And kids. You gotta punch down to punch kids. I know from experience.

At this point, less Internet is good for everyone.

How does it feel to be so wrong?

Nah, just piss it away.

Doctor Who. It’s a television show, you dorks. Stop making television shows part of your personality.

Have you tried not being white, vanilla face?

I’m going to be honest and try not to be rude. This is only my observation from my perspective and may be wildly wrong. I looked through your comment history. You seem to be polite and communicative. That’s not a bad thing. However, your comments don’t seem very funny or interesting to me. I communicate through humor. I understand that it is subjective, but I’m not often in chats or conversations that awkwardly die out.

Show some more of your personality in what you say. Compliment others. Leave them with questions. Do you think maybe the answer to your question isn’t what you are saying, it’s how you are saying it?

The pace of AI progress is dynamic and depends on how you define “progress.” Here are a few factors to consider:

Areas of Rapid Progress:

1. Generative AI: Models like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others have advanced significantly, with improvements in realism, efficiency, and usability.
2. Application-Specific AI: AI applications in healthcare, finance, and creative industries are becoming more refined and widely adopted.
3. Hardware Advances: New chips like NVIDIA’s GPUs and specialized AI processors are speeding up AI computations, enabling larger and more complex models.

Signs of Slowing Down:

1. Diminishing Returns on Scaling: Larger models often bring smaller performance improvements relative to their size and cost.
2. Compute and Cost Barriers: Training state-of-the-art models requires immense computational resources, which can limit innovation to a few big players.
3. Regulation and Ethical Concerns: Increased scrutiny and regulation could slow the release and development of new AI systems.
4. Bottlenecks in Data: High-quality data for training is becoming harder to obtain, and there are growing concerns about data privacy and ethics.

Perspective:

While some aspects might appear to be slowing down, others are evolving rapidly. Shifts in focus from building “bigger” models to creating “smarter” and more efficient ones may redefine progress in a more sustainable way.

What’s your take? Are you seeing specific areas where you feel progress is slowing?

Somebody once told me…

The Luck of the Fryrish - Futurama

Fry spent his life thinking his brother was a dick who was stealing his personality, when all he really wanted was to be around him. And by the time he realized it, it was too late. Having a similar relationship with my brother, this hit close to home. I keep telling myself if I ever got a tattoo, it would be a 7 leaf clover.

Macaroni art

While I don’t disagree that estimates could be made, OP’s image looks like that of a white shrimp, which is a life form on Earth. What about the image is “alien”? This thing evolved to live on Earth. It looks like something that evolved to live on Earth in a dark area.

There’s a short series from the mid-2000s that I remember watching about an imaginative expedition to a close planet and the life on it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453446/

Even magic won’t make me more money. =C

“If your bra is too tight, it’s uncomfortable. If you’re a boy and your bra is too tight, I’m uncomfortable.” — Lori Beth Denberg, All That

Is someone shutting down all the Russian bot servers or something?

I think the opposite. That thing screams “Terran”. It looks like something from science fiction, which is created based on things from Earth. We have NO idea what aliens would actually look like.

My man knows his pasta.

Count me in.

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

K? K what? The letter before L? The letter after J? Did you know that in JK the K stands for “kidding?” So your reply is “kidding?” or K as in Potassium? Do you need some Special K for breakfast? K as in I can K/O you? Can I knock you out and feed you to hungry sharks? Sharks have a K in it. “K”? Are you fucking kidding me? I spent a decent portion of my life writing all of that and your response to me is “K”? Are you so mentally handicapped that the only letter you can comprehend is “K” - or are you just some fucking asshole who thinks that with such a short response, he can make a statement about how meaningless what was written was? Well, I’ll have you know that what I wrote was NOT meaningless, in fact, I even had my written work proof-read by several professors of literature. Don’t believe me? I doubt you would, and your response to this will probably be “K” once again. Do I give a fuck? No, does it look like I give even the slightest fuck about a single letter? I bet you took the time to type that one letter too, I bet you sat there and chuckled to yourself for 20 hearty seconds before pressing “send”. You’re so fucking pathetic. I’m honestly considering directing you to a psychiatrist, but I’m simply far too nice to do something like that. You, however, will go out of your way to make a fool out of someone by responding to a well-thought-out, intelligent, or humorous statement that probably took longer to write than you can last in bed with a chimpanzee. What do I have to say to you? Absolutely nothing. I couldn’t be bothered to respond to such a worthless attempt at a response. Do you want “K” on your gravestone? Do you want people to remember you as the asshat who one day decided to respond to someone with a single letter? “Hey, look, everybody! It’s that “K” guy!” That’s who you are. You’re going to be known as the “K” guy. How does it feel? Do you feel happy? Quite honestly, I don’t care, which is why I’m not even going to respond to you. Goodbye, and good luck with your future as that guy who said “K”

That’s a nice pasta.