I suppose that’s probably tied for the most threatening thing against ICE he’s seen, but that’s because nothing particularly threatening has been done at all. So, technically the truth?

Right, that Steam Deck and myriad of PC handhelds I think is why I don’t consider the Switch quite so uniquely gimmicky… It’s a recognition that normal controller games can be played in a ‘tablet’ with better controls more than a particularly unique, possibly patent protected thing like the wiimotes, or the Wii-U tablet+main display, or the DS dual screens…

In short, if they made their low-spec games ported to PC it’s quite likely to be a nice additional revenue stream without having to compromise the game to be workable on PC. If the Wii-Motes were still a big thing, then Nintendo would have a hard time trying to make PC ports without screwing up their console.

Like with the Wii, I’d be with you and the Wii motes were super gimmicky. Also if the Wii u had panned out.

But the switch is not particularly uniquely gimmicky. Pretty conventional controls, with maybe the residual gimmick of those NFC figures…

Those metrics aren’t any more trustworthy than their own subjective word anyway. If they wanted to say they took more time then they could delay at their whim anyway. If they said their production costs increased, then again, they could spend the money to fit the narrative. On those particular points objective evidence is so susceptible to being gamed that it isn’t really more valuable than their subjective reporting.

Numbers of subscribers/views could be a bit more informative, but then people inclined to disbelieve would claim it’s because of any number of other reasons not because of AI slop.

Killing in this case sounds like the content is becoming harder and harder to create, which they lay out the subjective case for, but that wouldn’t be exactly something they could use figures to present, since it’s so subjective.

The one point they might have been able to show with numbers would be the emergence of AI slop ‘infotainment animations’ diluting the audience, but that wasn’t exactly the biggest point of the video and it might be a bit early to be able to demonstrate statistically credible evidence on that one.

Also, presuming they are sincere and put in all that effort, they are competing with other sources that have no such discipline and they are able to flood the field and grab eyeballs faster than they could.

It’s so fun when it’s so specific about some detail with casual confidence that is based on absolutely nothing at all. I know ultimately it’s architecture is more akin to a predictive word generator, but it seems so much better.

Saw a clear demonstration and it is wild that the output is consistent, but at least in the model I saw being run, every word is generated without it having considered what the word after would be or what the general concept it is going for. For a human one has to already know the concept before he/she starts putting words to it, but at least the models I’ve seen explained with detail, it manages to assemble it word by word without knowing where it is trying to go in advance.

People who believe the administration and drop Tylenol for Motrin, Kenvue is happy either way.

Also they continue to own the brand that is demonized by the administration that some people will stick with precisely because this administration demonized it.

Also reap a bump of people stockpiling because they think the government might take it away.

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King Louis-Antoine lasted about 20 minutes.

Conservative voices are being silenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA

I think you need to clarify… Is it because right wing comedy is just so good that they want to participate, or that right wing comedy is so terrible it’s a ripe opportunity to be a gigantic fish in a small crappy pond?

Oh man, I remember seeing things go from burned in subs to sub tracks with all kinds of nice functional markup and managed font color schemes and such to… Slapping white text with no border/shadow in the bottom middle of the video unconditionally without formatting…

Kind of miss how much effort went into fan subs, with notes explaining things that didn’t exactly translate without context…

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Well they couldn’t do that, they could only say stuff that wouldn’t upset Saudi Arabia.

Thing is both statements can be true.

Used appropriately and in the right context, LLMs can accelerate some select work.

But the hype level is ‘human replacement is here (or imminent, depending on if the company thinks the audience is willing to believe yet or not)’. Recently Anthropic suggested someone could just type ‘make a slack clone’ and it’ll all be done and perfect.

Mad Maze…

I will concur with the whole ‘llm keeps suggesting to reinvent the wheel’

And poorly. Not only did it not use a pretty basic standard library to do something, it’s implementation is generally crap. For example it offered up a solution that was hard coded to IPv4, and the context was very ipv6 heavy

A VP and his taking head sycophants at my work has not shut up about it. They went through some trouble to automatically measure employee use of the AI and made it a performance measure. So now we have it generate code so we don’t get fired and mostly throw it away.

I thought that as well and got some code from someone that left the company and asked it to comment it.

It did the obvious “x= 5 // assign 5 to x” crap comments and then it got to the actually confusing part and just skipped that mess entirely…