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  1. 2 minutes ago, Speedtrucker said:

    Funny but… noir gets killed by him like 10 min later…

    I'm not sure that we've watched the same version of The Boys then lol

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  2. I really like the writing in this show - Cassian ended up in an imperial work prison because he bailed on his crew and went to space Miami to lay low. Now he is going to get it beaten into him that there is no lying low with the empire, and that you can't make it through that sort of oppression on your own. You'll get quickly killed instead of slowly ground down if you don't support your brothers alongside you in resisting. I can't wait to see what happens with the prison sign language 

    It's a really nice contrast against the Saw Guererra monologue where nobody would pass his purity test and so he refused to get involved with the cause. Doubled in as well with the elite do-nothing class debating the idea of the PORD (the space patriot act) while cutting back to a shell shocked Cassian in a 6 year sentence for looking suspicious and resisting arrest. 

    Just phenomenal stuff. 

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  3. 17 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    If it is true that the output is not the concern, but the architecture of the NN, the latter is not the subject of copyright, anyway.  Perhaps the literal code, but nothing else.

    Bingo. Even someone knowing your NN architecture, all the layers and interconnects, doesn't really get them anything. They also need weights (how important a neuron is in the next layer), and biases (how much a neuron reacts to it's connections) to actually define the behavior of the NN. Finding the right weights and biases is what model training is, and where you'll spend the big bucks in your data science and ML practice

  4. 1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Does the AI produce the same image for the same prompt? Does it do different things based on whether the input is typed or spoken? If the human can manipulate the AI's performance in ways that others found hard to replicate, that'd be interesting but not meaningful-- people copy other artists all the time.

    Dall-E is a generative neural net that takes a natural language prompt (spoken or written doesn't matter) and parses it with natural language processing (NLP) to understand the subject and style it is meant to produce. From there, it goes through the black box of layers of neurons and weights and biases (read: the "AI") to produce an image of the subject along with any other modifiers.

    Generative NN's like Dall-E usually don't do the same thing twice for the same reason that you usually can't do the same thing exactly the same twice - the input conditions are never exactly the same. But it's going to be pretty dang similar every time. Either way, the output isn't really the thing of value here that you would want to keep protected - it's the model itself and it's bespoke neural net architecture, calibration of it's neurons and their interconnections, and the controlling logic to orchestrate turning language into imagery. 

     

    Although much of the copyright complaints I've heard is in relation to Dall-E looking at other works while training it's NN, and copy holders arguing that Dall-E is simply copying the work, which is also inaccurate. The NN has nothing in it that resembles the original image, just the concept of what the image is. 

    It's a little bit heady, but there's an emerging field of neural graphics in which rather than rendering pixels into a scene based on static reference data in a file, you train a neural net to "remember" it for you. It doesn't really fit to the classical copyright definition or model. Check out my thread in nerdz if you would like to know more

    Interestingly, this conversation is going around the AI/ML community at my work from an academic and technical perspective, and nobody there really has any emerging consensus aside from the lawyers will probably get it wrong 

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  5. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Russia is hurting bad, things are getting worse for them, their mobilized soldiers last less than a week before they are killed, wounded, captured or go AWOL, so they’ve amplified their social media messages about trying to start ceasefire talks while Russian troops are still on Ukrainian soil, and Putin is tossing out more nuclear threats, which scares ignorant people who aren’t paying much attention.

    It's funny watching someone try to use the "gaslight, obfuscate, project" playbook to get out of a jam of their own creation. Thank God that right wing nationalist world leaders aren't very successful long-term strategists, otherwise we'd have a whole bunch of ignorant people not paying attention arguing that Ukraine should just surrender or that we're in the wrong for helping Ukraine

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  6. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    None of them will do Trump smearing shit in his hair.

    I am dissapoint.

    They won't do any specific public person, what for fear of deepfakery. The folks who built this dataset and model have also published reams on the measures they've taken to protect against abuse and creation of disinformation 

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  7. 7 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    This show continues to be very engaging. It’s going to eclipse ANH and ESB if it keeps up this pace. It’s unfortunate it sounds like no one is watching it so this is probably all we will get of the adult Star Wars.

    The show is definitely going to continue to lean into more harsh and uncomfortable issues - the Andor trailer showed him in a prison planet working in what looks quite a bit like an apple factory. I suspect there's going to be some folks complaining that "Star Wars is getting too political" as the show explores the prison industrial complex, especially after Andor got booked on what was basically a Terry Stop lol

  8. 25 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    No Tombstone this season - apparently Ray had a very serious hand injury and is taking the season off to recover and rehabilitate. 

    Hate to hear that about Ray, he was a really nice guy to meet in person and get nerdy with lol. However, probably for the better for tombstone. I feel like that bot destroys itself and then fills the box with smoke most matches, and is in need of some redesign. 

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  9. 15 minutes ago, DoneWithit said:

    The development of each character is spot on thus far. The way they are methodically working Cassian into the guy he is in Rouge One through conversations with his mother, Bix and etc is nice to see. I think too many times in SW, action scenes take the cake and we miss the personal side of things. Maybe more so recently. That’s why I think the dialogue and writing is so good in this show, I.e. Cassian and his mother discussing leaving together.  There’s layers to each character he interacts with, which in return reflects the grey zone of the rebel cause. 

    Not to mention Luthen, Mon Mothma, and the ISB scenes hold a bunch of tension, and have been some of the best in the series. 

    Yes to everything you're saying here. This show feels like an old school EU paperback brought to life, breathing detail into the nitty gritty of the universe. I never would've thought we would get a cyberpunk-esque depiction of corporate drones inside the imperial machine, and yet we're getting a main character in the depth of that hell. 

    I am FEASTING on this show, loving every minute of every episode. Every conversation between every character means something, and we're really seeing the point of crystalization where the polite facade of society drops away to reveal the growing authoritarian government that was there all along. 

    And yeah, I really dig the ISB politicking and gamesmanship - it echoes how real authoritarian governments used that dynamic to keep people at each other's throats instead of asking why society sucked so bad

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  10. This is incredible technology, but Dall-E 2 and neural nets and all of that are themselves the copyrightable artifact (read: THE MODEL!) - those weights, biases, neural layers, etc etc are what takes human insight and creation. The art is simply the output from using a tool that someone (or many other people) made - could you copyright pressing "go" on a tormach CNC?

    The results are incredible, but are not the works of a person or entity that can otherwise originate ownership. 

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