Dan Shive
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I'm sure you're wondering... - www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder...

"...What we're going to do with all these watermelons!"
"Smash them open on the beach while blindfolded?"
"How did you know?!"
#egscomics #webcomics
Reposted by Dan Shive
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One might recall Tedd said "agents" before... - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...

Actually, it really was just Bishop who showed up. She's so tall, you see, that she was mistaken for two agents, and—ACK I'M SORRY DON'T KICK ME WITH YOUR LONG LEGS
#egscomics #webcomics
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If we’re being real, though, 99% of what’s in holodecks has to be generated by AI. You don’t get a program that can just do whatever on the fly like that without most of the legwork being done by the computer.
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Headline: “ChatGPT Fakes Accomplishments, Might Be Trash”

In all seriousness, it’s less a matter of what would happen, and what someone worries might happen. I think they’d try to avoid certain press even if it might be unnecessary.
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It’s just something it’s said to have done, along with passing other notable tests. I haven’t those specifics for you.
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Though it IS worth noting ChatGPT can search the net.

I doubt they’d have left that on for a test like that (not for ethical reasons, but for potential “shareholders go grrr if caught” reasons), but still.
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I say comparable, but not literally. ChatGPT presumably did not have internet access at the time beyond its own servers.

Given that it effectively ate the internet—which would definitely include SAT prep—however, I think comparable to an open book / internet test is fair.
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That is why I said comparable to and not literally. It essentially has SAT prep, if not actual answers, crammed into its systems.
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I’m sure you’re right for plenty of people, but I imagine there are those involved who believe their own hype (especially if not involved with the actual tech end of things).
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If you saw this comic numbered "59-2" briefly, that was a mistake on my part (I numbered it 59, system auto-set to 59-2 to avoid conflict with existing 59). I redid it as 60.

I don't expect many to have encountered that, but in case anyone did, that's what happened.
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I'LL never tell!

I mean, obviously, I will tell, but I have to be a tease about it for a while, don't I.
danshive.bsky.social
One might recall Tedd said "agents" before... - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...

Actually, it really was just Bishop who showed up. She's so tall, you see, that she was mistaken for two agents, and—ACK I'M SORRY DON'T KICK ME WITH YOUR LONG LEGS
#egscomics #webcomics
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A bit more to do left on the comic, but not a ton.
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Is it actually fair to say that "AI" has passed the SAT?

I say this because it feels more comparable to a human being able to take such tests with the internet at their disposal.

It's a technological achievement of a sort, but it's presented in a way that feels disingenuous to me.
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I want to revisit One Punch Man season one.

As much as I'm certain the animation was genuinely good—I don't expect to go back and think "that's bad, actually"—I think there's a degree to which I might have rose tinted glasses for just how good.

Like S-Tier instead of Super Ultra Deluxe S-Tier 🤷‍♀️
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(Specifically because it was doing it with a song, and it was automatic.)

(As a potential accessibility feature, it might be fine. I don't have all the details.)
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Without my asking for it, YouTube selected autodub audio for an anime opening, turning song into lifeless spoken words.

This was corrected by selecting the gear icon and setting the audiotrack to Japanese, but ye gods, it was trash.
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Goku is his own Worf.

“We’ve gotta show the new guy’s tough, so you’re losing round one, Goku.”

“Dang it.”

“Don’t worry! You’ll get a power up!”

“Still dang it.”
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I think Goku loses to Superman simply because Goku can’t win his first fight against someone like that.

It’s round two where Goku has any narrative chance.
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Past a certain point, Dragon Ball power-scaling is just “can this character hurt this character.” It doesn’t feel like there’s a tangible distinction beyond that.
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To be fair, I had a narrative thing I was doing with it, but the payoff’s not worth it being a tool in the character’s ongoing arsenal. Any difficult one-on-one fight would become “welp, we know how they’re going to try and deal with this.”
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Agreed. Elliot‘s default is extremely accepting, but he can also be influenced. His feelings of guilt about enjoying fights has made it so he doesn’t like getting introspective, so it took outside influences to get him to realize what he was doing.
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I can give this character a high risk, high reward spell, or I can just have them use their brain to win a difficult fight… HMM…

“CUT THE SPELL”

Really? You sure?

“YOU WRITING DRAGON BALL?”

Of course not.

“THEN CUT THE EVER-LIVING CARP OUT OF THAT”
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“I just heard about kerning and have decided I know more than everyone else.”
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Technically correct, the best kind of correct, doesn’t necessarily apply to people talking 😅