This is just pushing us closer to the Terminator or "I Have No Mouth and I Must scream" science fiction, but entirely plausible scenarios.

The former, everyone is mostly aware of from the second film due to Cyberdyne. The latter people are less familiar with.

Both basically are "AI takes over and exterminates humanity", both centering on an advanced AI having access to everything. So what is the ultimate play by both? Humanity is a threat to itself, so it must exterminate humanity.

Even "The Matrix" is a more looser interpretation of the same scenario. Where the AI basically uses humanity enslaved to what's sometimes referred to as an Elysium simulation. (Basically your consciousness is trapped in the computer, your physical body may or may not still exist.) It's not like this hasn't been visited before in Star Trek either.

The general idea is that any advanced AI should never have it's fingers on the extinction button. This was alluded to in "Mass Effect" with the Geth and EDI, and "Star Trek" as well (which is why Commander Data is just one android.)

Like the unfortunate thing is, if we feed the AI infinite amounts of data, without instructions on how it's allowed to use it, it will ultimately use it to evil means (by which I mean selfish means, since the AI has no concept of "doing evil for evil's sake")

This is why I think orbital weapons and autonomous weapons should not be things that an AI has the authority to fire.

That's been doable for 20 years.

It doesn't work on really complicated music (eg vocals, chorus, orchestration) but it works for the vast majority of low-effort music, which includes AI music, guitar and piano solos, drum solos, anything that has a very solid melody. You can see this in youtube when it's AI identifies music "melodies" without claiming the actual track.

Anyone who is really musically inclined, can completely reverse engineer any song just from listening to it. I can do that, if I think about it. but I don't have the tools or time to reverse engineer a song because I have no incentive to. If someone said "here's a million dollars, I need you to re-create my song from 30 years ago that has never been on CD." I could probably do that.

But the effort to do that would be substantial, because part of it is identifying the musical instruments, and part of it is identifying the human characteristics. Humans operate in the analog spectrum. Computers do not. So if a song is F, A, D, F, A, D, E, G#, C# (that is "the phantom of the opera") there are two things happening at the same time. The main instrument is an Organ, so F A D is held down for that, but the left hand is the "beat" which is "D" for the same 10 notes. So when a human plays it on an Organ, the instrument itself is responsible for for the connection between the notes. If you play it as a MIDI file, it can't match what the actual 1986 song sounds like. In fact, usually a MIDI version sounds rushed because it's played on an instrument that is not an Organ. So any time you come across a MIDI of a song, it usually sounds like instruments are missing.

Hence the idea about an AI being able to transcribe music back into sheet music/midi. MIDI's are just digital representations of sheet music. In theory you should be able to listen to anything and create a sheet music of it. But for a lot of really practical reasons, there are different sheet music representations, usually one per instrument, and when you have an orchestra, that slight latency of human's playing it is what isn't reproducible in MIDI form, and an AI can neither transcribe or recreate it.

All present machine learning when it comes to producing output, average it's training input. So the result is that AI generated music is a gross facsimile of real music. Sure it sounds like music, but it's an average of what thousands of other songs sound like. So this works like "inpainting" for music. It guesses what is most common next sound, without any understanding of the music theory.

It's been possible for decades to procedurally generate music as well, which unlike "AI", actually does take into account music theory. If you played Portal/Portal2, No Man's Sky, Deep Rock Galactic, some of that music was procedural. You'd likely never of really noticed that much because the procedural stuff doesn't stick out. Yet "Still Alive" from Portal does, because it's actually sung.

There is literately a program called "music maker" that does this without AI.

The entire point of "AI music" is to fleece youtube and tiktok.

I'm sure you've seen dozens of youtube shorts or tiktoks with music you've never heard of in the background, even over commercial copyrighted content like the simpsons or south park. The big scam is to rip the heart of the episode, mirror it, put this shitty AI music in it, and then get free money from youtube from it's use.

Considering they aren't going out of their way to disable the encoder itself.

> Nokia sued HP and Amazon in October 2023 in multiple countries such as USA, UK and more for violating H.264/H.265 patents

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courtlistener.com%2Fdocket%2F67928650%2F1%2Fnokia-technologies-oy-v-hp-inc%2F

Patents on HEVC won't be clear until like 2030. Modes for VR won't expire until like 2050

Dunning–Kruger is not a thing. It's an excuse for morons to ignore the smartest person in the room because they can't/won't pull the their fingers out of their ears and ass long enough.

