jakelafort

_Robert_ wrote:
In shadows deep, where tales of old are spun, A dragon fierce, with scales of midnight’s hue, Awakens from its slumber ‘neath the sun,

A dragon wakes up ‘neath the sun but in shadows deep? Which is it? It is just grabbing from a list of atmospheric phrases and piecing it together, even if it makes no sense.

Of course it does:…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I wonder if teachers and professors are typically acute enough to know when students are passing off Chat.

I didn’t see any giveaways in the sonnet. Did you?

An early influence on Pau? Sheila E was a percussionist for Prince and had a hit of her own in The Glamorous Life. Sheila E was the earliest female drummer of note that I’m aware of and was another latina as well (more likely Puerto Rico than Mexico, though):

Drum duo with two young up and coming drummers. Pau(lina) Villarreal and Faith Benson do a drum duo (no, not a drum battle) at an awards ceremony:

PopeBeanie wrote:
Among her other passions and skills, she’s already earned a permanent place in rock history.

As TW’s drummer, programmer, main arranger and lyricist, she’s the beating (pun intended) heart of the band. And she’s gaining recognition, too!

The winner of the “Up and Coming” category in Modern Drummer‘s 2023 Readers Poll is… Paul…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
That is better than the earlier AI generated poems.

Yes, I agree. And back then I had to teach it how sonnets are structured. It went right ahead and did it this time.

If I were teaching college-level poetry composition, I’d give it somewhere in the B+ to A- range, A or A+ held in reserve for something absolutely brilliant.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
“Science Doesn’t Care What You Believe,” “Science: Like Magic, Only Real,” […]

That’s cool, and makes me smile. I’ve noticed before how great their marketing to westerners is, making me think they’ve hired some savvy westerners to translate, and maybe they have a marketing department with westerners employed. Speaking…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Teatro Metropolitan, a concert that’s about as close to perfectly recorded as a live concert can be

Speaking of which, in the case of compiling recordings from two nights into one video, it just hit me how Pau’s click track on the laptop right next to her is what enabled those perfectable synchronizations. Among her other passions a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Of course, all of the videos the reactions are based on are easily found on Youtube without the reactions and comments.

Good point. I wish all reactors would include a link to the original performance. So… in case our topics live a long time (or eventually get indexed better), I’ll try to remember to include links in each post to…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’ve seen headlines about China producing fembots, but I haven’t clicked on any, so I dunno if they’re meant to be exported to countries that they deem to be the highest threats to the CCP.

I rewatched the 1978 classic movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers last night and since we’re already replacing people with machines in facto…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I do wonder if real women will be replaced with sex toys by men who are not making good money or are shorter than 5’10”. The population reduction may save the planet, who knows?

The “population bomb” used to be thought to be a population expanding beyond the planet’s ability to support it.

The current thinking, however, is tha…[Read more]

I’ve seen headlines about China producing fembots, but I haven’t clicked on any, so I dunno if they’re meant to be exported to countries that they deem to be the highest threats to the CCP. (Who needs to worry about alien fembots taking over, unless aliens are allowed sell and ship via Temu?)

@ Robert

Many years ago (so old, I think it was  on the old Nightline show on ABC) there was a segment on robotics. Some scientist or engineer was at a trade show of some sort and there was a booth that was showing some animatronic toys and people were responding to them exactly as if they were puppies or kittens. Reminded, they were just…[Read more]

Wisdom. Only 45 seconds.

I guess I’m not into Classic Rock as a solitary genre. especially when it’s programmed as a canned, “Best Classic Rock Of All Time” list of 100 at a time. I’m sure it’s fine for a lot of people, and any suggestions you and I make are probably helpful for a wide range of people. I do see several of their other sets-of-100 lists. Click once, and it…[Read more]

At what point does intelligent AI qualify as “life.” We have enough trouble defining the kind of life we accept as living. Do viruses qualify as life? At what point is a fertilized egg alive? Immediately or when it becomes viable or once it’s born and can survive (with help) outside the womb?

PopeBeanie wrote:
Plus I just realized a new possibility: What if the only evidence of intelligent life we discover will be from AI robots, making us wonder who and where their creators are, or were?

Don’t forget that Prof. Kipping is talking about the possibility there’s no life, not no intelligent life in the first video.

If we do get a signal…[Read more]