It's not just Apple integrating AI into the hardware, Microsoft has been part of a big push to "AI PCs" with a certain minimum capabilities (and I'm sure their partners don't mind selling new gear) and the copilot button on keyboards, and certain android models have the processors and memory capacities specifically for running AI
It's honestly so scary because Sam Altman and his ilk would gladly replace all teachers with LLM's right now, because it makes their lines go up, doesn't matter to them that would result in a generation of dumb people in like 10 years. Honestly would just create more LLM users for them to sell to so its a win win I guess, but it completely fucks up our world.
I just bought the whole set
and just did chapter one, will probably not keep up with doing all the assignments but I indend to at least skim them and get a rough feel to where I can find stuff if I ever need it.
If I read something and then remember it 5 years later because it becomes relevant, I want to be able to find it. It's not even that I will look at it, I just want to have the option if I want to.
It's interesting but I wish I could turn it off. would be nice to have a button "dub this for me" instead of being forced to have all the content translated into 1 language, which is infuriating if you understand multiple.
Edit: aha you can switch back to the original audio track
According to the people gunning for it seems to be mostly about controlling what content Americans can see in order to keep public opinions in line with foreign policy goals. (i.e. pro Israel)
>While data security issues are paramount, less often discussed is TikTok’s power to radically distort the world-picture that America’s young people encounter. Israel’s unfolding war with Hamas is a crucial test case. According to one poll, 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believe that Hamas’s murder of civilians was justified—a statistic notably different from other age cohorts. Analysts have attributed this disparity to the ubiquity of anti-Israel content on TikTok, where most young internet users get their information about the world
I think there's an important distinction between "keeping public opinions [pro Israel]," as you claim, and discouraging the dissemination of content that radicalizes (for lack of a better word) viewers enough to justify and support the murder of innocent civilians by a terrorist organization, as the Senator claims.
I feel a lot of people have compare TikTok that they have used for countless of hours and where the algorithm has zero'd in in their preferences to a more vanilla YT Shorts. I used shorts for a few months heavily, and pretty much every video was in some way relevant to my interests (which is also why I don't consume short form video anymore, it's waaaay to addictive).
It's so impressive, similarly I also love the game Pentiment by Obsidian, some incredibly complex branching conversations in there. I recently watched a video where the game director Josh Sawyer (of fallout new vegas fame) walks through some conversations in Obsidians own dialog software.
Can also wholeheartedly endorse Alpha Protocol, also by Obsidian. A must play for anyone who feels RPGs are more than a few skill trees and binary choices, the way AP manages to interweave a massive complex conversations tree with the way players handle the action sequences is frankly second to none.
To quote Ben Yahtzee Croshaws review[0] from back then:
“For once, this is a game that claims that "every action has consequences" and actually means a consequence more significant than a character maybe wearing a different hat. For example, although the hub-based mission system lets you do the operations in any order, during the one I chose to do last, an informant mentioned the previous operations I'd completed in conversation. "Fuck", I said, "this game's just showing off now." So I immediately became an aggressive ponce and slammed his head into a desk. After which, there was more security in my next mission because the informant went crying to his big brother or something.”
Alpha Protocol is a very flawed if intriguing game. The player needs to understand that it's more RPG than Metal Gear Solid. If you invest all your points into stealth, you can perform superhuman feats of cloaking by the end of the game. By the same token, however, you can perfectly line up a headshot on your aiming reticle and still miss, because the backend dice-roll said you missed.
With that said, I agree, the dialogue choices and "consequences" blew away everything else in the genre. In that sense, it felt like it better captured the spirit of the original Deus Ex over even its spiritual successor, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
At the end of the first mission in Alpha Protocol, you confront a terrorist, and can choose to either kill him or let him go. If you let him go, he becomes a contact that you can call upon in later points of the game. He might give you information, assist on a mission, etc. It has a real payoff for keeping him alive.
In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you are also confronted with a terrorist at the end of the first mission, and can decide to kill him or spare him. If you decide to spare him, he shows up in an alley later in the game and...gives you some money. That's it.
DE:HR was the far more polished game, overall, but it didn't understand "consequences" very well.
Yeah I love Alpha Protocol, did you see the remaster they put out (DRM free!) on GoG last year, for me it was honestly one of the most exciting things that happened in gaming last year.
Honestly the first time I ever bought a game right on release day, cause I knew of the quality and wanted to support both GoG and hopefully in a small way signal to the industry that I want more of this in gaming.
Coincidentally, I just got Pentiment, and I've spent the entire weekend on it. I'm not really a gamer, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. The art is gorgeous.
It's not much of a "game"... which is fine with me, because I'm not much of a gamer.
When I'm done I may go try Disco Elysium again. I tried once before, and got myself to an ending very, very quickly -- one that my friend had no idea was even an option.
I would also recommend Night in the Woods, it was a big inspiration for the 'gameplay' of Pentiment. mostly just walking through a world, talking to people with some minor minigames thrown in.
We all do know that doctors do have to go through a whole residency phase in their training where they spend a lot of time with sick people and work under the supervision of more experienced doctors, gaining personal experience with the field. I think first-hand experience matters quite a bit, actually.
You just confirmed that you don't need to be a powerful black woman to program an AI bot pretending to be one, you can be a green Martian dwarf with the right skills and knowledge. Residency brings knowledge about sick people, being sick is not a requirement.
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