With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
A.I. is likely going to change the world as much as the printing press (at the very least, and possibly as much as the industrial revolution). I wouldn’t call it a nothing fad. It is definitely shaking up my career (video production) already. And at least from my point of view, becoming a creative generalist is the best way to adapt. Work is going to become more about knowing a little to moderate amount about a whole lot of things, so that you can effectively orchestrate a hierarchy of AI agents. Deep specialization increasingly carries too much risk, and the A.I. are much better at some aspects of it than we typically are.
It turns out gen AI is good at training virtual robots, which can then be embodied in robots like this guy. There’s a $16,000 Chinese version of that robot that’s a bit smaller. There’s a robot dog that GPT4 trained to balance on a beach ball, and the NVIDIA pen twirling training. I guess what I’m saying is… robots exist.
To be clear, if they can make living dinosaurs, they totally should. Like, don’t make an amusement park out of it, but if we can bring dinosaurs back and choose not to, that’s gotta be some kinda unethical.
The Adobe ecosystem is finally starting to bother me enough to bounce. But I’ve worked with these programs for 30 years, so moving to Davinci and Krita is going to be a thing. And afaik, there’s no real replacement for After Effects.
Interesting! Never heard of Affinity, so that’s an alternative to InDesign/Illustrator it looks like? I ditched Windows for Linux (Mint at the moment) this year, but I honestly haven’t even sat at that computer in six months, so…
Honestly, I’m having a ton of fun with generative A.I. as a marketing producer. It’s allowing me to play in new ways and realize ideas that I would have never had the time or resources to execute otherwise. It’s given me the confidence to explore entirely new mediums and workflows that have bled over into my personal art.
To tie that back to MS, the code base for Windows is crufty af. I expect efficiencies to continue to come from the research and open source domains, but it’s fair to point out that corpo only implement efficiencies that cost money if they can’t offset that cost onto externalities like cheap labor and foreign resource degradation.
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Trump says he's "looking at" allowing bans on birth control, backtracks after criticism (www.salon.com)
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Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problem (www.theregister.com)
Madlad took a chance (lemmy.world)
I was reminded of this after my phone autocorrected "honestly" into Throckmorton. (lemmy.world)
And before anyone complains about the ifunny watermark this picture was taken from Google.
Me🧰irl (lemmy.world)
Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (www.businessinsider.com)
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)
I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....
Map of Drug Cartels in Mexico 2024 (lemmy.world)
Billionaires. (lemm.ee)
Sean 'Diddy' Combs can't be prosecuted over 2016 video, LA DA says. (www.usatoday.com)
Nope. No. (lemmy.world)
Describe an episode in the worst possible way
I’ll start: a naked guy complaining to his host that there’s less light than advertised.
Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition (www.cnn.com)
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE (lemmy.world)
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15741608...
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