I await the game.
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I am certain that I could break any art AI within 5 seconds.
“Hmmm… this arm -points at screen- is too high, make it stand lower”
Boom, headshot.
They don’t know that they drew an arm. They don’t know what an arm is. They do know that the reward input comes from placing certain pixels in a certain arrangement relative to certain other pixels (but oh, they don’t know what a pixel is, neither).
AI will take a long number (input as words) and crunch it into another large number (which looks like an image to us) and prioritize the number crunching which turns a billion inputs into a percent (60%, 70%) of “succes” outputs. They will also cheat by knowing which range of outputs is in the general area (a statistical plane of values) of succes, based on comparing to the inputs they’ve been trained with. It is easier to numbercrunch a picture of a cat when you’ve been told “this number is a picture of a cat”.
Let’s say I want an AI to draw me a Moti, the aliens from “A mote in God’s eye”. Success will be easier if the AI has been fed art depicting Motles rather than try and figure what the f*** is the right answer (the right number) to a verbal description of a Moti.
“Huh so they have two legs. And the body is covered in smooth fur. They have a large head with no neck and the head is tilted to the left. They have a massive left arm linked to the top of the head and a goblin like ear on the right side of the head. They have two thin right arms with cup-like shoulders, of different lengths of arm and located one above and ahead of the other so that their movements don’t interfere. The left arm has a strong hand with four fingers and opposing thumb, the right arms have five fingers and opposing thumbs. The thumbs are located on the outward side of the hand, not inward like on human (their thumb is by what would be our pinkie). Ah, also their toes are covered in a kind of hoof”
(And I didn’t even start with the face of a Moti…)
AI imitate art, poorly, and based on neverending inputs of what should the result look like. They don’t create.
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but as long as she never hurts anyone, I’d rather be with her than with all of you…
I’m not the one who turns my head when our eyes accidentally meet…
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Yes, its yet not understanding such abstracts that humans know, but its simple first A.I. that are capable of a lot, still. Lets give creators, and A.I. some more time and see what its truly capable of, if they will want to pursue such endevours of course. Because I have problems believing they will want to do it because of ethical reasons.
Anyway, it certainly can generate content somewhat aligned with the prompt. When I asked to do art without and then with attribute “symmetrical”. It generated more symmetrical things with “symmetrical”.
That means its important what you teach it, but even more important is what you ask it, and how the question is posed. Its at that point communication barrier on top of other imperfections.
At this level, when I wrote “human arm” in text prompt, it diplayed human arms. When I wrote hand, it displayed hand. Some had 5 fingers, some not, but I didnt wrote it have to be with 5 fingers. When I wrote 5 fingers, still some did not had 5 fingers, and that means its a ROGUE A.I. and needs to be annihilated before it annihilates us to rule all the galaxy by itself!!! 
Or just keep it generating images only, not bothering whats right and whats wrong too much…
Especially when creators are themselves imperfect, we cant await from the creation to be a lot more wise in beginning, when it could be most dangerous. Prodigy A.I. could suffer from the same problem as us.
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Time to go to sleep, since that’s something our brains do in different ways for reasons not well known. Nighties lovelies!
Also: Barbie the movie, because reasons
It gives me a vibe of the Bild Lilli doll with that hairdo and the striped swimsuit…
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did you have to come right now?
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Don’t need any more Sci-Fi games, but now I want a few more. 
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: guess it’s mission complete for Mars InSight…
Last communication was on december 15th. On december 18th the Mars InSight probe failed to communicate, probably because dust and the Martian winter’s lesser sunlight have reduced the output of its solar panels below the bare minimum to keep the batteries charged.
Despite the eventual failure of the H3 probe to bury itself underground, Mars Insight has given 4 years of data, with over 1,300 earthquakes (marsquakes?) recorded which will provide lots of information on Mars’ crust and internal structure.
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: pick a random airport (say, SFO) with two parallel airstrips, place your camera in a vantage point with a large zoom and let the fun begin…
At 05:21 the effect is awesome since two airplanes align with the camera and although the nearest one is smaller than the other, they look roughly the same size as they approach and touch the strip in unison.
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: let’s say we had a total blackout…
…things stop being fun quite fast. Three to four days without electricity and sh¡t hits the fan and then keeps getting worse… 
How much food do you have at home? Which can be eaten without cooking? Which would spoil faster/sooner? Do you live more than three to four stories above the street?
(My grandpas used to live in an old building from 1903 which had no elevator and no room for one. They paid the lowest rent by living on the fourth floor (fifth counting the ground floor) and those four flights of stairs were a challenge even for child me, but most of the time I could climb them all without stopping to rest, then would pant for a while after greeting granma at the door and wait for my parents).
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If your inner (real) spaceflight nerd needs satisfying, here’s a very good talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer and the eventful landing of Mission 11. Not for those without any interest in the inner workings of hardware and software 
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I have cans with food, around 50.
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Happy Holidays! 
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Merry Christmas, LAGL!
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: last video was about blackouts. Now let’s talk about bringing the power grid back one piece at a time, literally
When it comes to starting back a power grid, slow and safe is the way to go… your AC/heating can and will wait until your section of the grid can be added to the main without breaking literally everything.
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The woman in the photo, Margaret H. Hamilton, Director of Apollo Flight Computer Programming, MIT Draper Laboratory. She is still with us.
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https://store.epicgames.com/pl/p/death-stranding
DEATH STRANDING, free game this day, and tomorrow morning, you can add to library and it stays there free to play forever
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Time to go to sleep, I just noticed that with all the Christmas stuff, I forgot to ready my 7-day pillbox for the week… Can wait to tomorrow. Nighties lovelies!
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