ShadowRam

The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

Going into the movie, audience isn’t sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of ‘monster’, magical entity, etc.

The suspense and trying to piece together “Just wtf is it that’s hunting them an why” is the entire point of the movie.

As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world ‘jungle’ and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn’t an alien species want to do the same?

Why wouldn’t an alien species want ‘sport’ in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

Predator 2 was ‘slightly’ interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

• is there more than 1
• do they hunt other things?
• what kind of other technology do they have?

But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it’s an audience member going into something like “Prey” completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.

I’ve owned the first gen Steam Deck since the day it came out. (LCD)

No problems, greatly enjoy it.

Question is… How much cheaper…

LFP is almost at the price point we could all have a freezer sized battery pack in our house, drastically changing the grid, and allowing a place for all that wind/solar to store energy.

If Sodium is a fair chunk cheaper, then it will totally be worth buying a house battery pack. Buying energy on the cheap at certain times of day, and using the battery when energy prices are high.

Train a model on nothing but drama,

(Just about all written text is drama, otherwise it wouldn’t be written down, whether it’s internet comments or stories)

Your output will always be drama.

What a Robo-sexual !

AI will wipe out humanity without firing a shot.

It’ll just kill all reproductivity by flooding the market with sexbots.

Unfortunately in the white collar world.

it was instead of my regular work,

‘regular work’ typically isn’t covered by someone else.

It piles up until you get to it.

I remember when they moved or you could interact with them via FLASH.

requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.

good luck proving and putting an accurate number to that perceived ‘damage’?

No they’re not.

I mean, what’s that got to do with anything?

NFT’s were always useless.

AI however has tangible uses

Comparing the two is stupid.

Just because people are trying to use AI for dumb things they don’t understand as per your example, doesn’t negate the actual real world uses of AI.

Sure. Hate/Laugh and point fingers at ignorant people that don’t understand the tech, attempt and fail to use it in certain ways.

But don’t be more ignorant than those people by thinking AI as a technology in general is some kind of short term fad that’s just going to disappear.

Uhhh,

Unlilke NFT’s , AI is actually doing real things?!?

I’m mean, it’s not replacing peoples jobs,

But I’m actively using it to remove noise, recognize objects, up-scaling, motion planning, create songs, create images, condense large amounts of text, christ, lots of actual useful tools…

ahh… I was wondering when people were going to start talking about Tariffs in relation to streaming services and purchasing software…

The same thing its been for the last 20 years?

I don’t seem to understand your question.

Note: Anyone that wants to clean up the noise background,

Run it through nVidia Broadcast.

careless testing is careless.

I have no respect for anyone that just blasts a rocket off with no protection below it.

Don’t pretend he’s innovating. He’s fucking around because he has fuck you money, and doesn’t give a shit about the damage he causes.

So what’s this mean?

He’ll take US Tax Dollars and put them in Crypto?

Sounds like a great way to bankrupt your entire country back into the stone age.

The dude that wrote this blog is a goof…

defines backdoor as “relating to something that is done secretly

effectively constitute a “private API”, and a company’s choice to not publicly document their private API

Idiot thinks these are two different things…

Are they are trying to argue that malicious intent is needed to define it as a back door?

Moron…

not one AI compagny has ever made a single dime,

You’re confusing AI Training with AI implementation.

AI Training is the big cost.

AI implementation is where the money is made, and lots is being made.

it would need to bring real value

Are you fucking kidding me? Are you that obtuse to the millions of subscriptions people are dishing out?

Are you not aware of the AI vision systems being used in the past 5 years making fucking $$$$$$$$ ?

All of us gamers out there… all that $$$ into hardware to have DLSS is just ‘no real value’ ??

Why are you commenting on a topic you clearly have no idea how or where its being used?

it’s usually an attack on workers

No. It’s innovation. As was horse carriages and other technologies/jobs being out of date

the industry steals directly from artists

Valid Argument!! Training AI based on existing voice actor recordings is true valid concern. But this won’t stop the industry with eventually having really good vocaloids, or finding people willing to donate their voice or sell it on the cheap.

these companies are massive polluters/ emitters

Bullshit. There’s no reason any AI training needs to happen at 100% duty cycle. It can run straight off pure solar with no batteries. Trains only when the sun shines. That said, the power source is irrelevant to the argument. Not all nations rely on fossil fuels.

it makes you look like a rube

Whining that society is moving forward and a old job is being obsoleted makes you look like a rube. Want to take your voice acting to the next level? Do something like the Critical Role folks did and adapt.