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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I do like it also, but notice how they try to hide most of these strange effects in their demo video. They’re trying to pass it off as a playable minecraft. Anything interesting about the technology is a defect to these people.

    They also claim this is “the first playable AI-generated game” when the exact same sort of thing already existed in 2022 (and it looked a lot more efficient and haunted): https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/ Maybe it doesn’t count if you call it “Neural network” instead of “AI”.

    • JFranek@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      That article gave me a whiplash. First part: pretty cool. Second part: deeply questionable.

      For example these two paragraphs from sections ‘problem with code’ and ‘magic of data’:

      “Modular and interpretable code” sounds great until you are staring at 100 modules with 100,000 lines of code each and someone is asking you to interpret it.

      Regardless of how complicated your program’s behavior is, if you write it as a neural network, the program remains interpretable. To know what your neural network actually does, just read the dataset

      Well, “just read the dataset bro” sound great sounds great until you are staring at a dataset with 100 000 examples and someone is asking you to interpret it.

    • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      11 hours ago

      yeah, that “most of the internet will be Al-generated” nonsense is tanking my ability to take them as domain experts seriously.

      still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples