While the world is now aware of it, until 2021, only one person had known what the skull looked like since its discovery in the 1930s. It was unearthed in Harbin, in northeast China, during the Japanese occupation of the area. Not wanting it to be seized by the occupying government, the person who found the skull immediately hid it, and he kept it hidden for most of the rest of his life.

He eventually turned it over to scientists in 2018, who published their analysis in 2021.

Amazing.

No facial reconstruction though. But yowza thems some big peepers.

They’re doing it everywhere. So they can get pictures of everyone’s face for their Palantir gestapo database

The DoJ was a big help too

Oooh! Hey ask him where our fucking unredacted Mueller Reports are.

Looks like it worked? Congratulations!

A hosting account and whatever forum software is these days is like $10/mo and you own the whoe kit 'n kaboodle. But no, Facebook users won’t come anyway so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

teh feetz!!

x10 quality?

https://lemmy.world/c/perseverancerover Is a space one that doesn’t come up a lot but is cool when it does.

Pennsylvania 6-5000!

(nah, j/k it’s Jenny.)

I can’t find it now but Kabosu’s person wasn’t happy about it.

Clearly you are someone of refined taste and culture.

Massive environmental harms

I find this questionable; people forget that a locally-hosted LLM is no more taxing than a video game.

So read and learn.

No chance it’s going to get better

Why do you believe this? It has continued to get dramatically better over the past 5 years. Look at where GPT2 was in 2019.

Fair enough. It’s not going to get better because the fundamental problem is AI as represented by, say, ChatGPT doesn’t know anything. It has no understanding of anything it’s “saying”. Therefore, any results derived from ChatGPT or equivalent, will need to be double-checked in any serious endeavor. So, yes it can poop out a legal brief in two seconds but it still has to be revised, refined, and inevitably fixed when it hallucinates precedent citations and just about anything else. That, the core of it, will never get better. It might get faster. It might “sound” “more human”. But it won’t get better.

No profitable product […] Tens of thousands of (useful!) careers terminated

Do you not see the obvious contradiction here? If you are sure that this is not going to get better and it’s not profitable, then you have nothing to worry about in the long-term about careers being replaced by AIs.

Well tell that to the half a million people laid off in the last couple of years. Damage is done. Also, the bubble is still growing, and if you haven’t noticed what AI has done to the HR industry, let me summarize it thusly: it has destroyed it.

Destroyed Internet search, arguably the one necessary service on the Internet

Google did this intentionally as part of enshittification.

Well, yes. Every company which has chosen to promote and focus on AI has done so intentionally. That doesn’t mean it’s good. If AI wasn’t the all-hype vaporware it is, this wouldn’t have been an option. If OpenAI had been honest about it and said “it’s very interesting and we’re still working on it” instead of “it’s absolutely going to change the world in six months” this wouldn’t be the unusable shitpile it is.

Wh- whaaaaat? Ha ha. I don’t - that’s not - I would never! OMG that’s just so crazy to think. That people would, y’know, do. That.

Listen . . . (shhhh)
To what the troll DM pixels say . . .

Ah-aahhh-ahhhh-ahhhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh

I dunno, somehow tumblr seems to do ok with the considered takes.

I like your style, Dude.

Any questions?

Mais oui!