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Doesn't look like AI upscaling to me. Looks like something more akin to 2xsai or hq4x or something like that. Common algorithms to upscale pixel art that predate current AI systems.
Not sure if this goes here or the “Capitalist Dystopia” thread…but Steve Burke over at Gamers Nexus made a video on their consumer advocacy second channel explaining the nature and dangers of the current “circle jerk” nature of the AI industry.
What's going on is that there's a massive AI bubble caused by the AI companies promising, but not actually, investing into each other: which is buoying the stock prices of all of them.
Nah, it's too smeary to be either of those; those retain solid blocks of color and turn jaggies into 45 degree bends. Think custom designs in Animal Crossing New Horizons. This definitely looks like AI or, at best, whatever they used for texture upscaling in BioShock 2 Remastered.
Update: the Prime Minister of Albania has announced that the AI minister is pregnant.Absolutely no way this can can go right.
Albania appoints AI bot ‘minister’ to fight corruption in world first
Sceptics wonder whether ‘Diella’, depicted as a woman in traditional folk costume, will herself be ‘corrupted’.www.aljazeera.com
(He means they're going to create a bunch of AI assistants for the human ministers, but that has to be the oddest way to announce it.)
Given the current state of politics almost everywhere...how can you even tell a difference?
I was going to make a crack about spewing barely-intelligible gibberish interspersed with terrible advice and poorly done hands, but then I remembered I'm in the US.
The economy is full of thneeds. It's darn near dependent on them. As Calvin's mom once said, "if people thought about real issues and needs instead of manufactured desires, the economy would collapse and we'd have total anarchy."
I think deep down, we all know this, but no one wants to admit the thing they like is one of those thneeds, so we avoid making waves about it.
I think deep down, we all know this, but no one wants to admit the thing they like is one of those thneeds, so we avoid making waves about it.
I mean, there's variable levels of thneed-ness. The problem with AI is that eliminating jobs will severely impair people's ability to buy thneeds, which is also gonna collapse the economy.
The fact that AI is largely incapable of replacing the workers eliminated is another layer of thneed-ness to the whole situation.
The fact that AI is largely incapable of replacing the workers eliminated is another layer of thneed-ness to the whole situation.
Replacing humans with machines failed to collapse the economy every other time it's been done, for one reason or another. You're probably not wrong, but to a lot of important people our warnings must sound suspiciously like "This time there really is a wolf!"
Previous machines at least brought something to the table. No one has yet demonstrated the benefit of these AI models for those of us who don't get replaced.
The last rounds of automation didn't directly replace people. It made it so that the individual was more productive. This automation push outright removes humans, or greatly reduces the needed skill and training for a position (in theory.).
While it's not what is actually happening, the corps are treating it like the robots from asimov's "The caves of steel".
When they start going after the rich. Musk has demonstrated many times that he doesn't care if his faulty products kill people, as long as they already paid. Until it hits someone with actual influence, nothing will be done.