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BobbyBorn2L8 t1_ja5ukc8 wrote
Reply to comment by Certain_Push_2347 in New tech could bring affordable, hyper realistic screens with 1000+ Hz refresh rates by Sorin61
Its well known these days that 'AAA' devs aren't optimising properly for PC, don't defend the practice when people are clearly having issues
DaReal890 t1_ja5ue38 wrote
Reply to Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread. Have you a tech question or want to discuss tech? by veritanuda
Why is computer's name: "computer"?
cute_viruz t1_ja5touo wrote
Reply to New tech could bring affordable, hyper realistic screens with 1000+ Hz refresh rates by Sorin61
This will not come out to the public
WarriorZombie t1_ja5sh72 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated by PauloPatricio
They are very artistic, not going to lie, but also they look “off”, especially when there are many of them together. You start seeing “fake sameness”
unknown_elemental t1_ja5sguq wrote
Reply to comment by GOR098 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
I would check, but she also dropped it yesterday so, oh well. Thanks for the help.
[deleted] t1_ja5se9e wrote
Reply to comment by UsernameJonesHere in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8
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marketrent OP t1_ja5s8gw wrote
Reply to Caught between Microsoft's and Google's search war, the ad industry grapples with a 'exciting and terrifying' new reality by marketrent
Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Ryan Joe, Lara O'Reilly, and Lauren Johnson:
>As Microsoft and Google duke it out to control the future of search, the advertisers and publishers who rely so much on search-generated traffic are struggling to figure out how it will impact their businesses.
>"It's possibly the most enormous set of changes in the tech industry since the birth of the web in the '90s," said Paul Bannister, chief strategy officer of CafeMedia, which oversee the ads business for about 4,000 publishers, like Merriam-Webster and the food blog Half-Baked Harvest.
>While both Microsoft and Google are racing to bring AI-powered search to consumers, they have said nothing to either publishers or advertisers about how these tools will impact traffic and ad revenue, multiple sources told Insider.
>Microsoft declined to comment. Google didn't respond in time for publication.
>"It's simultaneously exciting and terrifying," said Chris Schimkat, global head of analytics at the IPG-owned performance marketing agency Reprise Digital.
>"But for a lot of marketers in particular, if this is taking over content writing and image generation, where can we continue to provide value? And that's going to be a pretty prominent question."
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>One of the biggest concerns is that if AI-powered search engines provide all the information people need without them having to click through to any websites, it will reduce traffic and ad revenue for publishers.
>Bannister doesn't think AI-powered search will change advertising drastically in the short term, but even small changes can have an impact on business.
>"If it decreases search click throughs by 3%, that's 3% less page views to a lot of sites," he said. "So I think it's right to be worried. But we also want to get the facts and figure out how it's going to work and what are the new opportunities."
>Many publishers are familiar with how their traffic has been chipped away by search engines as they've evolved.
>"We've been dealing with this shrinking search landscape for many years now, as Google and the likes have tried to answer these questions directly within search results," said Kyle Sutton, director of SEO and product at the publisher Gannett, which owns USA Today and local news sites.
>"Look no further than sports scores. You know that used to be guaranteed traffic?"
>Now, when people search for scores or similar types of basic information, Google populates the answer in a module called a Featured Snippet on the search page, Sutton noted.
^1 Ryan Joe, Lara O'Reilly, and Lauren Johnson for Axel Springer’s Insider, 10 Feb. 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/the-search-war-between-microsoft-and-google-has-the-ad-industry-caught-in-the-crosshairs-2023-2
jugonewild t1_ja5rxve wrote
Reply to comment by Egon88 in 4 Canadian privacy regulators to undertake joint probe of TikTok by No-Drawing-6975
Why do you think that?
beders t1_ja5rcym wrote
Reply to comment by palox3 in Are AI chatbots off the rails or doing just what they were designed to do? by Ssider69
It’s astounding how you are not aware of the categorical differences between von Neumann architecture based machines and the brain.
Simple linear algebra algorithms like chatGPT are not even close to be comparable to our wet ware. The jury is still out if our brain functions are even computable (in the computer science sense)
So, cut down the hype and appreciate what chatGPT is and isn’t. It is not a stepping stone to an AGI. It is a great text completion engine.