Every time I see someone try to excuse an argument as Dunning–Kruger, they fail to realize what Dunning–Kruger is. Essentially the person bringing it up, IS the person with the Dunning–Kruger dementia.

The correct term to use here is journalists told to say specific things because they are owned by specific morons who have business interests. Those anti-vaxxers are fueled by snake oil 'supplement' grifters. They aren't interested in anyone not getting covid. They've been pushing this for all vaccines. They want to sell people an expensive ineffective supplement, or some radioactive bracelet instead of just getting the vaccine and having a better than 0% chance of not becoming ill.

Or, you could stay inside October to March and work from home and avoid the anti-vaxxer morons spreading covid, influenza, and measles. All of these diseases cause brain swelling, which in turn means suffering temporary or permanent brain damage. So why risk that?

True Skeptics question the motives of anti-vaxxers, and you know why that is? Snake oil.

Skeptics follow the science. Morons believe shit on facebook.

Someone probably had a patent on it.

Solar cells are much more efficient now, so perhaps they have enough to power a bluetooth/wifi chip instead of infrared.

But that said, I wonder how much cheeto grease the solar remote can take before it doesn't work anymore. People forget the reason the remotes stop working is usually not even the battery, it's because the remote button faces wear off or the actual button materials wear down. You might only replace the batteries twice in the device's lifetime.

Unfortunately nobody is being impressed with AI because the companies being the most pushy with it, have bad intentions.

Like let me explain something simple. I want a human-sounding TTS voice. Because these godawful AI companies want to make as much money as possible, they charge by the syllable. For something that doesn't even sound good.

If I go find an actor/actress that I like the sound of their voice of, and want to create a weird golem of a voice, what I'd do is get several 48khz 16-bit recordings from audio books of that actor, run it through the training (because I have their voice and the book they are reading) and then find a performance style of that actor/actress I want (from maybe a movie or or television show) and thus "skin" that voice to sound like that performance. That will give me a 95% reasonable sounding voice for all the words from the books they read, and a 10% accuracy on words that they never ever said before.

But these godawful voices that google, microsoft and amazon have, sound like they were trained on 10000 ebooks at 22khz and averaged out the tonal sound in a way that you can always tell it's a godawful AI voice because they always sound like a worn audio cassette tape.

This same happens with image generation and text generation. It doesn't sound human, it doesn't look human created, it just looks like a mashup of things that are designed to pass the minimum standard of "I can hear/read it", not actually parse out creativity.

Like I'll give some AI's a few points for solving a "better than absolutely nothing", like with translation of text, or auto-dubbing foreign voices, or allowing a programmer to figure out how to write something in a programming language they don't particularly like, but what these companies are offering is a lot of "AI will replace you", not "AI will help you"

If I had unlimited money, I'd hire all the programmers, artists, voice actors, animators, I need to make a project, but I do not have tha tmoney. But I certainly am not going to spend money on an AI to crap-shoot "barely passable" every time.

Clouldflare flaunts copyright law, and when you send a DMCA they just turn around and go "we are protected by the DMCA, pbbt."

c. Information Residing on Systems or Networks At Direction of Users
1.a
(i)does not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing;
(ii)in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or
(iii)upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;

Most DMCA's are for this. However Cloudflare claims they are 512b.
(b)System Caching.—
(1)Limitation on liability.—A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the intermediate and temporary storage of material on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider in a case in which—
(A)the material is made available online by a person other than the service provider;
(B)the material is transmitted from the person described in subparagraph (A) through the system or network to a person other than the person described in subparagraph (A) at the direction of that other person; and
(C)the storage is carried out through an automatic technical process for the purpose of making the material available to users of the system or network who, after the material is transmitted as described in subparagraph (B), request access to the material from the person described in subparagraph (A),

The the thing is. Cloudflare controls the DNS, that's how their entire DDoS mitigation strategy works. If you rip that away from them, copyright holders could get the ip address of the real host and go after them.

When you send a DMCA to cloudflare they just send it right to the copyright infringer who cares fuck-all with it, and then uses your contact information to order 1000 pizzas, and sign you up to every mailing list in existance.

