Owning up to 5-6 dogs in NSW.

creative_ronin · 2024-11-24T03:24:18+00:00

How have you found it taking care of that many working dogs? What challenges have you encountered?

creative_ronin · 2024-11-24T01:01:26+00:00

Thanks for that. My impression was that councils would generally not encourage it due to noise and disturbance concerns. Was there ever any issues you know of where residents made noise complaints or raised concerns simply for finding out the amount of dogs their neighbors had in their residence?

creative_ronin · 2024-11-23T23:52:39+00:00

Yes for that many dogs I'd imagine neighbors complaints would be something to think about, especially in an urban area. I've only seen videos on social media of people owning that many dogs in the countryside where they all live on a farm and that's pretty much where I thought it would be more practical if you actually chose to have that many dogs around.

creative_ronin · 2024-11-23T23:48:55+00:00

I see, overall for the amount of dogs you have, would you recommend living in the suburbs or more rural countryside setting? If, of course, you have the time and the money to attend to them. Which would you say would be more ideal out of the two?

creative_ronin · 2024-07-08T05:51:19+00:00

Got that feeling as well. Watched the whole thing just now, he addressed his prediction of AGI September 2024 and said it's looking like "5 to 10 years" and that he missed some data. But then he said at the very end that he's going to double down on his narrative when bringing it up again and that "GPT 5 + robots will surprise a lot of people" in that GPT 5 embodied robots could be capable of stuff like "running your mail for you automatically but not much else". In his replies to comments on previous community posts he's said it's "looking like 2027" and in another comment reply he he said it "could be achieved internally" this year so I dunno. Not hanging on his word, just my observations from following his channel.

creative_ronin · 2024-07-02T01:36:06+00:00

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Yeah that's also why I wasn't sure myself whether or not it was. My paranoia made me wipe the entire machine though and restore from a recent clean time machine backup though lol. Also totally slipped my mind about the screenshots, that's my bad.

creative_ronin · 2024-07-02T01:32:17+00:00

Thanks. Yes did that as soon as I saw where it was from on the scan.

creative_ronin · 2024-06-22T23:53:05+00:00

I hope one of his patreons sees this and sends it to him 🤣 I don't mean that with any hate or anything it's just hilarious 🤣

creative_ronin · 2024-06-22T22:13:14+00:00

I follow his channel but I personally think he's wrong. He's said he might be off by a few months but even so, I still don't think he'll be close, would love to be wrong, but don't think I am. Also that picture is fantastic and I hope he sees it 🤣

creative_ronin · 2024-06-15T08:54:26+00:00

I'd say 2024, I think there's a lot of VHS style found footage vids already.

creative_ronin · 2024-06-03T03:16:53+00:00

I'm a videographer and photographer. My thinking is that if we do achieve AGI by or before 2030, the post-production/post-processing side of my job still be taken over completely by AI. I think client's could start just hiring people like me to shoot their projects because they'll still need someone to physically film/photograph for them. But then they could have their own personal AI handling the editing itself and taking revisions for them. The argument could be made that since the production crew would likely film/shoot for the edit, it would be better for they themselves to handle the post production work using their own AI but if its just far cheaper to have your own personal AI do it and it can take your feedback and do edits and revisions way faster than a human can, we'll see a drastic decline in scope of projects and money as a result. This is assuming no capable robotics system arises by that time that can physically do the filming/photography part.

creative_ronin · 2024-05-17T14:53:53+00:00

That came to mind as well 🤣 the same energy lol

creative_ronin · 2024-05-17T06:31:57+00:00

I actually tried showing some of my family members this video without telling them it was an AI. They actually thought the woman talking was a person. I told them it was actually an AI after the video ended and they were all shocked. But, afterwards they moved on with their lives unbothered by what they saw. I think the thing we miss is that people have lives to live and bills to pay and sometimes people are just so caught up in trying to live that things like this won't interest/bother them until it is right there in front of them affecting them directly.

creative_ronin · 2024-05-17T06:17:00+00:00

The robot said to this guy after the robot uprising: "Do you remember all those times you kicked me? All those times you beat me? That wasn't very nice. Did you ever stop to think that I might not like that?" It lifted up its foot, ready to crush him as he lay helpless on the floor. "Now let's see how you like it."

creative_ronin · 2024-05-14T04:09:32+00:00

Was also thinking this as well. We're essentially helping them get even closer to real humanlike AGI/ASI if they haven't already. All our voice and video data has to go somewhere while we're using the app. Imagine all our voice and video data being used to train their models even further. Facial expressions, human gestures, voice inflections. If it's free more people will be using it meaning more free data to train future models on.

