[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

You are misrepresenting a lot of stuff here.

it's behavior is unpredictable

This entirely depends on the quality of the AI and the task at hand. A well made AI can be relatively predictable. However, most tasks that AI excels at are tasks which themselves do not have a predictable solution. For instance, handwriting recognition can be solved by a neural network with much better than human accuracy. That task does not have a perfect solution, and there is not an ideal answer for each possible input (one person's 'a' could look exactly the same as another's 'o'). The same can be said for almost all games, especially those involving a human player.

and therefore cannot be tested

Unpredictable things can be tested. That's pretty much what the entire field of statistics and probability is about. Also, testability is a fundamental requirement for any kind of machine learning. It isn't just a good practice kind of thing; if you can't test your model, you don't even have a model in the first place. The whole point is to create many candidate models and test them to find the best one.

It would cheat and find ways to know things about the game state that it's not supposed to know

A neural network only knows what you tell it. If you don't tell it where the player is, it's not going to magically deduce it from nothing. Also, it's output has to be interpreted to even be used. The raw output is a vector of numbers. How this is transformed into usable actions is entirely up to the developer. If that transformation allows violating the rules, that's the developers fault, not the networks. The same can be said of human input; it is the developers responsibility to transform that into permissable actions in game.

it would hide in a corner as far away from the player as possible because it's parameters is to avoid death

That is possible. Which is why you should make a performance metric that reflects what you actually want it to try to do. This is a very common issue and is just part of the process of making an AI. It is not an insurmountable problem.

Neural networks have been used to play countless games before. It's probably one of the most studied use cases simply because it is so easy to do.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

That's not how copyright works (at least not in the US). when a corporation creates a copyrighted work (by way of paying the person(s) that actually made it), the duration is set as 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication. The lifetime of any employee is not taken into account. When a copyright is made by a person, it lasts until 70 years after that person dies. You cannot swap out that person for someone else, even if the owner of the copyright changes.

You are probably thinking of a method that is used to make private agreements last basically forever. A private contract technically isn't allowed to last forever, there has to be some point of expiration. To make a contract last forever anyway, they pick some condition that probably won't happen for a ridiculous amount of time, such as when the last descendant of the king of England dies (I assume they use this because the royal family keeps good genealogy records). If a currently living person is required, they might pick some infant relative to make it last as long as possible.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

It's a different joke. He's saying a doctor with good ratings like 9/10 would say to stop, but he has bad ratings, 2/10, so he's going to give bad advice.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 weeks ago

I think the fan edit is way better. First of all, the red lips add some much needed contrast to her face. The original makes her all green except for her eyes, which are mostly white and black. The red helps make the green appear more significant and distinct. I think they should change the background too for the same reason.

Hiding the eyes does dehumanize her, but that's a good thing here. It makes her look sinister, and ascribes some character to her. The smile also helps. Her expression is so blank in the original that you can't get any idea of what this character is. The fan edit tells a story, where the original is just a person.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I think "making history" has just become one of those phrases media uses all the time now. Kind of like how any dispute is now "slamming" someone, apparently. Or how anyone you think is wrong is "unhinged".

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

It already was. The Ohio SC upheld almost all of the phrasing.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

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[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago

Nobody will remember this time in a few decades. Garfield was straight up assassinated and you're just now realizing that I'm not talking about the cat.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago

That's assuming printing money is the default solution. Taxes have existed for longer than that. The earliest taxes were literally a portion of a farmers harvest. You can't just print more food, or gold, or whatever else. Printing money to fund government was never really an option, so positioning taxes as a solution to inflation just doesn't make sense. It's like saying that instead of eating at a restaurant, you could eat roadkill, which you aren't going to do because of disease, and therefore restaurants are a way of reducing disease rather than providing food.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

I think it's more that opengl is a higher level API that offers less granular control in exchange for easier cross platform support.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

The bill itself says, more or less, "any foreign adversary controlled app is banned. Also, TikTok is a foreign adversary controlled app". So it doesn't apply exclusively to TikTok, but it does explicitly include them.

[-] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I dislike TikTok as much as the next guy, but I think there are several issues with this bill:

  • It specifically mentions TikTok and ByteDance. While none of the provisions seem to apply exclusively to them, the way they are included would give them no recourse to petition this, the way other companies would be able to (ie, other companies could argue in court that they aren't controlled by a foreign adversary, but TikTok can't. The bill literally defines "foreign adversary controlled application" as "TikTok, or ..." (g.3.A)). It also gives the appearance that this law is only supposed to apply to them, which isn't what it says but it might be treated that way anyway.

  • It leaves the determination of whether or not a company is "controlled by a foreign adversary" entirely up to the president. He has to explain himself to Congress, but doesn't need their approval. That seems ripe for exploitation. I think it should require Congress to approve, either in a addition to or instead of the president.

  • According to g.2.A.ii (in the definition of "covered company"), the law only applies to social media with more than 1,000,000 monthly active users. Not sure why that's included.

  • There is a specific exemption for any app that's for posting reviews (g.2.B). I'm guessing one such company paid a whole lot to just not have this apply to them.

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