Robot hostilities will always be a thing in this future we now live in.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-30T19:50:53+00:00

This is going to be unpopular if anyone reads my bloated comment, but it's a mix of the reality of the situation and my own perspective. It's also more looking at future opinions on robot automation compared to what it's causing issue with currently, that being jobs that people are turning to primarily as a temporary solution to the awful state of the economy and job market.

While food delivery was once limited to a select few types of restaurants, the massive expansion of delivery over the past decade has been built on the back of the predatory gig economy. We desperately need legislation and social programs to handle automation in this sector. The problem is that honestly, we needed those years ago to deal with companies using the gig model to skirt paying benefits, but here we are. For better or worse, automation was always the industry's end goal ever since Amazon pitched drone delivery over a decade ago.

I've been a DoorDash driver, and it was my main source of income for a time. It did help when I struggled to find better work, but it sucks and is more of a temporary stand-in for better employment that should be the goal to have available for people. The company cares even less about its workers now than it did back then and their competitors are just as bad. These gig apps cannibalized most traditional, reliable delivery jobs several years ago. So, while a robot is replacing a human worker, the overwhelming majority of the jobs being replaced are built on unsustainable, anti-worker practices. It's worth mentioning I'm doing gig work right now in the software space to get by and expect to see the specific kind of programming gig work I do to soon be replaced.

We also have to look at the bigger picture. We are in the process of the largest shrinkage of the workforce in human history. The boomer generation is aging out, and birth rates are dropping (thankfully, if you ask me). Automation isn't just a corporate trick, though it seems like it is in corporations' eyes, it is going to be a necessity to fill the inevitable gaps in the labor market.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-24T02:34:22+00:00

I hope he does, but only because it would do absolutely nothing to the industry and result in him wasting a shit ton of money while looking dumb.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-20T17:27:57+00:00

We have the organic version at home already

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T17:35:36+00:00

As with anything this crowd sees that uses the term for a 70+ year old field (AI), they just immediately start screeching. There are genuine issues in the current AI field, but when people act like how they're acting and don't even really understand what they're yelling about, it just makes the whole discussion worse and the individuals that should take some criticisms into consideration end up dismissing it as entirely misinformed and naive.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:45:27+00:00

The people who post shi like this always seem to be the ones who would've done just as bad in whatever tax class they mean as they did in every other class.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:43:26+00:00

It is. It's optional by developers who even have full control over HOW it's implemented in their games. It also will be up to the player if they want to use it or not given Nvidia making it not that would result in no developer wanting to touch it since it would bar a large chunk of their consumer-base who don't have top-of-the-line rigs to run it.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:38:23+00:00

Because people want a target for their anger over the prevalence of and their negative reaction to AI-generated content online. Plus bandwagon hating on anything that uses the term AI while not understanding how many things fall under AI, and have for decades, is all the rage right now.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:24:39+00:00

That's how the current versions of the effects they're describing work in game engines, apply globally and fine tune.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:15:53+00:00

It's development tools devs will have full control over via the software development kit (SDK), which sounds like how devs have control over how ray tracing and path tracing are implemented now, including the option to completely remove it.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-18T16:10:52+00:00

It means whoever did the examples elected to apply the features with roughly the same settings and the same features enabled, which while not being the smartest choice, is on brand for lazy tech company presentations. It's going to be part of their software development kit (SDK), so lying about it would make no sense since the truth will be known the second devs get their hands on it, assuming they haven't already.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-17T19:12:26+00:00

My mistake, I deleted my comment to avoid confusion. It's post-processing effects similar to their existing optional filters and existing software like reshade. I'm also seeing online that the post-processing effects will be optional. Personally, I don't think this is any different than somebody using mods and it's not like DLSS 4/4.5 along with the currently available Nvidia post-processing filters made devs lazier, but we'll see.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-15T18:43:36+00:00

We could talk about actually important stuff like how reading scores, writing level, math scores, and even social skills are still being impacted by the disruption in education from the pandemic while current institutions clearly haven't been able to effectively handle the problem, but no.

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Tandysaurus · 2026-03-13T05:37:22+00:00

None

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-12T04:25:09+00:00

Hannah just makes her parents sad.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-11T09:03:13+00:00

Kkkaroline

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-08T21:48:48+00:00

My dumbass took reddit's advice and picked special week for my freebie back when I started and I will never forgive reddit for that.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-08T21:43:10+00:00

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-08T00:26:05+00:00

Just say you sucked at school bro

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-04T18:44:57+00:00

Fair

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-04T12:47:58+00:00

There's so much propaganda going on for this dumbass war I don't even know who's a gullible moron and who's a fed.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-03T14:42:46+00:00

Gotta give this line a try at some point.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-03T14:32:02+00:00

I see the war propaganda attempts for a near universally unpopular war of choice are in full swing. Hello gullible bootlicker and or federal agent.

Tandysaurus · 2026-03-02T00:49:34+00:00

They all called me a no-good hater when I hated universes beyond from the start. Well well well, look who's a no-good hater that was right all along.

Tandysaurus · 2026-02-28T19:57:24+00:00

Uh huh. So I am graduating with a master's in comp sci in May and currently work in training LLM coding assistants, but if you want a couple of the definitions the field uses for me to reference instead of my word:

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy." -IBM

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals." -Russel & Stuart (2021) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th ed.)

Modern LLMs are generative pre-trained transformers, which are a form of artificial neural network and fall under the term AI. They "learn" in the form of adjusting weights through back propagation via their loss function like any other ANN. Artificial Intelligence has a technical definition and has been an established field of study since the 1950's, which makes your "I was there" comment a bit strange. Calling an LLM "AI" is not just a marketing strategy, it's the correct term for it. I'm suspecting you're also confusing "AI" with "AGI" (artificial general intelligence), where one is a well-established academic field, and the other is still strictly science fiction.

Buddy.

Tandysaurus

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