They lent me a tent, but the one they sent had been bent. I wept, but at least it hadn’t been lost in the mail. I’m sure they never meant any harm.

At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.

Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.

Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.

You could just buy the book second-hand. Authors don’t get any of that money, and you’ll be able to get it for much cheaper than new.

In the UK, certainly. It’s not the library’s job to censor what the borrowers want to read, even if it’s David Icke.

It’s just like any big technological breakthrough. Some people will lose their jobs, jobs that don’t currently exist will be created, and while it’ll create acute problems for some people, the average quality of life will go up. Some people will use it for good things, some people will use it for bad things.

I’m a tech guy, I like it a lot. Before COVID, I used to teach software dev, including neural networks, so seeing this stuff gradually reach the point it has now has been incredible.

That said, at the moment, it’s being put into all kinds of use-cases that don’t need it. I think that’s more harmful than not. There’s no need for Copilot in Notepad.

We have numerous AI tools where I work, but it hasn’t cost anyone their job - they just make life easier for the people who use them. I think too many companies see it as a way to reduce overheads instead of increasing output capability, and all this does is create a negative sentiment towards AI.

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Very nice. Very nice.

It’s because there’s a disproportionate number of bad-faith actors starting threads in this community.

Even though there’s no stupid questions, it turns out that there are many terrible people.

True, but not “one pun intended”, which is the punchline here.

It’s all fine - I was just pointing out why I prefer the other version. Yours is good too.

I think it might have the edge, though, because “no pun intended” is an actual phrase people use…

Before you post your request, have a look here:

https://www.sharetribe.com/

It’s a platform for setting up your own custom marketplace, which is exactly what you’re describing. It’s a no-code solution and pretty customisable.

At the best, it might give you an immediate solution to your needs. At worst, it’ll give you a starting point to explain to your dev what you want. Win/win.

In case you’re wondering why you’re getting so many downvotes, my guess is that it’s because you’ve used the letters “AI” in your title. There seems to be a bunch of folk here who will downvote anything even remotely related to AI, apparently without even reading the posts.

As a developer, it looks clear enough to me, but I’d suggest two changes.

“Status updates” - You don’t say who you want to be able to view the status of a posting.

“Bonus if you can connect it to my Wave account…” - probably better to phrase it “Ideally it would connect to my Wave account…”. You’re listing requirements, after all.

Also, you might need to consider adding an admin page where you can manage accounts, see all jobs listed, etc. although the rest of the post is high-level, so maybe it’s something to bring up in the discussions.

Finally, I’m sure you realised this already, but the last lines of the AI response are for you, and not part of the text itself.

Come on, that’s not true. We just want to “re-educate” you guys

Human artists train using other artists work. Every avenue of human endeavour is based on what came before.

My own default style shares similarities with Barbara Canepa and Rumikp Takahashi. Why? Because, as a teen, I used to copy their stuff, trying to “unlock” the parts of it that I like.

If I was to directly copy an image, and say it was my own, then that crosses over into stealing. But that’s not what has happened here. And unless you get very specific with the prompts, it’s not likely to happen.

Shocking truth:

Humans can make all art made by AI.

Humans can make all calculations made by computers.

People use tools to achieve their goals more efficiently. It’s the way it always has been. It doesn’t mean there’s no value attached to it.

Incidentally, for all of the “this is AI” brigade, what are you picking up on? I’m not picking up on any of the classic tells. Aside from the closed fists in the first and last image, where I’d personally go for an open hand, I don’t see anything obviously amiss.

Can personally attest to Denmark having loads of English speakers.

I encountered exactly one person in my travels there who did not speak fluent English.

I’d learned a little, so I tried to use Danish to order things, ask directions etc, and everyone replied in perfect English.

TIL

I’ll admit, I thought “I’m sure I’d have heard that before if it was true”, but it appears to be the case! It’s apparently based on a gesture Leonard Nimoy saw during a blessing as a boy.

I guess it’s like the ICXC hand shape that vicars and priests use in Christianity.

These religious leaders and their hand gestures…

Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” definitely threw one of these 🖖

True, but it’s happened twice in the last six presidential elections. The fact that the system allows it at all is problematic, but it’s unfortunately becoming more common, not less.

That’s exactly why so many countries around the world roll their eyes when America bangs on so much about democracy.

It’s a marketing thing. Look around the world. Find any country with the word “Democratic” in the name, and odds are you’ll find a poor excuse for a democracy.

The actual democracies in the world don’t feel compelled to keep repeating the fact.

The reality is that America is only really a democracy in the loosest sense of the world. All you need to do is look at how often the wealthiest candidate wins to see that it’s true. Or how often the person with the most votes loses. Or how unregulated lobbying actually is. Or the insane amount of power the President actually has. The power doesn’t lie with the people - it lies with the super-rich.

Sorry if that came off as really negative! America has a lot of good stuff going for it, but its implementation of democracy is not one.