#most advanced ai

[applepixls]

joel filling in a river and calling etho an ai

[llitchilitchi]

ngl while it's good that people are becoming more wary of new technologies and would rather take their time with integrating it into their daily lives I do fear that the climate of tumblr is turning many people into technophobes

[puniper]

i think one of my favourite bits of trivia about astro boy is that the three laws of robotics don't exist because Asimov's books were published around the same time Tezuka wrote Ambassador Atom, and he had so many people asking him if he had taken inspiration from his books that he had to make an afterword in one of the chapters clarifying he had no idea who that was or what the books were about which is why in astro boy, robots really have no issue harming and killing humans

anyways I bring this up because I just think it's funny that you could canonically ask Tenma what the three laws of robotics are and he'd probably say 'fuck if i know'

[someonesomewheredown]

As much as I love HLVRAI I will never be happy that they used AI voices in the gnome series

[demonstars]

he’s on the right path for the wrong reason?

more like the wrong path for the right logic

[syncrovoid-presents]

I have been researching Animatronics and it is oh so very very fascinating. The arduino boards vs something complex enough to use a raspberry pi, the types of servos, how you can build a servo without using an actual servo if the servo would be too big, etc etc etc.

The downside is now I look at fnaf animatronics and figure how they may mechanically work and you know what? The Daycare Attendant, if they were real, would be such a highly advanced machine. Not only is the programming and machine learning and large language models of all the animatronics of FNAF security breach super advanced, just the physical build is so technically advanced. Mostly because of how thin the Daycare Attendant is, but also with how fluid their movement is. One of the most top 10 advanced animatronics in the series. (I want to study them)

[st5lker]

dall e 3 is actually a little scary ill admit. not even as much for what it is as much as what it means for what will come next

[nereb-and-dungalef]

y'know the thing with students using ais to cheat is that. i mostly just hope this encourages teachers to assign work that requires original thinking instead of just asking students to regurgitate info (something ais are very good at). and like, if you're assigned an essay an ai could write, imo that's entirely the teacher's fault and it's fair to cheat. if they want you to regurgitate info, they should have a quiz instead.

[kaetor]

like Eight posts sitting in my drafts and going nowhere because I cannot bring myself to image description them

[bogunicorn]

If only... if only there was some alternate source of energy... an alternate source of energy that has a habit of overloading batteries and being difficult to store... that might take the burden of generative AI and machine learning and shit off of fossil fuels and water...

sounds fake though

I don't know, how about switching it off?

[sanjida1]

AI HIGH TICKET COMMISSIONS

[emotargaryen]

i find it kind of... dystopian how a common reply to pictures and videos now is "ai could never recreate this" like i know its meant in a light-hearted jokey way i dont know how to explain it its just like damn this is where we're at right now :/

[vanilla-voyeur]

Name and shame the publication. Don't get any news from The Portal.

I knew having Redditors cross-train on Tumblr would produce weird fucking magic.

[temperate-rainforest]

the paintings of bloody hands post is ai generated

Well, I for one think that funky little bot did a fantastic job, my gay little ass was all over it, that's what you're coming by to get my attention about right? /Gen

imma be real and if you're wanting ai discourse from me, all I'll say is listen to The Bottom 2 by Glorb, and calm down grandpa

Garry hit 'em with the-

[communistkenobi]

(taken from a post about AI)

speaking as someone who has had to grade virtually every kind of undergraduate assignment you can think of for the past six years (essays, labs, multiple choice tests, oral presentations, class participation, quizzes, field work assignments, etc), it is wild how out-of-touch-with-reality people’s perceptions of university grading schemes are. they are a mass standardised measurement used to prove the legitimacy of your degree, not how much you’ve learned. Those things aren’t completely unrelated to one another of course, but they are very different targets to meet. It is standard practice for professors to have a very clear idea of what the grade distribution for their classes are before each semester begins, and tenure-track assessments (at least some of the ones I’ve seen) are partially judged on a professors classes’ grade distributions - handing out too many A’s is considered a bad thing because it inflates student GPAs relative to other departments, faculties, and universities, and makes classes “too easy,” ie, reduces the legitimate of the degree they earn. I have been instructed many times by professors to grade easier or harder throughout the term to meet those target averages, because those targets are the expected distribution of grades in a standardised educational setting. It is standard practice for teaching assistants to report their grade averages to one another to make sure grade distributions are consistent. there’s a reason profs sometimes curve grades if the class tanks an assignment or test, and it’s generally not because they’re being nice!

this is why AI and chatgpt so quickly expanded into academia - it’s not because this new generation is the laziest, stupidest, most illiterate batch of teenagers the world has ever seen (what an original observation you’ve made there!), it’s because education has a mass standard data format that is very easily replicable by programs trained on, yanno, large volumes of data. And sure the essays generated by chatgpt are vacuous, uncompelling, and full of factual errors, but again, speaking as someone who has graded thousands of essays written by undergrads, that’s not exactly a new phenomenon lol

I think if you want to be productively angry at ChatGPT/AI usage in academia (I saw a recent post complaining that people were using it to write emails of all things, as if emails are some sacred form of communication), your anger needs to be directed at how easily automated many undergraduate assignments are. Or maybe your professors calculating in advance that the class average will be 72% is the single best way to run a university! Who knows. But part of the emotional stakes in this that I think are hard for people to admit to, much less let go of, is that AI reveals how rote, meaningless, and silly a lot of university education is - you are not a special little genius who is better than everyone else for having a Bachelor’s degree, you have succeeded in moving through standardised post-secondary education. This is part of the reason why disabled people are systematically barred from education, because disability accommodations require a break from this standardised format, and that means disabled people are framed as lazy cheaters who “get more time and help than everyone else.” If an AI can spit out a C+ undergraduate essay, that of course threatens your sense of superiority, and we can’t have that, can we?