Eggyhead

Worked with some teachers in a school. Occasionally we’d forget something dumb at our desk like our attendance notebook or a stack of handouts for the students. In most cases there was usually someone from our group sitting around at our office space, doing a bit of prep work. We all used iPads in our lessons, so one day I used a combination of Siri Shortcuts with IFTTT, a smart plug and a cheap little lamp to create a quick little alert system that would inform a peer at the desk if something was left behind. The light would click on, and when someone noticed, they’d check the group chat to see who sent it and what was needed.

I’m thankful I have the option to change it.

I’d like to see a data collection comparison between the two as well.

Whoosh

My wife, a graphic designer, just showed me a new feature added to Photoshop that basically allows AI to take a close up portrait and turn it into a full sized photo by generating ideal content around the subject using a few simple prompts. It’s really impressive. All she has to do is touch it up to make sure it’s believable and appealing. I don’t really care, since most advertisement photography is fake anyway, but I worry how propagandists are going to exploit the hell out of AI.

Do modern TVs even come in non-smart variants anymore?

It seems they are unable to exist in any other form than dark fantasy as well.

It’s a fair question, but it makes me want to ask why downvotes even matter to anyone. They are usually outnumbered by upvotes in the first place, & aren’t even federated across instances (at least on Kbin).

I imagine there’s also an aspect of instilling a culture of shame around something that constitutes as a basic human need. That way people will invariably have at least one basic “temptation” to crawl into church to plead forgiveness over before seeking deeper religious indoctrination.

I can’t help but wonder how much facebook’s stigma might be stifling enthusiasm toward the Quest.

I watched a bit of the presentation. The Quest 3 was like 5m at the beginning then the rest played out like an AI infused dystopian nightmare. Facebook is building AI “personalities” with real faces and predetermined personalities for people to go to for advice. They’re giving people tools to train their own AI characters for whatever purpose they want. Furthermore, they’re encouraging businesses to use custom versions of these AI characters for use as a customer service front-end on the internet.

After that, they showed off ray-ban glasses with cameras hidden in the frames and AI built into them.

It’s never about creating a better society, just oppression and exploitation. The more criminals you easily fabricate, the more indentured servants you easily get.