qA fA qing plaH! Today is a good day to die!
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I do not sense this. Your experience is your own. Just keep in mind you're looking at a sliver of the whole thing at the best of times. You're too tiny a dataset, especially considering you just made the sensible swap.
It would also make more sense to divide the day into something decimal but some base twelvers showed up first. It would also make more sense to stop using measurement systems where 12 hooplas equal 1 boink. The alphabet is just another thing like that. It's been stolen and rewritten and now we are stuck with it. You can write an alternative sound map to help new learners. But the 26 letter order is here to stay.
I get that. It's just the constellation of stuff here. Polish youths in considerate numbers falling in love with Russian culture is a bit like saying 9/11 firefighters are turning to Islam for guidance. Not that both scenarios would be inherently bad, they're just not very likely. That's why I asked for more than hearsay.
Can you back this up with anything but personal observation? There is nary a country in Europe that is under threat of a Russian invasion as much as Poland, now that they're already in Ukraine. Right wingers all over Europe are very pro-Russian - except in Poland. History looms large in a country whose neighbors split it 3 times. It's obviously possible that Polish younglings, unburdened with things like history, like the culture. You are well within you rights to separate the culture from its people's history or what the current government is like. But I have a hard time imagining this as more as a passing fluke at best, or propaganda at worst.
I take solace in the fact that a lot of the output of so-called AI needs to be checked and doublechecked, rendering any time and overhead savings nonexistent. This may change but I'm clinging on.
It's too early to tell where on the "modern technology replaces humans spectrum" the advent of so-called AI falls. Are we talking about enraged workers seeing their livelihoods in danger by industrialization throwing their wooden shoes, sabot, into the machines? Hence, or so the legend goes, the word sabotage. Or are we talking about accountants and bookkeepers, whose need to exist was questioned when Excel became a thing and automated something like 60 percent of their work. They actually grew in number because they could do more sensible things now. We can at least hope it's the second scenario.
As far as the masses enjoying so-called-AI-generated music is concerned, I think of how the availability of photography changed paintings. When you couldn't just snap a picture of something, a photorealistic facsimile in oil on canvas was fantastic. It took weeks but you didn't know better. When photography became widespread, artists went banana. Picasso actually knew how to draw things correctly but you wouldn't think that seeing his later body of work. Impressionism is delivering lovely scenery without sticking to the realism of the Dutch masters. Art isn't in a vacuum, it develops around life, life includes technology - it's an unavoidability that technology influences art.
Any photograph would be amazing to the people in 1830. Wow! It's my neighbor Bob sitting on a chair. Wow! It's a picture of a thumb. I have two of those but I've never seen them like that. Wow! It's a picture of New York. I'll never be able to go there because it takes 6 weeks and costs more than my net worth. Jump to today and we've become much more discerning about what a good photograph is. I live in hope that we develop a so-called-AI discerning taste as well. Especially in music. We've done okay with photoshopped images too.
I know. I'm a creature of habit.
"Greedy CEO" seems tautologic to me;)
I hear you. I just would like to point out von Ahn wasn't talking about today. He's looking at a future where some of these tools actually deliver on their promises. I understand why you're skeptical and frankly so am I. But there is a chance he might prove us wrong in our lifetimes.
He's probably right that a so-called-AI software can assist a teacher in making sure all students get to be on the same page. With the unreliability of models today though I would be more concerned with the crap hallucinating wrong math formulae or the Italian-Zimbabwean War of 1647. This needs tight supervision by professionals. But in his defense, he was just shooting the breeze and didn't give a time frame. In a decade this scenario might look less wacko. But we also thought we'd be fizzing around in flying cars already.
What else is he gonna say though? They pivoted hard into it, of course he's gonna sing the praises. In other news, water is wet.
In my experience, the courses on DL are getting worse. Erratic changes, mistakes, etc. I'm just not ready to kiss my 1000 day streak goodbye yet!
When you're using lemmy or mastodon, you don't have to use the website. You can use an app that goes from your fingers to the server without needing a browser and a website to exchange the information.
So most if not all the instances of the fediverse are also a website if you need to use it. But not every website is an instance of the fediverse.
But you had Facebook. That's as good as having it. They know you. Their grubby tentacles will never let go!
It's where all good engagements start!
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No, I mean engagements to marry.
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Is it just me? It's just me, is it. Oh, okay.