blobjim

joined 5 years ago
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Almost anything is edible if it's that small...

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Kim Jong Un is a bit behind on standing lessons.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently the stufio is actually owned by Tencent so it's actually Chinese-owned so that's a plus.

From the website:

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that Grapes of Wrath passage is based on this.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

People should read the article. He talks a lot about how they completely failed.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Ah Done with That" at 10:20 is great. But it doesn't seem to say what country it's from and it seems ungoogleable.

Did find another version though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7PGaeDn-k

Ah Done with Dat · Singing Diane

Then & Now

℗ 2011 Hometown Music / VPAL Music

Released on: 2011-08-23

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

But are there at least 13 genders?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Is that really necessary? I'm using a new CPU and motherboard with multiple drives, (and an older GPU) and my computer maxes out at around 350 W.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

full of slight liberalism and slight western chauvinism, but mostly properly anti-American 👍, especially one of the best video segments I've seen on YouTube recently at around 58:00, should be clipped separately for distribution.

finally finished it and it's pretty great.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Feels like OpenAI has like every ruling class person on it's board or in some kind of partnership or something. Absolutely bizarre structure. But it makes more sense when you see companies as clubs for American rulers. Every big company (including the one I work for) has people who came directly from other companies in various industries on their board. They're often basically pushing for a closer relationship with said companies too. You could call it "incestuous" but it's basically just networking for this country's economic managers. But for some reason this is supposed to be hush hush or something. As if everything is about "free market competition" between entirely atomic, self-interested, nameless faceless companies. It isn't. It's just people.

Also this is literally a diagram from their website:

https://openai.com/our-structure/

The only real thing I see on their website about who's at the company is at the bottom of that page:

OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, currently comprised of Independent Directors Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It looks like "AI" is here to stay

I don't think chatbots are a very strong sign of being "here to stay".

From the excerpt of another article that loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml quoted, the actual useful uses of machine learning have already been adopted by Apple. There was no need for this ridiculous "OpenAI" collaboration thing other than as either a stock price boost thing or marketing. All of the stuff labelled "AI" or "generative AI" is just worthless garbage, even though they've already implemented all kinds of actually useful stuff. It's such a weird phenomenon. Is anyone actually falling for this stuff?

 

They helped fight the Japanese Empire in WWII. Couldn't find this guy on the Wikipedia list of Flying Tigers.

https://apnews.com/article/china-flying-tigers-e28dfba82bf938545b2990242697374e

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

 

🫡

 

Thought it was interesting because at 39:00 he talks about moving to China and he espouses basically the same worldview as people on here.

 

 

Xi Jinping spoke.

Putin spoke.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke (the Soviet-trained new leader of Kazakhstan as of I think last year or something).

Joko Widodo spoke.

Alberto Fernández spoke.

Abiy Ahmed spoke.

Antonio Gutierrez spoke. Kinda crazy that the UN guy is speaking at something that is explicitly run by China. Pretty cool. He's talking about Israel-Palestine now. I feel like he didn't get the memo that this is supposed to be mostly just about Belt and Road lmao. It's like it's just a UN general secretary speech hour lol.

Other world leaders there. Including VIktor Orban 🤢 🤮

Dilma Rouseff is there. 😍

It's such a powerful image to see all the flags along the wall of so many different countries.

 

alternate video link: https://streamable.com/0jp0xw

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