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Really? Need more data, as the old school automatons used to say ... like actual costs (purchase, monthly subcription, software updates, energy supply). I don't see any of them for sale on Temu, so for now, humans would still be a heck of a lot cheaper (and more versatile) for any business I'm...

You know those machines already exist, don't you? I've had one for twenty years - first appliance we bought for our house when we moved to France, even before fridge or cooker!

How many working hours are there in a day? Here in France, we're already on a "3-day-week" as standard, compared to many countries (35 hours maximum). In practice, this more often takes the form of a 4-day working week, 3-day weekend. A couple of years ago, I was offered a (permanent...

My remark about Figure taking itself home from the hypothetical business was somewhat sarcastic, but there's no good reason why a business owner would want an automaton programmed to work at peak efficiency in his/her business environment coming back to the family home to sort trash from apples...

The first programmable, automated looms were invented in France and Britain in the late 1700s (before the USofA came into existence ;) ). If you've never seen one in real life, you're missing out on some mind-blowing technology - especially when you remind yourself that they didn't have...

:hi: Ciao, Lorenzo !

Ahhh, the old "I was just following orders" excuse, beloved of those humans with limited intellectual and/or moral capacity. :seeya:

:D My reaction is: stupid robot - didn't think that maybe that plate should have been washed first, seeing as it'd just had some filthy trash on it. Oh, and as it wasn't wet, why would it go in a drying rack. If it aspired to intelligence, the robot should have blasted the human with laser beams...

Is this the first instalment, or do we need to discuss how you should go about it? :D

Was it a for a French company and/or in France? If so, under French law the default maximum period for settlement of B2B invoices is 30 days, after which daily interest and administrative fees can be added. As the natives are pretty good at enforcing their rights with menaces, a foreigner's...

Yes, but that's never what happens in reality. Trades, crafts and professions have been coming and going for millenia in response to society's response to inventions and changing mindsets. You'll never see a lamplighter doing his rounds in the streets of London today, but there's still a horde...

Way off topic now, but this aspect of the American Dream - wanting to be governed rules laid down by a few privileged white dudes nearly 200 years ago - is something we Old Worlders look at and scratch our heads. :contract: Here in France, our constitution was updated yesterday, for the 26th...

Meanwhile, a bit of light relief: (pretend it's about costume design, to keep it movie-related :director: )

Specifically on the topic of creativity, Sabine Hossenfelder this week highlights some recent studies showing how "AI" is becomes less creative as it "learns" from its own output, output which has either been homogenised to the point of banality, or spewed out the same kind of error to the...

This is sort of what I meant when I remarked previously that Sora possibly has the potential to be a useful storyboarding tool, and could well become capable of producing a "complete" movie ... in very rough form. However, from what I've seen of ChatGPT and other machine-learning/pseudoAI...

It sounds like you're asking three different questions: - (1) is it okay to make a film about a highly emotive topic? Answer: yes, of course; it's done all the time. Whether it's a topic that will interest other people when it comes to making the movie, and whether it's a topic that'll attract...

Greetings, Lydia! :hi:

Ah, OK. That makes a lot more sense. Making you think you're seeing pixels where there aren't any is a reasonable use of an algorithm - but it's still only mimicking what our brains do with UHD images coming in through our own eyes. I haven't really paid an awful lot of attention to VR...

:huh: Is that your own assertion, or are you quoting from someone somewhere? Either way, there's a giant incoherence in the proposition: visual "resolution" is measured in pixels, so if you eliminate them, you inevitably reduce the image resolution. Given that our eyes function at a resolution...

You're a great man for getting excited about announcements. :D I've got to that stage in life where I've learnt that announcements are the easiest part of the delivery process. So just about keeping up with the robots of the 1950s, then.