Pretty cool use of MRIs and AI (machine learning to unroll them and read the letters).

Similar (or the same?) tech has been used to read the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. The clickbait thumbnails I’m used to are the ones where they show an image of something crazy that never actually occurs in the video itself.

That’s a shame, they make fun of how game companies are just enshittifying their products.

How is it a click-baity thumbnail? All of the characters in the thumbnail were in the video. I must be out of the loop on some obvious thing they are referencing with that picture.

Additional shots and cutaway can also be found here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x3d8GY

Very small… Only 17 participants.

This guy is like a character out of Homestar Runner.

For those who want to avoid Google/YouTube here’s an alternative link to his Odysee mirror of this video: https://odysee.com/@SomeOrdinaryGamers:a/twitch-is-a-disgustingly-evil:f

You can go into settings and change it so that it doesn’t show to anyone. But at some point they made an update and it reset those options to the default setting even if you had previously set it to hidden.

At that point I just went in and changed my name on my account settings.

They also gave him a fake line to deliver and didn’t reveal that Darth Vader was actually Luke’s father during the filming of that scene: https://www.soundandvision.com/news/100104hamill/

It’s such a great moment! The fake line that was put in there just to try and keep the secret was “You don’t know the truth: Obi-Wan killed your father!” But as much as I enjoyed leaking false information, it was a wonderfully hard secret to keep because (Irvin) Kershner, the director, brought me aside and said “Now I know this, and George knows this, and now you’re going to know this, but if you tell anybody, and that means Carrie or Harrison, or anybody, we’re going to know who it is because we know who knows.”. -Mark Hamill

I think the going saying at this point is “2 more years”.

They’ve definitely continued to pump out more features over the years. And some players have finally gotten to test out jump points to the next system “Pyro”… But I could easily see them continuing to develop this game for another 3-5 years before we see it in beta.

Star Citizen is another game that has implemented this level of detail, you just can’t smash the screens, yet…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsYrQ0uPKc

What do you mean by outdated? Most captchas are there to help them train their next ML model. Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/2228/

This sounds more useful to apply to specific, small portions of the sand, rather than applying it to an entire coastline.

“We can use it to strengthen the seabed beneath sea walls, stabilize sand dunes and retain unstable soil slopes. We could also use it to strengthen protection structures, marine foundations and so many other things. There are many ways to apply this to protect coastal areas.”

This is the first time I’m hearing about either of these YouTubers. Is the one from this particular video known for using clickbait tactics?

A few minutes in and it does look like the other content creator is clearly sourcing his scripts from others. Is there more to the story?

Part 1 also shows some evidence of fake contestants (who are actually actors) that end up winning the prize.

Relevant xkcd:

If only they had published all of their null results…

A fun Easter egg on Chromium browsers is that, when you get to 100 tabs, the number just turns into a smiley face.

I thought the same for a second, but it does link to this: https://gvid.tv/v/UR5kgL1P.mp4

My Lemmy app (Voyager) just doesn’t support linking to a video like this apparently.

If it’s hard to post images on Lemmy… Maybe use a better app?

Voyager works really well for this. I’m most others should work as well.

I would counter that there are many good use cases that go beyond the scope of what was mentioned in the video (his concerns are absolutely legitimate).

For example:
Nvidia’s DLSS for gamers. This provides a decent boost to FPS while maintaining a good quality picture. They use multiple models such as motion prediction, interpreting between the frames what the image should look like, and upscaling. These models are (most likely) trained on the video games themselves which is why you want to get the latest driver updates because they include updates to those models. And, yes, the upscaling and interpolation models here are generative models as they are filling in frames with new pictures with details that aren’t there from the source, and then enlarging the picture and filling in details in a way that traditional means of upscaling cannot.

Brainstorming/writer’s block:
For generative text models, I think these have to be used carefully, and treated as if they’re interns that have a knowledge in a very broad range of subjects. They’re great for brainstorming ideas and for writer’s block, but their output needs to be verified for accuracy and the output shouldn’t be trusted or used directly in most cases.

Entertainment:
They’re also excellent for entertainment purposes, for example, check out this GLaDOS project:
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1csnexs/local_glados_now_running_on_windows_11_rtx_2060/
Which is combining a generative text (LLM) model with a generative audio (text to speech) model as well as a few other models.

Green screen tools:
We could use the sodium vapor process to create training material for a model that can quickly and accurately handle processing green screens for video production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

Creating avatars for user accounts on websites.

Creating interesting QR codes that actually work:

https://civitai.com/models/111006/qr-code-monster

So, in the end, I think that there are some incredible uses for generative AI that go beyond just “creating garbage fast”, that don’t cause problems in the way that this video is describing (and those problems he describes are definitely valid).