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Comment Re: Will it really matter? (Score 1) 47

by hobbes75 (#65753802) Attached to: Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?

What AI cannot do by itself:
- Create the game I have in mind

It’s the same with the picture or animation you have in mind. As a creative person you see it as a limitation or even as a showstopper for the technology that it cannot do the work exactly as you imagine, but for the manager/ceo/customer of the creative service, it’s not that, they either don’t have the exact image/game/etc in mind or they won’t get it exactly as they imagined anyway. They come with their description and get what the artists or programmers give them, then they maybe iterate a few times with more details. For them, AI and creative person is functionally very similar whereas the result of the AI generation is often far from what the creative person had in mind.

Submission + - Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants (science.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Whether they're in mortal peril or just suffering from indigestion, infants across the animal kingdom cry out to tell their parents they need help. Unfortunately for them, the parents aren't the only ones attuned to the cries of their vulnerable young. Nile crocodiles are uniquely sensitive to the wails of distressed primate babies, according to a new study—and the more anxious the cry, the more interested the crocs become.

Indeed, according to the research, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the reptiles are even better at identifying the emotional cues hidden in the wails of babies than we are—perhaps because they’ve evolved to home in on helpless prey.

“Oh, what a pity yum, yum!” jokes Stephan Reber, a cognitive zoologist at Lund University who was not involved in the study. On a more serious note, he says, the work raises the possibility that emotion may be communicated across species lines in more ways than scientists thought. “If crocs can do it, it probably means that many, many more animals can do it.”

Comment Re:Because assholes exploit loopholes (Score 1) 37

by hobbes75 (#60545352) Attached to: Google To Increase Push for Apps To Give Cut of In-App Purchases

If my product fills one of a thousand shelfs in a store and there is physical logistics involved, a 30% cut seems well deserved. Now if the online store says my software will be one of a thousand or so, maybe 15%-20% cut seems fair (no significant logistics and floorsspace cost). But if it is one in a million or more... How can anybody justify more than 5% if everything is very easy to scale, maybe there is some review cost and payment processing. They can offer to promote it for some additional percents, but that cost should only go to the top x%

Submission + - The Proton Just got smaller (nature.com) 1

Submitted by inflame
inflame writes: A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."'

Would this indicate new physics if proven?

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