On the other hand, there is a saying that is gaining traction in a number of professions:
“AI won’t make [humans in the profession] obsolete. It will make [humans in the profession] who don’t use AI obsolete.”
On the other hand, posting here isn’t anybody’s job.
Sigh…
Which is fortunate, because some would be fired.
Isn’t that basically what a ban is?
No, it took running an ASCII generator program. Just upload a picture and it generates an ASCII version. Pretty much involved as little effort as using AI to generate one’s political emails.
The work was on the part of the people writing the software, not the people using it.
I remember ASCII art generators of the mid-1970s. They would take a photograph of you and automatically convert it to ASCII art. It’s nothing new.
Strictly, wasn’t that simply “bitmap” ASCII, using characters with known balances of light and dark to create a greyscale image similar to old-fashioned halftone imaging? Whereas the other method is using the actual shapes of ASCII characters to draw cartoon elements?
Anyone else getting the impression that Ms2001 is not discussing in good faith in the DEI thread?
Small meaningless concessions that mean nothing in the long run, just to throw people off.
And I can’t wait for her rambling definition of “deflection”, since she seems to be an expert on the subject.
Playing ‘personal insult chicken’ in GD always goes over well with the mods.
Shalmanese is way up his own ass with pretentious horseshit in the “I’m missing something about AI training” thread in CS. A sample:
What you go to fine dining for is not deliciousness. Will it be delicious? Yeah, that’s the table stakes. The reason you go to fine dining instead of having the most expertly crafted burger or lobster or A5 steak is to experience a point of view. It’s to be able to ask, why is this chef, in this moment, placing this plate of food in front of me, what do they want me to experience? The same plate of food, lacking this context, and crucially, the ability to interrogate context, is just another plate of food.
The guy sounds like Ricken from Severance.
In the middle of interrogate…is err.
All I know is I occasionally splurge on a very special restaurant experience. My only criteria is taste and deliciousness. Fine if the ambience and service are beyond the norm, but so long as they’re not spitting in my food or on me, heh, just give me good food.
My mother and I, years ago, once went to a very fancy restaurant. Lots of great ambience. Excellent service. Mediocre food. We were both very disappointed; and, even if we’d had the money to do that sort of thing often, we wouldn’t have done it again there.
Who needs food when you can have ATMOSPHERE?
~Max
Many years ago in a place where I lived for a long time, there was a little-known chef who was making some of the best food I’ve ever had in my life. He moved around a lot. I never really understood why, but within a year or two, he would desert his current venue and move on to another. I and a few other “in-the-know” friends followed him from place to place like groupies.
It eventually came to pass that the fellow was chefing (if this isn’t a word, it should be!) at a rough 'n ready biker bar located at a popular beach.
Off we went. We lined up behind all the ultra-inked-and-leathered clientele to place our orders at the speak-easy style window: “May I have the lobster ravioli with beurre blanc and pomegranate sauce, and a radicchio (it was radiccio’s moment) butter lettuce salad to start? And an extra order of your delicious bread, please!” Then off to the bar to order drinks and finally to the worn, picnic-style tables adjacent to clattering pool tables to elbow out a spot to savor the meal.
The ambience sucked. But the food is memorable to this day, and at least there was free cabaret!
Give me good food any day over ambience!
I, otoh, live where there’s a greasy spoon diner.
Complete with 90yo deaf waitress. Named Therry. (Yeah, I’ve thought about it too, an abomination of Theresa, I’m thinkin’)
It’s so dang popular. Of course the little village is not strewn with restaurants and activities galore. The gas station. An always locked laundry mat and a bank kiosk. In case you need cash.
(Enough color).
The little Diner(The Topper, no, don’t know why) makes a decent breakfast if you can stomach the clientele. But everything else is awful. Just awful.
So crappy ambience and crappy food.
Aces.
Except for Generous George’s, all my favorite restaurants have been holes in the wall with wonderful staff and great food at good prices,
Generous George’s Positive Pizza And Pasta Experience had the atmosphere of a carnival. There were large and garish decorations everywhere. This included sone animals from carousels. The food was not cheap. It was roughly double what you usually paid. However, the amount of food you got for that money was ridiculously large. At minimum, the servings were three times the usual size. I looked the place up on the web, and was very sad to see that they had closed and that there were no good photos of the interior.
My Gobhi and I love Rangoli, an Indian restaurant. The staff is friendly. The service is great. The prices are reasonable. The food is terrific It is in a strip mall,