TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[benji]

He can only say that because there's no surviving footage of Nokia's N-Gage E3 2003 presentation.

Since I spent many many minutes looking on YouTube for anything showing the slam poetry break dancing and this is the only real thing I could find from 21 years ago I'm posting this:

[Potato]

The Canva CIO is definitely one of those weird musical theatre kids who is just cheerful and irritating in equal measure.

[doby8]

He can only say that because there's no surviving footage of Nokia's N-Gage E3 2003 presentation.

Since I spent many many minutes looking on YouTube for anything showing the slam poetry break dancing and this is the only real thing I could find from 21 years ago I'm posting this:

I don't know why, but I really like how it looks.

[wsippel]

What the fuck, man...





What's really wild is that those music models are apparently tiny compared to LLMs or image generators (the music models are all closed source, so we don't know for sure). Probably because music is extremely codified, anyway. But yeah, in the future, if you hear a background track in a movie or TV show? Probably made by AI. No license fees or residuals. It's absolutely good enough for that already.

[Nintex]

Music is probably easy to do for AI because it loops and repeats a lot plus there is always a 'rhythm' to it. 
It is almost a formula, which makes it easy for AI to generate.

[benji]

Serious Star Trek shit!

[benji]

[Nintex]

Goodbye ZCHINA

[benji]

[Potato]

I love when Apple announces new features that Android phones have had for years and Apple morons think it's groundbreaking.

[Potato]

Is the Apple Vision Pro the fastest forgotten Apple product ever?

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

"Open" AI 

[Eric Cartman]

I love when Apple announces new features that Android phones have had for years and Apple morons think it's groundbreaking.

"Siri, is there any new hardware I can buy that does some basic shit but has a 70%+ cost markup?"

[Nintex]

All internet content is freeware fellas 

[Potato]

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240629/p2g/00m/0bu/018000c

Sony cutting Blu-ray production.

[Nintex]

15000 jobs axed at Intel

[benji]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The future is here

https://youtu.be/WGwVnVr9y2Y?t=32

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/14/ftc-bans-fake-reviews-social-media-influence-markers.html

Rest in peace X and trumps 2024 campaign

The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to ban marketers from using fake reviews, such as those generated with AI technology, and other misleading advertising practices.
The ban also forbids marketers from exaggerating their own influence by, for example, paying for bots to inflate their follower count.
With the concurrent rise of e-commerce, influencer marketing and generative AI, more advertisers are turning to automated chatbots such as ChatGPT to quickly generate user reviews for products sold online.

[TylenolJones]

[Potato]

That was obviously cooked up in a policy meeting and some idiot who only found out about generative AI a week ago thought it was brilliant.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Maybe generate some housing.

[Nintex]

 Elon I need a genius policy for the homeless

 Let me uuhhh ask Grok Mr. President

[killamajig]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/a-teacher-caught-students-using-chatgpt-on-their-first-assignment-to-introduce-themselves-her-post-about-it-started-a-debate/ar-AA1qbKOC?ocid=socialshare&cvid=a54dd57181084b358fd400a8cdf0e775&ei=18

Professor Megan Fritts' first assignment to her students was what she considered an easy A: "Briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class."

Yet many of the students enrolled in her Ethics and Technology course decided to introduce themselves with ChatGPT.

[Potato]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/a-teacher-caught-students-using-chatgpt-on-their-first-assignment-to-introduce-themselves-her-post-about-it-started-a-debate/ar-AA1qbKOC?ocid=socialshare&cvid=a54dd57181084b358fd400a8cdf0e775&ei=18

Professor Megan Fritts' first assignment to her students was what she considered an easy A: "Briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class."
Yet many of the students enrolled in her Ethics and Technology course decided to introduce themselves with ChatGPT.

Colleague of mine decided to enrol in post grad university course. All online. The course coordinator asked everyone to introduce themselves on the course chat group and then used chatGPT to respond to each person. We know this because we tested it by asking chatGPT to respond to each person's intro and it basically shat out almost word for word what the lecturer posted in response to each student.

[Nintex]

Students these days can barely talk, call or type complete sentences.
They all seem say they suffer from dyslexia but it's really a lack of reading that is the cause.

I've had this discussion with a lot of people but I remain convinced that not letting them use ChatGPT is dumb.
If they can do everything with ChatGPT and score perfect grades, how is that a problem? It's like a calculator but for the mind.
If ChatGPT is wrong but they can still pass tests than clearly the tests aren't good enough.

I'd rather hire a student that is 50x more productive and profitable because they know how to get the best results from ChatGPT, than someone who performs 50% worse but doesn't use AI. After all, at some point I can probably completely replace them with AI.

[Ribosome]

The problem is that they're not really getting the best results from ChatGPT or curating its output at all. It's just copy-paste prompt, copy-paste answer. Zero editing, analysis, or vetting. 

It's just more of the same from a generation that has significantly become "post-technology." There's never been any interaction deeper than downloading apps from a store and consuming content spoonfed by an algorithm.

[Nintex]

The problem is that they're not really getting the best results from ChatGPT or curating its output at all. It's just copy-paste prompt, copy-paste answer. Zero editing, analysis, or vetting. 

It's just more of the same from a generation that has significantly become "post-technology." There's never been any interaction deeper than downloading apps from a store and consuming content spoonfed by an algorithm.

Then grade their work accordingly. 

Fs across the board, you failed, try again.

[Potato]

It seems the assessment needs to keep up with the technology. 

Don't just test on an essay, but make them present their work in person.. ask them questions. It will be very clear if they understand their essay or not

However, most academics detest students and teaching and that's obvious when you start digging into this type of thing.