I doubt it. Other forms of AI could be useful, but generative AI? I doubt it.

And tbh even deep learning through neural networks doesn’t seem to be making the leaps we’d hoped for. AoE4 promised, prior to release, a machine learning–based AI would be delivered down the line. It’s now almost 3 years since release and we haven’t heard a thing about it.

Maybe eventually we’ll be able to easily train a machine learning algorithm to play any game at a wide variety of skill levels (or at a very high level, if not at customisable levels), but it doesn’t seem like it’s any time soon.

While I still maintain my stance that anyone who votes 3rd party in a FPTP election is a moron, this does seem unfair.

The challenge was brought by Republicans, but it’s a challenge based on Libertarian Party rules of how they choose who to nominate. The only people who should have standing are Libertarian Party members.

If they had put in their nomination forms late or made some other error with the process of doing the nomination, then it would be fair for Republicans or Democrats or independent voters to challenge to get them removed. But an internal matter that the article says was completely uncontroversial internally should not be brought by outsiders.

I’m confused, why do you think “stop providing aid to assist in genocide” is the take of a tanky?

See also: Born Sexy Yesterday

Speak for yourself

Based on this website at its ugliest the UK had –2.3 Helens

This reminds me of moon landing deniers. Like, y’all don’t think that America’s greatest enemy of the time, the Soviet Union, with all of their resources, wouldn’t have been denying the US’s claim to having landed on the moon if there were any credible evidence that it hadn’t actually happened?

She’s not out there stabbing babies

Rowling is using her considerable clout to drum up hatred of trans people. She might not be wielding the bat, but she helps embolden those who do. It’s essentially stochastic terrorism. To my knowledge, Card has not gone nearly as far off the deep end in this respect.

in JK’s mind she is defending women from men

You could have made this claim once, and it been believable.

Had Rowling made even one…just one comment about the literal child rapist (whose victim was a 12-year-old girl) that competed at this Olympics…you might have been able to keep believing this.

But her absolute silence about an issue where an actual girl was traumatised by the actions of an actual man, and insistence on going to war against a woman who she’s pretending is a man instead, completely removes any semblance of doubt there. Her goal is to delegitimise trans women. That’s not just an instrumental goal, it is the terminal goal: the cruelty is the entire point.

I know you’re being flippant and it definitely is a real issue, but my first reaction was the same. I’ve played plenty of games with some sexual content in them, but never one with sexual violence other than implied, and usually even the consensual scenes were fade to black, or close to fading to black. I was a little surprised to hear that this is going on.

Aoe2 is a modern game. And it’s the only modern game. Everything else is a distraction.

Crinkle-cut chips and potato gems? Cmon you need more than just two ingredients to make a salad. Give us wedges and thin-cut chips too, at least.

Look, I’m a Greens voter here in Australia. But the fact of the matter is that in America, supporting the Green Party is helping Trump, whether you intend that or not.

It’s not quite accurate to say that a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump, but mathematically it might as well be the same as not voting at all. And thus encouraging people not to vote is equivalent to encouraging voter suppression—not necessarily from an ethical standpoint, but from the perspective of the end result it creates. Your intent doesn’t really matter.

First Past the Post is a fundamentally undemocratic system, and improving it in literally any way you can should be the number one top priority for any American who cares about democracy. But until that change is effected, anyone with half a brain has to vote for a major party. And that means if you have both half a brain and an ounce of morals, you vote Democrat.

While I can see that any vote for Stein is a vote for Trump

It’s not quite true. More accurate is that a vote for a third party is the same as not voting at all.

Tell me, when was the last time you went to a concert?

Because you should know, it’s very common for someone to talk a little before the concert or before the piece about the piece itself, what inspired it, how it fits into the programme, etc.

That’s what he did here. He explained what inspired the writing of this piece. No different to a conductor explaining that Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony was dedicated to the city of Leningrad, which at the time it was premiered was being besieged by the Nazis. Or explaining how his 9th Symphony was a deliberate mockery of earlier composers’ grand 9th symphonies, as a way to subvert expectations placed on him by Stalin’s regime. Or how Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony was written at first in honour of Napoleon, and then later changed to “celebrate the memory of a great man” after Napoleon went against Beethoven’s republican idealism and crowned himself emperor.

Music has always been political, and in modern times no concert is complete without at least some discussion about the context in which the piece was written. That should be as true for a piece written to commemorate victims of a modern-day war as it is for mid-20th century or early 19th century pieces.

I’ve never seen any of his videos, but from what I’ve heard he’s most famous for big charitable stuff, including “#TeamSeas” and things where he gives a heap of money to viewers/randoms with medical bills or something like that.

Obviously, the cleanup project from TeamSeas was actually basically a scam, but it’s not clear how much Mr Beast knew that. Or even, frankly, how much the person behind the cleanup project knew it couldn’t work; whether he was hopelessly naive or wilfully pretending the criticism didn’t exist. And individual philanthropy is a highly inefficient use of money in terms of aid, that might be popular because it has a much higher benefit to the donor (in terms of social credit and thus in terms of ad revenue on YouTube) than working with efficient charities. So from someone paying attention, criticism of him and his intentions could have come earlier, but it was always easy to brush off for those going into it wanting to trust him, presumably because he’s entertaining and comes across as likeable on camera.

They have indeed made a statement of fact. But to the best of my knowledge it’s not one that’s got any definite controlling precedent in law.

You are still not permitted to, for example, repost it elsewhere without the copyright holder’s permission

That’s the thing. It’s not clear that an LLM does “repost it elsewhere”. As the OP said, the model itself is basically just a mathematical construct that can’t really be turned back into the original work, which is possibly a sign that it’s not a derivative work, but a transformative one, which is much more likely to be given Fair Use protection. Though Fair Use is always a question mark and you never really know if a use is Fair without going to court.

You could be right here. Or OP could. As far as I’m concerned anyone claiming to know either way is talking out of their arse.

Creative Commons would not actually help here. Even the most permissive licence, CC-BY, requires attribution. If using material for training material requires a copyright licence (which is certainly not a settled question of law), CC would likely be just the same as all rights reserved.

(There’s also CC-0, but that’s basically public domain, or as near to it as an artist is legally allowed to do in their locale. So it’s basically not a Creative Commons licence.)

Just fyi the term is “copyrighted”, not “copywrited”. Copyright is about the right to copy, not anything about writing.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/30/netherlands-child-rapist-olympics-steven-van-de-velde