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Saturday, July 1, 2023 - 22:39

Over a century ago, it was thought that the horseless carriage (automobile) would leave a mass of unemployed and starving: blacksmiths, buggy drivers, horse groomers, buggy-whip makers, and everybody else involved in the ecosystem of raising horses for use as draft animals. What happened? Blacksmiths became auto mechanics, and we ended up needing more people to do even more lucrative jobs, like all the people who build automobiles, build parts for automobiles, mine the minerals used, drill, refine, market and sell petroleum.

Television was going to kill radio. It's still operating, even with streaming services.

Automatic elevators were going to put elevator operators out of work and leave them to starve. Only we need more people to handle the construction, maintenance, and repair of elevators. 

The invention of the spreadsheet program was thought would eliminate bookkeepers. Nope, just made it possible for less skilled people to be able to do bookkeeping and keeping records.

So, anyway, the people who think new technology will put people out of work and leave them unemployed have always been wrong, The Internet was expected to make librarians superfluous. Libraries now are even more relevant as they provide free computer usage and Internet access, in addiio to books and reference materials.

AI-created art is simply another tool. It's not going to get rid of artists, except maybe low-talent and incompetent ones. Because even if you can get an AI program to generate a piece of art, it takes skill to get the query right. Consider this: is knowing how to construct a query to a search engine trivial, or is it actually a learned skill? Just like anyone can construct a simple query to a search engine, getting a set of results that fits a specific need is something that takes training to do properly. The same thing is true of AI art creation tools: it's only as good as (1) the data it was trained on, and (2) the quality and precision of the query used to return a result.

 

Paul Robinson

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 07:28

A full fille speaking a million numbers, not only taking a huge time would be horribly repetitive.  Let's say that it takes about a million seconds to read all the numbers - probably more but let's use that as a start - which would require 278 hours.  At an average of about 1 megabyte per minute for MP3 compression, it would also require 16.6667 gigabytes.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 15:32

These are PNG images

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 03:45

Yes, actually you could get any number from 1 to one billion minus 1.

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 03:45

Yes, actually you could get any number from 1 to one billion minus 1.

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 03:41

Tent3 is the same, mostly brown with a dark orange flag

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 03:29

It's done in this color to look similar to a standard tent like one would buy in a sporting goods store, they tend to be in a greenish shade like this, or a khaki green, or a brown.

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 03:28

It's done in this color to look similar to a standard tent like one would buy in a sporting goods store, they tend to be in a greenish shade like this, or a khaki green, or a brown.