> Any tool that tries to enhance a low quality image or video is just going to be making up the missing data.
So there is some things that instinctively don't sound correct here.
A frame may not contain the info to enhance, maybe it's too blurry... but a series of frames can (I'm pretty sure) between them have enough info to deblur an object in the background, it really helps to know the focal length, and distance maps...
My only point is information in a video is more than the sum of the information of it's frames, it also captures delta, not just from frame to frame, but relevant frame to relevant frame. That's a fair bit to work off of.
I do agree with our general point when information is 'absent'. I disagree how much absent information is in a video which can't be reconstructed by this delta. It certainly isn't zero, or 100%.
Inventing colors from a grayscale is a good example of absent information and of where this goes awry. Deblurring/blurring operations, less so.
This is a silly perspective, inaccurate, and out of bounds framing.
Public libraries, in this instance, is curated data from all the internet, obtained through not legal means (I don't have a problem with this other than lack of attribution, being copy-left). Just to be clear.
But in answer to your incredibly leading and inaccurate framing... they are required (by their job title) to teach to those who who show up in the classroom, it's not their place to discriminate against anyone/thing (even those like itself (other robots)) that also show up in the classroom.
But you can't teach at a university using only knowledge learned from the library. you need a degree. You are free to teach at the park, where anyone can hear you. public in -> public out.
> "...I am a computer program that generates responses to your prompts based on what my training data tells me is most likely to be correct and sensible."
This is correct only for a toy mental model of what an llm is capable of.
However it gets murky once you realize that (on a per token level) the llm is capable of changing it's temperature (rng %'s on picking the next token) top_k/top_p (how many options are shown per token). Adding in that bit of control to it's own output muddies that statement, as this, in effect, renders a 'mood'/'mode' in the LLM's response. so 'correct and sensible' are no longer the correct adjectives (well... unless you consider the 'me' in that statement to be a 'reasoning agent'... the fact is we don't have good words to work with here), but 'realistic / agentic' might be more in tune.
I agree with this. And also think that we should train and select for trustworthy models. I also agree that these models may never truly be trustworthy.
AI only needs to be better than a human, which is also fallible.
But I would only accept AI note taking if it was reconciled (in a timely manner) by a human listening to the audio recording and verifying accuracy. Without that, it's an unacceptable loss of accountability. Even with that, privacy concerns are abound with frontier models.
STT local models offer different concerns, but generally are pretty good at transcribing in a quite environment.
Capitalistic pressures reduce quality of health care far too often. Everything from artificially limiting how many doctors get degrees, to pushing doctors to see more people per day from such tech. The enshittification will continue until moral improves.
Besides the reward of a more capable brain, the reduced effects/risks of dementia, the contrarian need to argue, the altruistic desire to help neighbors with difficult problems, the selfish urge to daydream... yeah, there are people for whom none of those are motivating factors.
The most compelling reason to learn to code is exactly the same reason to read lots of books (fiction or otherwise). It exercises your brain. A brain that can easily sort, parse, and understand basic logic and control flow is more resistant to propaganda and influence. Which is the same benefit a lot of reading does, but for different avenues of thinking (more worldviews exposed to -> more critical thought of each of those views -> more critical thinking in general).
If AI was a productivity boon: wouldn't a company employ the same or more employees to capture more market share at a competitive edge. Shedding employees because they are more efficient seems like shooting yourself in the foot to try and stand in the same spot in a race.
AI should have caused a job market boon: because less skilled employees would have been more hirable/useful. That this is not the case leads me to suspect that AI is an excuse to reduce employee count, but not the root cause.
There are more combinations than merely having only X, or an XY combination. And there is more fuzziness even in the Y and X expression, as you said. It's fuzzy all the way down. The tale of Binary results has always been from compression of reality: Always has been.
I do not believe it exists. If it is never, then it must not exist.
proofs I would accept:
(for Christianity)
Biblically accurate angels descend onto earth, to everyone, and submit themselves to scientific testing, which conclude they are made of something non-physical.
Divinity is proven to be a measurable and testable attribute of reality.
Reality warping magic, demonstrated to not be any sort of trick or technology, and limited to those devout to said religion.
God shows his ass to everyone, the only part of him that - according to the bible - won't make a human insane.
the basis of these proofs can be distilled down to some basic requirements:
- It must happen in 'reality' not 'in my head'.
- It must be testable, and repeatable.
- It must have no 'natural/scientific' explanation.
- It must be viewable by everyone.
That's not 'all' of the requirements, but regardless of which religion we are talking about: those are the common primitives.
Nothing I've encountered have met these standards. But if those standards of mine are met...
> Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence.
But of course that's not true. I would believe in a God with proof of their existence. I simply have not encountered such proof that hold up to my standards of proof of such an extraordinary claim.
One idea that stuck out to me was an array of giant thin solar powered spinning metal Crookes radiometers magnets in a line to make a railgun-like launcher. Materially cheap to do.
> Fiat currency isn't just a matter of belief or stories
... Then how do we, as a society, determine how much a dollar is worth?! We do use force to enforce the stories we tell about fiat. But 'believe this story about how much a dollar will buy you and how much you owe, or else we will send thugs to your house' isn't disproving the point at all.