I haven’t used AI agents yet, but my job is kinda pushing for them. but i have used the google one that creates audio podcasts, just to play around, since my coworkers were using it to “learn” new things. i feed it with some of my own writing and created the podcast. it was fun, it was an audio overview of what i wrote. about 80% was cool analysis, but 20% was straight out of nowhere bullshit (which i know because I wrote the original texts that the audio was talking about). i can’t believe that people are using this for subjects that they have no knowledge. it is a fun toy for a few minutes (which is not worth the cost to the environment anyway)

no, for sure there are limits. if you cultivated a whole functional brain, for example, would be dystopic af

i would not call Lucier a musican, but i do find some of his sound art interesting. ‘I am sitting in a room’ can be kinda meditative in an interesting way

it is important to note that the article says that Alvin eagrly agreed to this experiment, and donated the blood for it. If that is true, then I don’t see any ethical dillemma in here

argentina has a lot of immigration from other latin american countries

the gulf of mexico isn’t bordering any country in south america

i just can’t think of any. like the article says, i fully expected the app to send data to china. but even if you are maliciously spying on users, why would you send the stolen data on unsecured channels? so that everyone in the path takes advantage of the data your wanted to steal?

i don’t know how xcom does it, but if you are reloading a save, it is possible that you are always using the same random number generator, so the results would not change

Nebula is an alternative, it is creator-owned and against AI

you wouldn’t need a flac file, you can use any wav file, the audio of both is identical.

regadring your question, you can think mp3 as the jpeg of music. both mp3 and jpeg use fourier transforms*. so, to image what mp3 is doing to the audio, you can see what jpeg does to images (spoiler alert, unless you are aggressively compressing it, it is not noticable)

(*jpeg actually use discrete cosine transform instead of fft, but it is similiar enough)

maybe i have never been in proper situations, then, because in my experience, people will use pronouns or names indistinctly

The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

not going to lie. i thought that the relationship would last a bit longer. still would flame out the moment trump first saw a “president musk” joke thou

Mac owners have money? more like had money

well, with 2 trolleys it is the same amount of suffering as with 1

the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the “eat fat-free food and you will be thin” solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological

not OP, but according to some of those definitions (cambridge, collins, longman), NYC would be the only metropolis in the US, as it is the US’ largest, busiest, and most important city.

Well, he had a brainworm. Fortunately for him, the worm starved to death before it could make much damage

legit, if youtube ever beats ublock origin, i’ll just stop watching youtube

yeah, there is no way the measurement instrument was precise enough to make that last decimal significant