More or less.

AI companies are overselling the capability, but who wants to watch this shitty EP-mode VHS-quality videos with no lip sync, and sounding like they're being played on an analog telephone.

The few "looks not that shitty" AI stuff I've seen has been stuff set to music. But there is no consistency scene to scene.

The few good uses of the AI video shit are like "vine" style 10 second react meme's. Stuff that you need a 'react' to immediately and can't commission someone to animate and wait a month to get back. Basically video shitposts.

Between Oracle and Cisco, both of them are exceptionally awful.

Oracle because they basically bought out open source software (MySQL, Sun/Open/LibreOffice) or acquired (eg Java) technology to try and extinguish competition for it's own products. And then did nothing but let it's own products and the stuff they acquired rot. Like I can name even more products that clients moved away from because Oracle bought them and then tried to shove them down to their own worse proprietary products.

Cisco has done exactly the same thing, acquired Linksys because of the open source routers they were selling, and then let it rot. Cisco has done this hundreds of times.

Look good god, every time I see Oracle show up in news I secretly hope the company is going be broken up or go bankrupt.

Yes, but show-off wealthy people do this all the time, even when they are not involved in crime.

Like, the smartest thing to do when you have wealth is live like a normal person, the only person who will see how much money you have is the bank if you go in person. Use the online app/website to do anything, or even everything.

If you have a family who doesn't understand this, then you don't even show your wealth to them. Live like a poor slob in front of them, and never show them your wealth either.

Like in the current anti-intellectual climate in the US, the dumbest thing to do would be to marry someone who has an extended family of grifters. How do you know if that extended family are grifters? Do they seem to waste money they don't even have? Do they live on credit? Do they keep paying off credit with debt from something else and then pay that with credit somewhere else?

I have never seen a legitimate use for bitcoin once it's "value" got over $10. All the shittiest people in the world piled into it.

That is how it's been, Those AI tools were trained on open source/public domain content, so any contribution by AI tools must be considered released under public domain. It does not get simpler than that, and current US copyright law has already indicated that any AI created works are not eligible for copyright. So disclosing it as partially or completely AI generated = Public Domain. If at some point someone can prove that code created by a tool was pilfered from a OSS project, then you can re-disclose it as such, but only for OSS projects that previously existed before 2015. As for this cut off point, that's to ensure that no material generated by LLM's is backdated/forked into another backdated project. A hard cut off would be 2019.

Basically if you took every submitted line of code and searched git hub for it, you should not see anything resembling it.

But we need to be honest up front here too, no harm will come to the Linux kernel if it accepts AI generated code, the people doing the code review and the people submitting the patches must be completely honest about the AI use, what AI was used, what model was used and what prompt was used. No automated acceptance of patches. All patches must produce safe code out of the box. No special compiler directives, all warnings must be treated as errors.

Hey remember that PRC is responsible for debris in 2007 by blowing up a satellite on purpose. They have no excuses.

Everyone launching shit into space better have a goal to clean up space, or any of those billionaires wanting to go to mars are going to ... you know what never mind, let them have launch accidents when they decide to leave.

Legally speaking, you can not call yourself an engineer of any sort without belonging to an actual engineering license credential system (since there are things like civil engineers, computer engineers, mechanical engineers, etc, in the same way you can not call yourself Esquire unless you hold a lawyer license. You can not practice law without a license, but that doesn't stop you defending yourself in a court.

For all that matters, you can call yourself an engineer to other people if you are simply making stuff yourself and not marketing yourself as a licensed one. Nobody can stop you. But you are not getting hired to build/design anything by any company that will be liable for that product.

To circle back to the story itself, Yes C# will overtake Java because C# is primarily used in game development... and cheating tools for games. Java is used by exactly one game. Minecraft. No other game out there is built in Java that has survived the constant breaking of the Java API by Oracle. C# is equally as brittle, but unlike Java, you are not required to recode your game in a newer C# unless the underlying engine (eg Unity) does.

But people should still learn C before they ever learn any other software development language because every single language in use to day either follows C syntax (Javascript, PHP) or C++ object models (Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, etc) so if you learn at the minimum C, you can pick up all other programming languages quite easily. C is the Latin to C++'s Italian and Java's French.