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SeedNotYetSprouted

Check the Robots and AI video thread.
Sep 28 2020 05:41 PM

starspawn0

One can also make everything adaptive, so that if you don't like the image it generates, the BCI can detect Error-Related-Fields associated with your disappointment, and then made immediate corrections, until you are satisfied. This might all happen in just seconds.
Sep 26 2020 06:38 PM

TheAughat

I see. I guess then in the shorter term, animators will still use this for video production, but most people wont. Animators will use image production to aid with video, since after all, thinking up thousands of images will be easier, faster, and more efficient than drawing them out. As AI is also advancing on the side, combined with brain data input, frame interpolation could also get much better, further easing out the pipeline of video production. So animators and people with more patience...
Sep 26 2020 10:45 PM

TheAughat

I wonder how much controversy the usage of this tech will create for artists who are already well established--like popular manga artists. People already perceive tech-based upgrades as "bad" and "unnatural". It is no secret how badly people perceive singers who use autotune, calling them fakes and saying they're not real artists. There will probably be simultaneous pushback against this software, while widespread adoption of it also occurs. Interesting times up ahead.
Sep 26 2020 10:46 PM

TranscendingGod

Knowing that other life exists in the universe is a point of discontinuity for our society. It should or shall completely change the mindset of every person on this planet.
Sep 15 2020 03:56 AM

Cyber_Rebel

Didn't old science fiction authors use to write about life within the clouds of Venus? Pretty fitting considering. At least this will prove we definitely aren't the only sad excuse out there, as even small traces of life within our own back yard means a universe full of life on the whole.
Sep 15 2020 05:40 AM

wjfox

Let's remember that Venus may once have looked like this, so these microbes (if they exist) could be a leftover remnant of ancient life:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-climate-modeling-suggests-venus-may-have-been-habitable
Sep 15 2020 02:05 PM

Erowind

That would make 2020 feel a lot better
Sep 14 2020 06:29 AM

Raklian

Maybe the Pioneer and Venera missions started life there by bacteria accidentally hijacking a ride there. O_o
Sep 14 2020 03:28 PM

Maximus

^Well in that case, if we took were to retrieve a sample, we could compare see if the DNA matches any microbe found on Earth. The probe would need an onboard sequencer though, since we don't want to risk contaminating Earth.
Sep 14 2020 04:36 PM

Raklian

It's a damned good thing only one system of the two became a hurricane.
Aug 26 2020 09:19 PM

Yuli Ban

Actually, Marco became a hurricane too. It just got eviscerated by sheer.
Aug 26 2020 10:02 PM

Yuli Ban

Blah, I meant shear.
@TG: The wind shear that murdered Marco would do absolutely nothing to Laura now. The only thing that's going to weaken it is land interaction.
Aug 27 2020 12:58 AM

Raklian

Just a normal day in a global warmed world.
Aug 21 2020 10:07 PM

Yuli Ban

If it was a nuke as conspiracy theorists keep saying (even an underground nuke), they'd have been vaporized by million-degree heat
Aug 20 2020 05:20 PM

TranscendingGod

Yeah, I agree that Musk might beat Bezos to the punch. Tesla is still nascent and if SpaceX were to ever go public it'd probably propel Musk to the stratosphere.
Aug 13 2020 02:26 PM

Raklian

Yeah, I agree. Also, we must assume Bernie Sanders won't achieve his tax proposal which involves taking a chuck out of the richest Americans' net worth.
Aug 13 2020 04:15 PM

Erowind

Microsoft committed tax fraud then changed the law in order to not pay https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher
Aug 13 2020 08:57 PM

wjfox

According to one estimate, the explosion had a TNT equivalent of 3kt. For comparison, Hiroshima had a yield of 15kt.
Aug 05 2020 07:17 AM

wjfox

Tianjin was 336 tons TNT equivalent for the actual explosion, 21 tons for the seismic shockwave produced.
(source: Wikipedia)
Aug 05 2020 07:18 AM

Outlook

Thank god Beirut is largely made of of stone and concrete and not wood.
Aug 05 2020 10:56 AM

wjfox

https://i.imgur.com/YMTAhhU.jpg
Jul 30 2020 02:56 PM

starspawn0

Cain was too minor of a player, and had been sidelined for years following the election, for Trump to have seen his death as a threat to him personally. More likely, the bad economic news (GDP fell nearly 33% last quarter) is to blame.
Jul 30 2020 03:36 PM

Raklian

^ The human brain is only capable of perceiving a limited set of geometric shapes and planes, or whatnot. Consciousness in a higher dimension can mean a geometric shape we can't make sense of.
Jul 22 2020 12:50 PM

Raklian

While we can't make sense of it, we're still perceiving it somehow, hence the struggle to describe or explain it.
Jul 22 2020 12:52 PM

Raklian

This partially explains why each one of us has its own discrete experience of consciousness. The lower dimensions give us a way to experience a higher dimension from different perspectives.
Jul 22 2020 01:02 PM