How many fingers? 
Also a very weird face and a weird shoe on his left foot. Plus some curtains in front of a blank wall.
And some odd-shaped and misplaced loudspeaker drive units.
And only one loudspeaker is connected (though it’s not uncommon in hifi ads for untidy wiring to be omitted completely).
Chinese companies also need to get someone competent to proof-read their ads:
I’m wondering if by “soot nil” they mean “carbon neutral”?
There was an article on the Reform party’s deputy using AI to fool public in yesterday’s Guardian
The shame of all this is that many people are becoming cynical of everything said and depicted. The danger is that truth will also be disbelieved out if hand (so to speak).
Some people today are willing to believe anything as long as it aligns with their own world view. I’ve been through this with one of my brothers recently. He’s not willing to look beyond his preferred narrow sources of information or try to research any of the things he’s being fed. He seems to unquestionably accept what he’s being told. I read an interesting article about a research paper investigating this phenomenon amongst older, mainly retired people in the UK. It came to the conclusion that dissatisfied people were being radicalised in the same manner as Islamic radicalism.
I think people are dividing into the “believe everything” and “believe nothing” camps. Both are equally harmful IMO, especially if “believe everything” goes with “my social media bubble feeds me things I already agree with”.
Whatever happened to common sense?
The problem with common sense is that it is not all that common.
That went out the window long ago. Over a century back, Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of semiotics (the study of signs, symbols and their use/interpretation) argued that unlike a painting or illustration, a photograph was proof that something was ‘real’/had actually happened.
There are many other examples of philosophers not being quite up to speed on things in the real world…
Just watched this AI generated video (apologies for the ads) - hard to believe it’s from the same architecture studio as the Millau Viaduct…
Having just laboriously cleaned the crystals on just one chandelier, I am wondering who and how often said “bridge with cast-glass balustrades” will be serviced 
And how it will stand up to vandalism and bikes being crashed into ti!
We need to stop calling it AI and call it what it is, AS
I would think it better called Artificial Reasoning but probably too late in the game
Artificial blovation would be more accurate.
A large language model is essentially just a statistical prediction of the next word in a conversation based on the immediately preceding state of inputs and outputs. Admittedly the fact that it has a database of half** the internet behind means that it can come across as quite learned.
**: This is important - about half the content online is now AI generated and the evidence is that models degrade quickly if fed their own output, or that of other AI systems. Sifting out AI content in training data (I have no doubt this will be done using AI) will become more and more important.
I worry about the effect on critical reasoning though - there will be a natural temptation to use AI as a shortcut and not our own brains. I wonder if we will ultimately decode to ban “thinking” machnes à la Dune.
For the moment (it may only be a short one) AI is very much the idiot savant.
I think it’s even more apparent in the scopic realm where so much AI generated material is skimmed from cheesy fantasy/SF illustrations.
Neither of these are AI, just staged
The latter shows photography can still be very revealing
One heavy headed true king and one idiot with verbal diarrhea
Suspect British royals long ago mastered the technique of remaining upright whilst falling asleep in public
Why are the wives necessary in these pictures?
Though that’s a very, very well cut suit Mrs Trump is wearing.
