zifnab25 [he/him, any]

Me: “Mom, can we have New Star Trek?”

Dune Mom: “You have Old Star Trek at home”

Old Star Trek At Home

Picard was already bordering on elder abuse.

Certainly possible that elements were AI generated. However, this image feels like it had someone putting polish on it. The symmetry - both in the setting and in the focal point of the image - plus the sharper color contrast particularly between the red of Mt. Doom and the blue of the mountains and the way that you get a real sense of light coming directly from the volcano and radiating out into the rest of the image. Someone definitely had their hands on this in a material way, even if it was just moving clip-art onto a canvas and tweaking the colors a bit.

Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam

Nice try, but everyone knows timelines only impact hair below the earline.

Adding 30 years to a cast that was already in their 30s/40s when the original aired was hard enough with Picard, when the people were supposed to look like people. And that series wrapped last year.

Curious to see what they do with the remake, but folks aren’t getting any younger.

yeah, the comic describes it as “the virtually impossible”

We are a lot better at it now than we were, say, ten years ago. But it is nearly trivial to outwit a “bird detecting algorithm” by holding up a vague facsimile of a bird. That gets us back to the old TrashFuture line about AI just being “some dude at a computer filling out captchas”.

I’m not saying we aren’t building on centuries of work, i’m saying the rate of recent progress is remarkable.

The recent progress is heavily overstated. More often than not, what a computer does today to recognize a bird is to pull on a large library of data labeled “birds” and ask if there’s a close-enough match. But that large library is not AI driven. Its the consequence of a bunch of manual labeling done by humans with eyes and brains. A novel or rare species of bird, or a bird that’s camouflaged, or even just a bird that’s out-of-focus or badly rendered, will still consistently fail the “Is this a bird?” test.

The original problem was posited… 60 years ago?

It’s a bit like saying “I wonder how the dinosaurs died?” in the early '00s, a few years before meteor theory really got nailed down. Like, ignore the last century of postulation. We just knocked this out real quick.

Trans Warp Drive

“Getting a little handsy” in the Vulcan vernacular has a whole new spin.

• Free healthcare

• Free public housing

• No debt

• Spend all your days cruising the galaxy with your buds, looking for more people who want to join the party

Yeah, I’m not clear what’s on this list that I’m not supposed to like.

If she wasn’t on Discovery, she might have scored more points.

Based and hair piled. Nobody else has that cut.

All these conservatives from back in the 90s telling people “Learn to code!” with no idea of the tidal wave they were about to unleash.