I always wondered if Grace’s characters last name of Rand in the TV show Star Trek was an homage to Bill’s wife at the time?
- Grace Lee Whitney - Janice Rand
- Bill’s first wife - Gloria Rand
Wheels
There’s always someone else…
The biggest problem with AI manipulation is that people are refusing to believe their eyes when they see anything they don’t have personal experience with.
A girl couldn’t possibly look like that because I’ve never seen one in person, so it must be either a fake photo or a real photo of a fake body.
Do some people go overboard with cosmetic alterations? Yes. Do some manipulate photos, especially in memes, to try and get social media interactions? Undoubtedly!
The reflex reaction to call them out as fake, though, because they don’t look “right” to you is instead creating a narrower set of acceptable parameters. In other words, you’re creating a stereotype of what they should look like.
I guess the moral of the story is…maybe it’s fake, but maybe it isn’t. What is gained by shouting “fake!” when you see it? It seems sometimes half the comments on any picture online that is presented as genuine gets calls of “fake!” because…people want to get credit for correctly identifying it??? There is no repercussions for being wrong??? What is the impetus for people to slam it without actually knowing? I don’t understand.
The piper of course!
That Piperjet is a perfect example of AI. It knows jets, when viewed from the front, have big fan intakes. It neither knows nor cares that the exhaust is hot and fast and needs somewhere to exit the engine 
The 2nd one. At least unlike the Piper with those (comparatively) huge engines it isn’t going to run out of fuel just taxiing from the ramp to the runway 
I admit that sometimes I enjoy basically being a wizard in the eyes of most people over 60 and under 30.
But yeah, I also sometimes scream inside. Especially when dealing with young people. I firmly believe that they aren’t any dumber than I am. I don’t understand why they never learned the skills that are needed for so many things, be it job or hobby.
It doesn’t appeal to them. Look at the omnipresence and abstraction level of computing these days. Would that have lighted the spark in 14 year old you?
I love machines, and how they work, what makes them tick. Looking at a tablet or smartphone, that feeling is just not there.
That’s true! And exactly the reason why kids should be given a PC to work/play/mess around with. Instantly opens up another world.
My 10 year old (where did those years go?) daughter has a Linux laptop and last weekend she watched me set up (and explain) a new Minecraft server on my RaspberryPi, learning some things about how servers work and stuff.
We try out stuff and make it fun. Kids want to learn.
My kids won’t be computer illiterates.
Because what runs on them is the software equivalent of nose candy. They aren’t supposed to teach you something, just to skull**** you with ads while collecting telemetry about your preferences. Any second spent not interacting with an ecommerce platform or social media is a wasted opportunity in the eyes of our surveillance capitalist overlords.
Smartphone apps are software in the same way as Doritos are food.
Code is code. Carbs are carbs.
I love these videos… 
I wish my job could be just removing rusted and difficult bolts.
No you don’t. Because after you shear the rusty bolt head, you then try an ‘ezi-out’ - the most misnamed tool ever - which is also guaranteed to break and is 100 times harder than any known drill bit 
Next step ….FIRE😀
No. No you don’t