They can assemble impressive stuff at a rapid speed but are incapable of completely novel “ideas” - everything that they output is built from a statistical model of existing data.

You just described basically 99.999% of humans as well. If you are arguing for general human intelligence, I’m on board. If you are trying to say humans are somehow different than AI, you have NFC what you are doing.

Because you are at a disadvantage against those that do? I guess it depends on how definition of “required” and I feel like the context dictates the definition of “required” to be “required to be competitive.”

Job listings often list unrealistic or impossible qualifications (such as 10 years experience in a programming language that’s only existed for 6 years, most famously), overblown or unrealistically wide scope (must be expert in Linux, Windows, Cobol, C++, Atari, and to do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs), etc…

So to actually get a job you may be perfectly qualified for, it’s requires lying. The trick is knowing what’s bullshit on the job listing and what’s important, and if you are qualified for a particular position, you should know what parts are bullshit. Lying in that instance seems fine to me.

First off all, yes they can for all practical purposes. Or, alternately, neither can humans. So the point is academic. There is little difference between the end result from an AI and a human taken at random.

Secondly, LLMs aren’t really what people are talking about when they talk about AI art.

People like that surely do see it, they just deny it publicly because they feel threatened by the technology.

No person with even a basic education can legitimately come to another conclusion and be honest. The only way I can see this happening legitimately is to not understand even the basics of how AI art works. Like, not even the first thing about it.

Computers can create the equivalent of cave drawings without models as well.

This is not good advice for poorly insulated houses, which most are that live in temperate climates. The sun will heat up the house almost immediately, making it an oven.

Sugar. People don’t realize how bad it is for you and how addictive it is.

Order some Huel before you go. Just add water and you are good.

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An Apple II+ was my first Apple product. My Apple ][GS was the best.

It all went down hill from there into the dumpster.

What do you think human artists do, exactly? You think they just learn to create art in a vacuum? It just magically appears?

You absolutely can make a general statement. Humans don’t make original content if you don’t think AIs do. The process is basically the same. A human learns to make art, and specific styles, and then produces something from that library of training. An AI does the same thing.

People saying an AI doesn’t create art from a human prompt don’t understand how humans work.

At least at our institution, the code to track and manage incoming and outgoing wires was so old that it ran on at least 4 layers of emulation. Of course, not a single person knew how to maintain it (and this is a billion dollar financial institution).

But after a wire is sent, especially to smaller, non-us banks, it can literally be received via teletype or fax with relevant account information and recorded by hand at the receiving bank.

If you send to the wrong route or account in that instance, it basically disappears for you and you need to contact the receiving bank, which sometimes uses and intermediary bank,. If that’s the case, you need to find the intermediary bank and find the exact person who wrote it down, who then can find, hopefully, what account the money went to and fix the problem. This does not work 100% of the time.

It’s ludicrously analog and prone to errors and it’s amazing it works at all.

I get to invoke and tease people about one of thier biggest fears that terrify them and they pay me to do it.

I’ve only had two people back out on me. After they make it through they are always so happy they conquered it, it’s awesome watching the process from start to finish.

I also sometimes remember that my job feels routine to me and I do it without thinking most it the time but it’s a crippling fear for most people and I do it 5 to 15 times a day on a tropical island without a second thought.

I used to be a senior system analyst at a major financial institution. You are so right.

The wiring money system is so rickety it’s amazing it functions at all. Zero accountability.

I have about 140TB of stuff and ever growing. I have a second server that I back everything up to off site, so if you count the duplicate data, it’s 280 TB.

They don’t inhale. You can usually tell the real smokers from the ones who don’t smoke if you watch the exhale.

If it all comes out in one puff, they aren’t smoking, just holding it in their mouth.

If it comes out in a long stream or through thier nose, then they are likely a real smoker.