Initially I only saw the first one, but the entire thread is AMAZING. Personally I feel like we're just scratching the surface as to what is possible with diffusion models. Being able to gradually change images from one thing to another opens up so much possibility space, it's hard to even imagine.
We're hiring. It's miserable. My wife hangs out with fewer people under 30 than I do. I had her change "are you familiar with mac computers?" to "are you familiar with desktop computers?" because the difference between Mac and PC is a sidewalk crack compared to the canyon between a phone and something with a keyboard and mouse, and fewer and fewer people have any real experience with things with external monitors. I'm helping a kid up the street with his 3d printer and the fact that he couldn't just plug his Android tablet into it and get it to work fucking flummoxed the guy. We had a discussion about Microsoft Office and I had to say that in general, most people open Google Sheets, stare in horror and leave. There's no basic experience with any sort of productivity software of any kind. I made the point in another discussion that use of computers has most likely peaked - there was a generation that grew up with computers and computers grew up with them. Then there was a generation that grew up with smartphones and smartphones grew up with them. But both have matured to the point that anyone experiencing either for the first time does not understand how much the ease of use has improved and has absolutely no patience for the difficulties that are left. More and more, none of our patients have printers at home. It's becoming a legacy technology. Ten years from now, the majority of technological input will be conversational. Yeah you'll still type some things but if you can shout at Siri now and get close enough, 2032 AI will most likely get you loosey-goosey-close-enough to muddle through life. The world, as always, will belong to those who can execute precision when needed. That's one of the big reasons I'm fully behind UBI now - there are people who want a job from me who would be more effort to train than a FANUC robot would be to program. And the robot doesn't get wages, the robot doesn't get healthcare, the robot needs no retirement plan, and the robot comes with a depreciation schedule, and the robot is CapEx. "Siri, make me a movie about Master Chief fucking Princess Peach set in the Yu-Gi-Oh universe." Morlocks sharpen knives
The universal response to Microsoft Excel, as well. Everyone hates it, but everyone uses it. Sheets kind of sucks until you start digging around and then there's a lot surprising functionality built into it that Google goes out of their way to not tell you about. Watched the 1960 version of The Time Machine for the first time the other week. Great film!We had a discussion about Microsoft Office and I had to say that in general, most people open Google Sheets, stare in horror and leave. There's no basic experience with any sort of productivity software of any kind.
Yeah, I use google sheets for an absurd amount of things (probably too many) and the fact that it’s connected to the cloud and I can automate it with other web applications like forms, or run weekly reports is a game changer compared to excel. But I was puzzled last week when a member asked me how to connect their Linux laptop to the printer network. Probably would have figured it out, but I didn’t know Linux users left their house often enough to get laptops.
It's, ugh, really really good. Goddamnit, I can almost hear a Zimmer synth distortion of "P-Piggyy?", now voiced by Jordan Peterson. Also yeah we're coming for you next, Hans, with audio AI models. I guess if you have (especially some custom/unique) neural nets and clever/lucky/enough inputs... you're an artist, Harry. It's interesting tho that because of the bias towards needing large datasets/inputs for machine learning (/neural networks/"AI"), and also needing popularity, and thus probably commonly dealing w/ copyrights, so: "No.?" "I rest my case.""Have you inputted several tens of thousands of frames from the copyright-protected Blade Runner 2049 into a machine to compute a composite product, which you then used to promote a personal subscription service?"
You should check out the rest of the thread. I don't think copyright is going to be an issue. "Derivative works" are generally well-protected; there's been a long-standing "attempt to confuse" that lies at the heart of most copyright litigation and if your product does not attempt to cash in on the success of the product you're copying, you're generally good. "The Kermit Lebowski" is never gonna fly but "that frog looks reminiscent of Kermit" isn't worth the litigation. I actually ran into this while working on this: Nintendo has been legendarily chill about litigating "homages" to their stuff, having determined that anything that doesn't hurt the brand is good for the brand. This is, of course, why we can't have nice things: about a month before I started mixing that project, Nintendo sued a production company that had made like Mario Bros porn or some shit. So everyone was extremely skittish about me using legit Nintendo samples and shut me down. I rejoined that I wasn't using Nintendo samples, I was using a faithful chip module that emulated the circuitry necessary to make Nintendo sound effects: And that nothing I did was over seven notes, therefore they couldn't cry copyright on the samples, and they couldn't cry copyright on the publishing, and Smosh legal gave me the go-ahead.