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Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.

Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.

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Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels?

The Weeping Angels apparently originated with Steven Moffat seeing a statue of a weeping angel in a structure in a cemetery and returning later to find out it was gone. At least according to this RadioTimes article. They first appeared in 2007 in the episode Blink....

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Good point. I don’t know how I didn’t think of that

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In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. The field has experienced several hype cycles, followed by disappointment and criticism, followed by funding cuts, followed by renewed interest years or even decades later.


There were two major winters approximately 1974–1980 and 1987–2000, and several smaller episodes, including the following:

  • 1966: failure of machine translation
  • 1969: criticism of perceptrons (early, single-layer artificial neural networks)
  • 1971–75: DARPA’s frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University
  • 1973: large decrease in AI research in the United Kingdom in response to the Lighthill report
  • 1973–74: DARPA’s cutbacks to academic AI research in general
  • 1987: collapse of the LISP machine market
  • 1988: cancellation of new spending on AI by the Strategic Computing Initiative
  • 1990s: many expert systems were abandoned
  • 1990s: end of the Fifth Generation computer project’s original goals
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I feel like it’s more inline with a staircase where progress is made followed plateaus.

If for example we can talk to voice assistants in a more human matter and ask follow up questions like “What was that last part you said?” I don’t think there would be much reason to regress

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“We want to ensure that people have maximum control to the extent that it doesn’t violate the law or other peoples’ rights,” Joanne Jang, a member of the product team at OpenAI, told NPR. “There are creative cases in which content involving sexuality or nudity is important to our users.”

The other problem in my mind is the fallibility of current safeguards. OpenAI and rivals have been refining their filtering and moderation tools for years. But users constantly discover workarounds that enable them to abuse the companies’ AI models, apps and platforms.

Some highlights from the article.


It seems like AI porn is inevitable and OpenAI has safeguards in mind for exploitative content so it doesn’t seem like a horrendous idea.

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To find very specific content?

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Am I the only one who finds this so weird when we talk about LLMs? If someone makes a bot that resembles some specific person, that person’s rights aren’t really violated, and since they’re all fictional content, it is very hard to break actual laws through its content. At that point we would have to also ban people’s weird fan fiction, no?

Not arguing about whatever they want or don’t want on their platform, but the legal & alleged moral questions / arguments always weird me out a bit, because there’s no one actually getting hurt in any sort of way by weirdos having weird chats with computers.

I could see some people making the argument that it could be considered defamatory especially in cases where it is being peddled as real. Politicians might even try to link it in with revenge porn or other non-consensual pornography laws.

It would sure get messy in a hurry though. Imagine someone trying to make lewd photos of Tomb Raider’s Laura Croft for example and accidentally generates images resembling Alicia Vikander or Angelina Jolie from the Tomb Raider movie.

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I recall some people using Akinator to find pornstars they might be interested so you might be onto something.

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I feel like it’s going to be a challenge to find a definition of malicious most people agree on.

Someone might think it’s fine to make nudes of Captain Marvel for example because she’s a character. They don’t really care about the Brie Larson aspect.

I suppose there is the option to eliminate any kind of name based suggestions.

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This almost seems like a monkeys paw question where I am going to immediately end up with Alzheimer’s if I choose the stock market option.

I’d probably cure Alzheimer’s because it seems like a horror beyond compression.

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Really neat. I’ll have to look up a video covering Deus Ex cut content later.

I’ve seen other articles about cut content regarding a space station that would have tied the series in with System Shock and a mission in the White House that was cut because it was too demanding.

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I feel like hair dye for dogs must be a thing. Though it sounds like they used human hair dye on them.

If it didn’t hurt them I’d think this is a little cute

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Yeah but I like to think I am a bit better about not ingesting hair care products through my eyes, nose, and mouth than a Schnauzer. Hopefully it was something non-toxic

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Yeah I feel like it’s similar to movies in a way. You can only push so much money and development into something before you start seeing diminishing returns.

Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape (www.gamespot.com)

I don’t think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I’m letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...

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It’s like nostalgia blinders.

An example a lot of people here can relate to is thinking about game consoles and handhelds they played growing up like the GBA.

There were likely some great games produced for it but there was also a lot of shovelware movie tie-ins and horrendous ports that were misrepresented in advertisements.

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I really hope Valve doesn’t start making small incremental changes to the Steam Deck like devices in the emulation handheld scene (Powkiddy, Anbernic, etc.) do.

I’d feel a lot less incentivised to buy one if I felt like my device was going to immediately age out. I imagine less developers would make system settings specifically for the Steam Deck like Cyberpunk 2077 did or design third party peripherals.

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Any reason they are releasing it now instead of when the game or the show released?

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That’s unfortunate. A nice gesture but it’s a bit late. Kind of like removing online DRM immediately before a game becomes abandonware.

Does anyone know if there is a way to list Retro Achievement availability in ES-DE for Android? (leminal.space)

In AmberELEC there was a way to display a trophy next to games that indicated if there were Retro Achievements available. I believe pressing start on the title would also allow you to view the achievements....

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