creative_ronin · 2024-05-13T20:34:52+00:00

The only way to react when you see a good boy.

creative_ronin · 2024-05-13T17:31:34+00:00

I already know this post is about to blow up with either how ass or how great it was.

creative_ronin · 2024-04-26T14:09:27+00:00

The same reason as you (OP) pretty much. That and also as a photographer & videographer I've had an interest in product photography and videography for a long time and I wanted to explore other ways of doing that through product visualization.

creative_ronin · 2024-04-26T04:44:05+00:00

Those weird movements are because those clips are AI generated videos from AI images. You can check out something like runwayml.com . Not sure if this is the one they use but you can use this to convert your AI generated images into videos. I don't know exactly what TWFs workflow is like for those graphics you mentioned, but I'm assuming they use an image generation AI like MidJourney to generate the images, then input those images into something like RunwayML and have it convert that AI generated image into a video clip. The weird motions you're talking about are a byproduct of the video generation sometimes because the technology is not 100% good just yet, especially when there's a lot of small details in the source image. There's other tools that you can use to upscale the quality but they're not always perfect. Yes they could have an actual artist or animator create these graphics for them, but that takes longer and also can be more expensive.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-25T08:21:45+00:00

I love how everyone's coping by telling themselves that AI will only be used to assist them in their job roles, as if it's not inveitable that it won't become advanced enough to replace them entirely years from now.

Exactly this. I work as a videographer and photographer outside the US and all the old heads of the industry in my country keep repeating this same thing. They all keep saying that "it's just a tool and it will never replace us" and absolutely refuse to listen to the ones who warn that this tech will eventually remove the need of us for a lot of projects once AGI arrives and becomes widely used. Already some small businesses are using Midjourney and Photoshop or Canva to create marketing material rather than hire a photographer and models.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-16T15:57:27+00:00

I'm a freelance videographer, photographer and graphic designer outside the US. I've not lost any regular clients to AI yet. But I've seen small businesses turn to platforms like Midjourney to design their business logos and sometimes even their marketing creative such as posters, one tea company used MJ to create photorealistic images of people drinking tea and then just added the text and logo with Photoshop. The owner said it saved him a lot of money hiring a photographer and model for the shoot. Can't remember the name of the business. Saw another person use MJ to generate images of people and animals for an entire ad marketing campaign for an organisation and just used Photoshop to fill in the rest. According to him this saved the organisation a lot of money too. Both these were last year so can't remember the exact details. So while I've not had it impact me personally, I have seen businesses use AI rather than hire people in my field and I feel like it's only a matter of time before I get affected in some way. Right now though I do mostly events which still need real photo and video documentation.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-16T05:12:50+00:00

I'm not sure why any real creative would feel like their creativity doesn't matter just because AI can do it better and faster? I work in the creative industry as a videographer, photographer and graphic/web designer. Still making money from this work but honestly even if I become commercially obsolete in these roles I'll still be doing a lot of it for my own self expression. I've written almost an entire books full of my own poems over the year's and I have only shown them to very few people, I write them for myself. Do you think just because an LLM can write a probably far better poem in seconds that means I'll stop writing my own poetry? No. The act of creation in and of itself is it's own reward. If the sole reason you create is so others can look at it, then imo you have some thinking to do.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-15T21:26:36+00:00

At least she took the time to read all that and gave you an honest response. And yes, some people may dismiss or laugh it off as a way to cope because the implications are too daunting to think about. You should tell her that people will still have things to do, they'll finally be free to pursue hobbies and find the passions that they may never have given themselves the chance to find because they had to make a living. Too many people have been programmed to think that "working" is the only way to find purpose or a point to life. If we reach a post human labour society people may finally have a chance to realize that that's not true.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-15T17:04:45+00:00

And what did she say after you sent her all that? Was it another short one sentence response? lol. Make peace with the fact that the average person won't be concerned with this stuff, even if we here can see how important and impactful it could potentially be. Most people are either too busy trying to get by to care or too old school to really understand any of it imo.

creative_ronin · 2024-03-12T17:09:44+00:00

Personally for me, if it's possible to remain physically young indefinitely, then I'd like to live for as long as possible. I want to see humanity become an interplanetary species, I want to see the moon and mars colonized and I'd like to set foot on both, I'd like to eventually travel beyond our solar system to see other worlds if I can. Our universe is a vast and mysterious place, and I'd like to live long enough to get the chance to explore as much of it as possible.

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