NateCow

NateCow t1_je2f71i wrote

Reply to comment by sarahjd82 in LPT: How to support someone grieving: the process is not linear and often takes longer than people think (even, and sometimes especially, when the relationship with the deceased was painful or estranged). A year may seem like a long time since a death, but to the grieving, it can feel very recent. by survivalothefittest

As soon as I read "The best explanation for grief," I figured you were going to go into the ball in the box. Spot fucking on. I lost one of my best friends and then my girlfriend with 16 months of each other, both while I was living across the country for work. That metaphor really helped me through the random waves of grief.

A friend of mine lost his wife (of just under 3 years) last year. The thing I told him is that it doesn't get "easier." You just get used to it. You're suddenly thrust into a new phase of life without that person, and you'll eventually grow accustomed to this new reality.

EDIT: Rephrasing.

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NateCow t1_j4rnble wrote

Reply to comment by angrathias in ChatGPT won't kill Google, it will help it. Generative AI's biggest impact will be on office apps, not search engines. by cartoonzi

Honestly I figure it's probably just stealing a bunch of stuff from Stack Overflow anyway. I was trying to figure out a regular expression the other night. All my Stack Overflow findings were really complex and I couldn't get any of them to work. Tried ChatGDP and it also spit out a super complicated one that.. didn't work.

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NateCow t1_j4rn4hq wrote

Reply to comment by ArcadiaNisus in ChatGPT won't kill Google, it will help it. Generative AI's biggest impact will be on office apps, not search engines. by cartoonzi

>My observation is if you ask a question with a bias it'll reinforce your bias.

This. The first thing I told it to do (I work in visual effects) was explain why AI will never replace rotoscope artists, just for the lol's. It confidently made a lot of great points that I would personally argue in support of human artists. I then flipped it around and it confidently declared artists are no longer needed.

I also tried having it make an about page for my website, seeing as I've had a website and public profiles on various websites for a long time. It very confidently went on and on about how I'm a full-stack developer with lots of experience in various technologies.

I am not a full-stack developer. I've dabbled in coding and building some automation tools related to my own work, and a little web design, but that's it. I then told it to highlight my visual effects career, at which point it touted how I'm experienced in Houdini and Maya, two applications I have never touched.

Granted, the pool of information surrounding me was probably limited in terms of lots of corroborating data points. It was amusing nonetheless. I'm enjoying using it to generate little blurbs of website copy for a site I manage on the side.

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NateCow t1_j10pfnt wrote

Reply to You Know a Question I Haven't Seen Anyone Asking? by CalvinSays

These are exactly the only questions I seem to see people asking. EDIT: Sorry, missed your /s tag :P

I think everyone's losing their shit a little too much. AI will only replace a job as far as said job doesn't require user-feedback and correction.

In my neck of the woods, people are losing their minds that AI will generate VFX for movies. Okay, can it address minute notes? Didn't think so.

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NateCow t1_irtw81f wrote

Reply to comment by whopperlover17 in Some iPhone 14 users say the crash detection feature has triggered false alarms and called 911 during rollercoaster rides or after a phone drop while driving by speckz

How so? Theme parks are pretty large swaths of land devoid of transit roads. If it detects what it thinks is a car crash and you happen to be 1) nowhere near a road and 2) inside a geofence of a known theme park, it's pretty easy to assume it's a false alarm.

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