Thursday, May 04
Daily News Stuff 4 May 2023
Always Two There Are Edition
Always Two There Are Edition
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- Amazon's Prime video streaming service managed to cut its server bill by 90%. (Prime Video Tech)
By moving away from AWS managed services.
Where the A in AWS is Amazon.
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- AMD has announced its Ryzen 7040U laptop processor range. (Tom's Hardware)
The leaks were 100% accurate, so all we learned today is that the base model Z1 used in the Asus ROG Ally is a 7540U.
- Framework announced it's new AMD laptop models. (WCCFTech)
I mean, the already did, but they couldn't talk about the specifics before because the CPUs hadn't been officially announced.
One drawback compared to the Intel models is that one of the four swappable ports doesn't support video - you can only have three external monitors.
On the Intel models you can have four external monitors but that shuts off the laptop's own screen.
Also, it doesn't have the four essential keys.
- Orange Pi, a company that makes a cheap board to compete with the Raspberry Pi, announced its own competitor to the Steam Deck and the Asus ROG Ally, powered by a Ryzen 7840U. (Notebook Check)
Can't get a decent sub-10" tablet, but there's a swarm of these things.
- AI can't replace human writers. (Tech Crunch)
I think you'll find that it can. The one thing ChatGPT and systems like it are good at is writing mediocre fiction. It doesn't necessarily know that it is doing that, of course, but neither do Hollywood writers.
Disclaimer: Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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It depends on what you mean by AI replacing human writers. Youtuber WDW Pro made the best comparison I've seen yet by comparing the introduction of AI to the introduction of the 4 function calculator. It will absolutely put a whole bunch of people dedicated to manual labor out of work, but it will make everybody else so efficient you'll generate more than enough jobs to replace them. He went on to prove you can 'replace' human writers by using ChatGPT to create a passable script for a Seinfeld episode from scratch in under an hour, but it took both ChatGPT and WDW Pro working together to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lo024BhzmU
The author Evan Currie also posted some streams in YouTube and Twitch of his efforts to try to write a book using ChatGPT with considerable less success, though what he did get was amazing.
The author Evan Currie also posted some streams in YouTube and Twitch of his efforts to try to write a book using ChatGPT with considerable less success, though what he did get was amazing.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Thursday, May 04 2023 10:19 PM (fxDKh)
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I think doing middling-bad raceswap rewrites of existing IP is what AI chatbots were born to do, and yes! they will put thousands of shitty disney scriptwriters out of work.
Speaking of terrible ideas, I want to reissue a bunch of classic, public-domain books, but with the titles rewritten as 21st century clickbait: "You Won't Believe What This Machine Can Do!" by H. G. Wells. "This City Doesn't Actually Exist!" by Thomas More. "Guy Discovers His Real Parents And What Happens Next Is Heartbreaking!" by Henry Fielding.
Speaking of terrible ideas, I want to reissue a bunch of classic, public-domain books, but with the titles rewritten as 21st century clickbait: "You Won't Believe What This Machine Can Do!" by H. G. Wells. "This City Doesn't Actually Exist!" by Thomas More. "Guy Discovers His Real Parents And What Happens Next Is Heartbreaking!" by Henry Fielding.
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 05 2023 12:59 AM (LADmw)
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Those sound like modern manga titles, just far shorter.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Friday, May 05 2023 03:50 AM (fxDKh)
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I'm pretty sure most of humanity died after the mechanization of agricutlrue put farmers out of work, and after the computer put secretarial pools out of work.
There must be only five humans left alive, and three of them will die because AI took their jobs.
There must be only five humans left alive, and three of them will die because AI took their jobs.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, May 05 2023 04:27 AM (r9O5h)
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I was (more or less) hoping to inspire some other titles, but okay, let us try some more:
"A Knight Cuts Off This Green Guy's Head, And You Won't Believe What Happens Next!" Anonyous circa 1350
"You Won't Believe What This Guy Dreamed About When He Was Dreaming About Dreaming . . ." by William Langland
"This Guy Gets Gored By a Pig, And What His GIrlFriend DOes Next Is Literally Unbelievable!" by Wm. Shakespeare
"This Epic Story Has So Many Knights You Won't Be Able To Believe What Happens!" by Edmund Spenser
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 05 2023 10:57 AM (obo9H)
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"These Pigs Turned Into Something Totally Unexpected!" by George Orwell
"Shakespeare Nerd Totally Humilates Himself (The Ending Is Epic!)" by Aldous Huxley
"Shakespeare Nerd Totally Humilates Himself (The Ending Is Epic!)" by Aldous Huxley
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 05 2023 11:12 AM (obo9H)
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"You Totally Won't Believe What This Message From Space Means!" by Stanislaw Lem
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 05 2023 11:45 AM (obo9H)
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"How Many Pictures of Buttholes Can I Draw?" by Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 05 2023 11:55 AM (obo9H)
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That last one is real.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 05 2023 05:58 PM (PiXy!)
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