What you’re describing is the Science Fantasy subgenre. If you haven’t already, like Sanctuary and Fringe are exactly what you’d be looking for.

I know you do.

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The statement is to set them apart from from you and to display power. So you could go with something like,

“Shit, they still make you buy your uniform when you rich eh. Some things never change.”

But more elegantly. Reassert that they are subject to others’ power/approval and relate to them to assert that they’re no different from you.

They’re just doing the same thing as the teacher and assuming the two pizzas have to be of equal size and therefore it’s an impossible situation.

The estimate is 130-140 aircraft existed in the entire fleet, so sounds like the former.

You need a bit balance of everything. I used to be snooty about small-talk. Eventually I started noticing that the most personable people, who make someone new feel welcome, included, and who make you feel like you’re noticed and worth remembering through recalling basic personal details–these people have excellent small-talk skills.

I think part of why small-talk often feels pointless is because people don’t enter into it intentionally, with purpose. If you go into it with purpose, like creating a good social experience for others, or building/maintaining 2nd/3rd order social connections in a humanizing way, it feels a lot different. Like anything, it’s still exhausting after a certain amount.

Sure, I don’t disagree with what you said. Some will say Applied Science is a category of science, others will say it’s distinct from capital “S” Science. I don’t really care either way, the distinction I was making was: Science is a process of developing knowledge that explains the natural/observable universe, including the humans/societies within it, i.e. a way of understanding what is. Engineering is the application of scientific knowledge, principles, and methods of inquiry in the construction and development of technology–it does not seek to explain things about the world.

I guess there was Foldit 😅

That’s engineering, not science. There is no science gameplay, you just have science points that you spend.

It’s less that it’s bad for her and more that it’s another way the US is dismantling their own soft power. There are long term advantages to having the rich and powerful from around the world get their upper education in your universities.

They mean 30% less

PS4 MSRP @399 PS4 Slim MSRP @299

XBOX One @499 XBOX One S @299-399

In 5 years, Americans who fuck up while visiting Europe or Asia and get deported will have a meltdown thinking they’re being sent to Latin America.

I think the threats, limitations, and harms already underway due to AI are very real. And it’s scary thinking how the issues will develop under the current ways such technologies get pursued and implemented to accrue power.

I also think we should be honest about the capabilities of the technology, the practical applications of it, and reconcile with the fact that the genie is out of the bottle. It’s the industrial revolution, it’s electricity, it’s the assembly line, and nuclear fission.

Well no, the AI doesn’t do the curating, the company running the AI-powered platform does the curating. Neural Net AIs aren’t built to understand anything. The company running the platform curates the training, prompt engineering, and non-AI structures (algorithms, rigid parameters, and basic rules) that hone the generative AI into maximizing the desirable kind of outputs and minimizing undesirable outputs for the specific field of tasks.

Maybe it’s been a while since you last tried. As a test, this is the first logo ChatGPT generated after 2 minutes of typing from me. I wouldn’t say it’s a good logo, but it’s not an over busy/problematic logo design wise.

This is not an AI vs professional human issue, this is an issue with taste. You cannot prevent someone from pointing to the right option and saying “I want that to be my logo because it’s a pretty illustration”

You can easily get ChatGPT to generate logos that are at least functional, give it a try. Start with

1. What are the fundamental rules and standards of designing a logo?
2. Based on these rules, generate a logo for the brand “HomeCraft” involving the shape of a house.

I’m not saying it comes close what a professional will give you, but it’s a million times better than what your worst DIY client brings to the table.

It’s probably a bot for marketing the platform

Devil’s advocate: Another way to think of it is that as AI tools mature, we will see more tools make an impact the way template-based web builders transitioned us away from, at best, charmingly kitchy html business websites of '95-'05 that are horribly optimized and broken half the time towards standardized options that cover the basics with curated choices for clients to express themselves without hanging themselves. Yes, the template builders did homogenize business websites, but for all the businesses that weren’t going to/couldn’t pay for a serious web developer/designer anyway I’d rather go to their website and experience a bland predictable layout than experience my browser melting even though there may be a glimmer of creativity from the enthusiastic teenager they hired to build it from scratch (I was that teenager).

We’re all fixated on how AI could not do the work for the top 25% of clients who require high quality professional work. We forget that 75% of clients cheap out for DIY/scam/hack options when it comes to design, resulting in lots of crap in the ether. AI tools have huge potential for smoothing out the low-hanging fruit of basic pain points.