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And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Why artificial intelligence needs to understand consequences (www.nature.com)

This is the potential development in AI I'm most interested in. So naturally, I tested this when I first used ChatGPT. In classic ChatGPT fashion, when asked to make a directed acyclic graph representing cause and effect, it could interpret that well enough to make a simple graph...but got the cause and effect flow for something...

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That's definitely a better graph visually. (The image capability is cool, the graph I got on the earlier model was in text form). But I think it is wrong - "prepare (tinder, kindling, and fuel wood)" are all redundant to each other. Plus there's a direct link from "prepare tinder wood" to "maintain fire" - if this is a causal diagram indicating the sequence of actions a person needs to take, "prepare wood " should link to "light fire". I don't have a record of the exact prompts I was using, but I was working more with the fact that oxygen. fuel, and heat are all necessary but independent preconditions for a fire to start.

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Gorogoa had a beautiful and unique look. Looks like a detailed illustrated book in a multicultural fantasy setting.

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I enjoy brewing loose leaf tea gongfu style (in a small vessel with many infusions): it gives me just enough to do, and a pleasant stimulus to focus on, that it's very grounding.

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It's just one method to make tea. Some teas taste quite different from cup to cup (wuyi oolongs, for example), some are more consistent, in my experience. What I like is that it's easy to adjust depending on the outcome - one infusion is too weak or too strong? Brew the next one more or less.

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That's a pretty good summary.

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Although AI will impart a pretty new flavor to it, I think whether or not AI gets used a tool to create more genuine value, vs being used to produce bullshit at greater scale and efficiency, comes down to human organizational factors that don’t have much to do with AI. Take the example of the recommendation letter: if the person writing the letter and the organization receiving it cares that content of the letter reflects real experiences, then I think AI writing assistance will be used to that end. If it’s just a rote requirement that needs to be ticked off, then lazy AI written letters will prove quite effective. Whether people care or not I think has to with the interaction of their own personal values with the structural incentives the organization. New developments in AI may highlight how those incentives are aligned or misaligned, but potential solutions have to do with a facet of human behavior that’s much more ancient.

Thoughts on apathy and the Reddit protest (i.imgur.com)

Honestly, it's mind-boggling how the top 1% have us believing their relentless greed is just the norm and that we're helpless to do anything about it. This is particularly noticeable on platforms like Reddit, where we, the users, are the real value creators and even volunteer our time....

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Doesn’t have to be “the majority”, literally - a long as the minority is sizable enough, it can have a good influence on the rest.

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Click the plus icon to the left of your username at the top right corner of the screen . Last option on the drop-down menu is “create new magazine”.

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Aww. How did she get that name?

What are your favorite smaller tech-related groups on kbin/lemmy?

Like most who’ve joined kbin or lemmy, I’m actively looking for more communities to subscribe to. We don’t have a way to do a centralized search for these across instances yet, so I’m sure there’s some I’ve overlooked. What smaller technology related groups have you discovered that could use more publicity?...

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I’ve seen the fedi search link before, it’s a great idea. That said, it’s currently no good for finding things on kbin - for example, try searching AskKbin, which has been quite active - you get almost nothing back. Hopefully it will be better in a few days.

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This sent me down a rabbit hole of trying a lot more gibberish/unconventional prompts on Midjourney. There’s something fascinating about seeing such a complex response that’s clearly an unintended side-effect of the training process, even though the results have a pretty conventional “Midjourney look”.
Putting in your username is also an amusing exercise. This is what I get for babelspace The ‘space’ influence is pretty obvious, I think it’s associating babel > babble and babies, which I assume is where the color scheme and youthfulness comes from.
If anyone without a Midjourney subscription wants to see what their username looks like, I would be happy to run it for you.

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Neat. I've never used terms that were as close to gibberish, but I've used made-up extensions of real root words - for ex. "panthalassan" - in image prompts with stable diffusion and midjourney, with decent results. I doubt that it is any more effective than using real words, but it is fun to do.

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I really like what you’ve been posting so far. I’ve been working more with image generating AI -but I would have been interested in following information regarding more general/text focused AI on Reddit, except all the communities I checked were pretty bad 😂.

Some places I think you can promote it -
artificial@kbin.social
Any big technology community, there’s multiple on different instances
If we can find an article related to image AI, I can post it to the stable diffusion groups. I’ve been posting at stablediffusion@kbin.social.

OC I created a site that helps people search the fediverse (programmer2514.github.io)

I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile)....

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Awesome. Though I notice very little shows up from kbin.social; content I know is there is missing when I search for it. That may have more to do with the recency of the site growth or the cloudflare protection that was up a few days ago.

OC QR Code Scene for kbin.social

I made a large scale working QR Code scene that points to kbin.social. I used the new QR Code Control for SD 1.5 (released here, and multiple rounds of upscale in img2img using it, controlnet tile, and the t2ia color control, starting from a QR code I made with this QR code generator.

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Good on you! Hope that a lot more people on kbin take this approach.

Could we consider allowing posts of lists of communities as well as questions?

Right now, the search capabilities we have for findings magazines aren’t great, and aren’t usually going to show communities on similar topics across instances. If people make lists of related communities and posted them here, I think it would help people find communities they are searching for.

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For example, here is one I just made that gathers general music communities across instances: music groups

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Assuming you don’t want to go to effort of training for a single image, I’d try inputting the image of a face in img2img mode with some Controlnet options to selectively retain elements of the image.

A community for sane and hype-free discussion of Artificial Intelligence: Actually Useful AI

There’s a lot of AI/crypto bro type sigma grindset blogspam on the internet about artificial intelligence. It’s really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and find actually useful or interesting content....

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I like the idea of this community, and subscribed, but fyi that link doesn't work for me on kbin. This is the right link on here, I believe: https://kbin.social/m/auai@programming.dev - m rather than c.

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With that username, are you by any chance affiliated with Progresque Magazine?

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