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Mist

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Edaw said:
It's the same paper referenced in the article I linked.

IIRC something like 1 in 7 research studies are fake and it's probably a whole lot more.

Do you know what a think tank is? Most people think it's just a bunch of guys war-gaming shit but it's not. Think tanks are where spooks end up when they 'retire'. They take your tax money and funnel it into research that creates 'facts' to support their policy agenda. Look at any spending bill and you see it riddled with grants for all kinds of gay shit.
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"I don't want to believe these numbers even though they've been confirmed by multiple sources and also relatively easy math, because of feels."

Anyway, you're still not getting an entire video game for 3 cents worth of compute. And if you could, you're welcome to try. I've built some pretty neat stuff very quickly just with the free version of Claude.
 
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Edaw

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Mist said:
confirmed by multiple sources
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References are not confirmation. Where is the peer review?

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Kiroy

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Edaw said:
References are not confirmation. Where is the peer review?

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why would you not believe illustrious citations such as facebook, google and the UN??? Its a premiere journal bro. I know someone who knows someone that confirmed it. The numbers are ez. You've just been conditioned not to trust the UN.
 
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Daidraco said:
So wouldnt the bar graph of processing power used start trending.... down?
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I don't doubt that the initial, top-end models are hideously expensive to train. I wonder if that cost is getting rolled into the cost-per-prompt research. But also, there are models you can run locally. I won't even attempt to guess how much more intensive the top-end models are to run, but some of the local models are fairly capable, depending on what you're trying to do, and you should be able to tell almost exactly how much these cost to run.

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They should concentrate on natural stupidity rather than artificial intelligence.
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Well, we've actually made some progress at tackling the latter...
 
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Tmac

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Kiroy said:
why would you not believe illustrious citations such as facebook, google and the UN??? Its a premiere journal bro. I know someone who knows someone that confirmed it. The numbers are ez. You've just been conditioned not to trust the UN.
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IDK, we’ve been told AI is expensive af to support, but I’ve never known why. The illustration and OpenAI’s P&L def confirms that.

Seems easy to believe.
 
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It's not crazy to think the latest hot "start up" isn't actually making a product that's profitable. Remember juicero?
 
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Juicero was basically just squeezing pre-packaged packets of stuff to extrude juice - thing was a scam.

The guy behind it then tried to push the "raw water" movement, so I assume he got dysentery or parasites soon after
 
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hey remember toothpaste rollers?
but seriously, was it refrigerated or something? like I could see that. a coffee maker. you could put the water/coffee in at night, set a timer and have coffee ready to go what you wake up. or even those stupid kuerigs. fast boil water, with prepackaged.

electric juicer, I could see a similar idea. prepacked, instant and ready to go. but you want it cold, not hot.
 
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Mist said:
You could just squeeze the packets by hand and the effect was the same.

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They look like IV bags. After being in hospitals more than the next 5 people combined...Nope fuck that. No thank you. I'll stick to drinking water tyvm.
 
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I watch the vault alot, so this pooped up on my recommended. The contents and comments are kinda funny:
 
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In October of 2011 I built a whole new PC for one game: Skyrim. My old PC wasn't going to cut it. Current games aren't really doing anything for me lately so I thought about reinstalling Skyrim, actually I'm doing it now. Probably mod it a bit. I've forgotten most of the game except the beginning. Here is the crazy thing: The original version of Skyrim needs 13GB of space to install, that's today's small patch size. The special edition takes a little over 14gb.
What's really sad is this is the last good Elder scrolls game. I really used to love them. I do not have high hopes for the next one but I'll give it a chance.

Also since this is general games, I retired my MS Elite 2, I found a controller with pretty much the same layout , hall effect sticks, fully programmable back buttons, gyroscopes, RGB if that's your thing (I turned it off) that does USB wireless/Bluetooth/Switch and was $60.

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Cannot recommend this controller more.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Gavinmad said:
The last good Elder scrolls game was Morrowind.
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I recall saving the game multiple times to show my brother the weather/water effects in Morrowind. I agree it was a good game. I've tried playing it again multiple times but well I guess I'm too old but all that reading always bummed me out.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
I recall saving the game multiple times to show my brother the weather/water effects in Morrowind. I agree it was a good game. I've tried playing it again multiple times but well I guess I'm too old but all that reading always bummed me out.
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I think there are a couple of really good Morrowind "remaster" mods out there, and I swear I heard about something using AI to add voice. Might be worth a search.
 
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