On its face the internet seems like a powerful organisation tool, but in reality it's quite bad. These online movements are often so large and prone to in-fighting that no real leadership ever emerges, so they never figure out what their actual demands are. They're good at producing public backlash and getting brands to take down their content, but not much else.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3UzW1aJXRUw

I guess they're just doing research for fun then.

This is unfortunate, because a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI. It's important that we are all ready to hand over our data for the good of the human race. Concerns about "privacy" are secondary. History will look poorly on Brazilians for this.

I think I'm the opposite. My feeling is that anything I type into ChatGPT gets stored in a database, ready to be leaked at some future date, or read by prying eyes without my knowledge. I'm more careful about what I type into it than what I say out loud in front of my friends.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid?

It's possible you're placing too much emphasis on the type of problem you need to solve. You might be trying to think of a problem that many people experience, or a problem that others recognise as important, and getting frustrated that you don't have any ideas.

If this is the case, I'd recommend making something for one person instead. Make something stupid, that only a single person in your life will enjoy. Programming doesn't have to be Amazon or Netflix. Programming can be a knitted scarf.

I've tried it in the past after reading a blog post about its effectiveness. I am yet to receive a response.

What are your thoughts on Qanon and Pizzagate?

Echo chambers exist on both sides. It's human nature to align yourself with a tribe and denounce everything that goes against it. Most people just don't have the self awareness to notice when it's happening to them.

The paper doesn't show topology, UVs or the output texture, so we're left to assume the models look something like what you'd find when using photogrammetry: triangulated blobs with highly segmented UV islands and very large textures. Fine for background elements in a 3D render, but unsuitable for use in a game engine or real-time pipeline.

In my job I've sometimes been given 3D scans and asked to include them in a game. They require extensive cleanup to become usable, if you care about visual quality and performance at all.

What about all the people here who were claiming GPT-4 had become an essential part of their developer job?

They seem to have gone quiet recently, but they must still be here.