Foktu t1_ja5r8u9 wrote
Reply to comment by honey_rainbow in A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated by PauloPatricio
If people are using it, winning with it, but lying about it, and therefore profiting...probably right now.
4077 t1_ja5qk0d wrote
Reply to comment by RamsesA in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8
Or just not use Instagram.
S7ormstalker t1_ja5qiih wrote
Reply to comment by GMW-5610 in WhatsApp is working on a private newsletter feature by marketrent
I just told my relatives I uninstalled WhatsApp and they had to contact me via Signal if they needed me. Now all my relatives have Signal, and the younger relatives are making their friends switch over to the new hip platform.
dokushin t1_ja5qazz wrote
Reply to comment by dungone in Limitless Possibilities – AI Technology Generates Original Proteins From Scratch by Vailhem
Hah; no. What we've been doing is a form of incremental improvement, taking existing proteins and modeling a single fold in an attempt to evolve a new one, gradually forcing the protein towards some desired property. We've been largely unable to design proteins from the ground up and have them actually work.
This thing just up and spat out thousands of functional proteins from scratch, which is unheard of. There are proteins solving the same problem with completely different structures. Just one of those novel, functioning proteins is the end goal of everything we've been trying to do for decades. This is pretty incredible.
grinde t1_ja5q73z wrote
Reply to comment by BigBoss2710 in Colombia court moves to metaverse to host hearing by marketrent
Dean Judge Craig Pelton?
mvw2 t1_ja5pwjn wrote
Reply to A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated by PauloPatricio
I glance at those pics for half a second and instantly recognize those aren't real. It doesn't look photographic. It doesn't look drawn. It just looks...off.
ElementNumber6 t1_ja5psak wrote
Reply to comment by honey_rainbow in A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated by PauloPatricio
Oh we're well past that point.
Post-downvote edit: Most just don't seem to see it yet.
Egon88 t1_ja5prsz wrote
Reply to comment by jugonewild in 4 Canadian privacy regulators to undertake joint probe of TikTok by No-Drawing-6975
Doesn’t say anything like what you claimed
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Bobby_Marks2 t1_ja5oz9f wrote
Reply to comment by fizzlefist in Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
And Tesla may very well give up the exclusivity of their charging network in order to qualify for the federal EV rebate.
locri t1_ja5owrc wrote
Reply to comment by honey_rainbow in A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated by PauloPatricio
I doubt it can, the issue is AI and the technology created by engineers has greatly outstripped an untrained person's ability to understand the tools that have been created. But there are just tools and like any tool absolutely requires an operator... If anything it's the operators going too far but not quite.
AI art seems to be an issue for people who want to idolise artists, not for artists themselves who by this stage should understand ideas beyond post modernism such as the expression or intent behind the art being more valuable than the outcome itself. IE, splatter paintings (postmodernism) have no value and neither does the hyper realistic neo romanticism that AI art seemingly excels at.
Bobby_Marks2 t1_ja5ov1a wrote
Reply to comment by InvisibleEar in Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
Yeah we went from Leaf to Chevy Bolt and I'd recommend the Bolt all day long over the Leaf.
kakapoopoopeepeeshir t1_ja5okaj wrote
I follow #hipflexorstrength on Instagram because I’ve really been trying to strengthen mine and I want to see cool exercises. The last few days I go into look at them when I have free time at work and there’s photos of girls with their asses hanging out in thongs and doing sexual thngs I’m and like why is this on this page!
TrinityF t1_ja5nrgi wrote
Reply to AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system by marketrent
AI image geenrator users
99.8% amateurs Generating porn.
0.02% Actual Artists trying to make a living from it
ElementNumber6 t1_ja5n3dx wrote
Reply to comment by MadDog00312 in New tech could bring affordable, hyper realistic screens with 1000+ Hz refresh rates by Sorin61
Micro LED displays have been commercially possible for 5 years, and they scale extremely well, meaning a 100" TV panel could be produced without (compared to other such technologies) much more work than a 1.5" watch display, and they are better in just about every possible way.
And yet, they remain future tech for the most part, likely due to the fact existing technologies still have roadmaps to be milked for many years to come.
Rkozlow t1_ja5umhb wrote
Reply to Caught between Microsoft's and Google's search war, the ad industry grapples with a 'exciting and terrifying' new reality by marketrent
There is a internet search battle? Are they talking about Bing? I thought that was only good for porn.