is already subjective. I guess I'd rather us keep some humanity and purpose vs. AI spitting out more cost effective products for us.

People already ***** and moan about the humans making crap just for $, how are AI music and movies going to not just be the same thing - just something it "thinks" we want and will keep us engaged?
I don't disagree with you.

However, I think these AI algorithms already do a better job engaging people and can adjust to the market much quicker than humans can identify and adjust. If it can spit out content at a fraction of the rate a human can, it's going to be able to dial in. Or even create niche content for every interest.
 
However, I think these AI algorithms already do a better job engaging people and can adjust to the market much quicker than humans can identify and adjust. If it can spit out content at a fraction of the rate a human can, it's going to be able to dial in. Or even create niche content for every interest.
"better job engaging people"
"adjust to the market quicker"
"spit out content at a fraction of the rate a human can"

These sound like traits for making better commercials, not for creating art.
I don't see AI creating a song as good as "Like A Rolling Stone". Just catchy stuff.
 
However, I think these AI algorithms already do a better job engaging people and can adjust to the market much quicker than humans can identify and adjust. If it can spit out content at a fraction of the rate a human can, it's going to be able to dial in. Or even create niche content for every interest.
"better job engaging people"
"adjust to the market quicker"
"spit out content at a fraction of the rate a human can"

These sound like traits for making better commercials, not for creating art.
I don't see AI creating a song as good as "Like A Rolling Stone". Just catchy stuff.
Puts on old guy hat: ... Have you listened to the music of today? Humans aren't making much good stuff.
 
Puts on old guy hat: ... Have you listened to the music of today? Humans aren't making much good stuff.
As an old guy myself, I remember my dad saying this to me in the late 60's and early 70's, a time when a lot of great music was being written and recorded.
 
Makes one ponder... how is this really any different from a super-realistic animated character?
I don't think it really is much different. The outrage is that it could threaten millionaires' paychecks.
Vast majory of actors aren't millionares, and it threatens pretty much everyone's paychecks long term, rich poor, whatev. Super rich will keep on keeping on but everyone else could be in for the rudest of awakenings over the next few years. I have one foot in the entertaimment world and it's crazy what's going on behind the scenes right now, will probably be chaos for a few years while this plays out and I don't think anyone really knows the end game.
 
Makes one ponder... how is this really any different from a super-realistic animated character?
I don't think it really is much different. The outrage is that it could threaten millionaires' paychecks.
Vast majory of actors aren't millionares, and it threatens pretty much everyone's paychecks long term, rich poor, whatev. Super rich will keep on keeping on but everyone else could be in for the rudest of awakenings over the next few years. I have one foot in the entertaimment world and it's crazy what's going on behind the scenes right now, will probably be chaos for a few years while this plays out and I don't think anyone really knows the end game.
Behind the scenes with AI?
 
Behind the scenes with AI?
With what they are going to use AI for and who it will replace... there's a feirce internal struggle to protect jobs that will in all likelyhood fail, but ultimately will AI be used to replace all actors, writers, FX artists, grips, DPs, craft services etc.? If so, the industry's dead as we know it. And even then, will we need producers, directors, studio execs etc. when 10 years from now a 9 year old with some savvy and compute power can generate a feature length film and post it same day? Long term I think people are really struggling to grasp the end game, including me.
 
Behind the scenes with AI?
With what they are going to use AI for and who it will replace... there's a feirce internal struggle to protect jobs that will in all likelyhood fail, but ultimately will AI be used to replace all actors, writers, FX artists, grips, DPs, craft services etc.? If so, the industry's dead as we know it. And even then, will we need producers, directors, studio execs etc. when 10 years from now a 9 year old with some savvy and compute power can generate a feature length film and post it same day? Long term I think people are really struggling to grasp the end game, including me.
Appreciate the perspective. Up until I read that article a couple days ago I didn't think AI was a threat to the entertainment industry. I saw it replacing news anchors and weathermen in the near future, but did think movies were in the ballpark yet.
 
AI "photography". Some really strange, awesome, and disturbing stuff. A bit NSFW.


Crazy, but look how realistic it looks.
https://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-5064724.jpg
 

A research team recently proposed and tested a theory called “LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis,” which posited that the more junk data is fed into an AI model, the worse its outputs would become. Turns out that is a pretty solid theory, as a preprint paper published to arXiv by the team shows “brain rot” impacts LLMs and results in non-trivial cognitive declines.
researchers from Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, and Purdue University identified two types of “junk” data: short social media posts that have lots of engagement, including likes and reposts, and longer content with clickbait headlines, sensationalized presentation, and a superficial level of actual information. Basically, the same type of content that is also rotting out our own brains. With that in mind, the researchers scraped together a sample of one million posts on X and then trained four different LLMs on varying mixtures of control data and junk data to see how it would affect performance.

And wouldn’t you know it, it turns out that consuming directly from the internet landfill that is X isn’t great for thinking clearly. All four models tested—Llama3 8B, Qwen2.5 7B/0.5B, Qwen3 4B—showed some forms of cognitive decline. Meta’s Llama proved the most sensitive to the junk, seeing drops in its reasoning capabilities, understanding of context, and adherence to safety standards. Interestingly, a much smaller model, Qwen 3 4B, proved more resilient, though still suffered declines. It also found that the higher the rates of bad data, the more likely a model was to slip into “no thinking” mode, failing to provide any reasoning for its answer, which was more likely to be inaccurate.
 
Let's chat about Agentic Browsers. Has anyone installed Claude's or the new Altra from ChatGPT? I'm curious about the adoption of these and the usage by enough critical mass to show any real value. I've messed around with the Claude one, but I'm just not sure how often I'll use it. It's a nice ad hoc research assistant to call up while you are browsing...but the idea is that by prompting it should just take over and start doing stuff for you.
 
For the alarm bell side of the conversation, I have been suggesting this book to people and just noticed it's on spotify premium as a free listen for those who have that:

I'd assume there's about a 0% chance of us not trying our hardest to create ASI despite knowing the massive risks. Human nature and all that.
I agree, we are currently basing damn near our entire economy on it. There's money to be made, damn the consequences. We believe if we have it first the "good guys" will win, but the point of my recommendations is it doesn't matter who does it first - we can't predict or control the complications in "thinking" and motivations.

Even if it doesn't kill us, it's going to erode us at a much faster pace than we have seen with just internet and social media. Not to mention economic and environment consequences as these data centers pop up and suck all our power and water. That there are states where data centers account for 45% or so of the electricity usage is freakin' bananas. Not to mention all the job losses. But hey, at least we will have customized porn and AI movies!
 
Last edited:

Users who are viewing this thread

Back
Top