It is great to solve "puzzle" problems and remove road blocks. In the past, whenever I got stuck, I often got frustrated and gave up. In so many cases AI hints to the corret solution and helps me continue. It's like a knowledgeable colleague that you can ask for help when you get stuck.
Another thing is auditing and code polishing. I asked Claude to polish a working, but still rough browser pluging, consisting of two simple Javascript files. It took ten iterations and a full day of highly intensive work to get the quality I wanted. I would say the result is good, but I could not do this process vey often without going insane. And I do not want to do this with a more complex project, yet.
So, yes, I am using it. For me it's a tool, knowledge resource, puzzle solver, code reviewer and source for inspiration. It's not a robot to write my code.
It's both. Of course the massively shrinking share of the Chinese market is a big chunk of the problem. But the whole mindset here in Germany is completely delusional with the idea to be leaders in environmental technology and sustainability solutions.
My favorite example of this delusion is Porsche who somehow thought that selling their bread-and-butter model Macan exclusively as an EV was a good idea. I still cannot understand how they arrived at this decision.
The problem is that this will only work in one direction. You can calculate the stimulation of the photoreceptors for a certain spectrum, but not the other way around. For example the eye cannot distinguish between purple light consisting of one specific wavelength and purble light mixed by red and blue wavelengths, because both give the same stimulation of the receptors. So there is an infinite number of possible spectra for any given stimulation of the photoreceptors. All we can do is take the stimulation values (X, Y and Z) and convert from there to all kinds of color models and back.
Your approach would make a lot of sense for sensors that are full spectrum analyzers, but the eye isn't one.
Yes because it's not a one to one map we cannot invert the map uniquely. But that's ok, we can maintain a distribution over the possible frequencities consistent with the response. That's how it's done in other areas of mathematics where similar non-bijections arise.
Much thanks for answering though, because I suspect I am asking a very basic question.
You're correct, for what it's worth. I too have always wished that light was modeled based on physics, not on how humans happen to see.
Unfortunately the problem is data acquisition (cameras), and data creation (artists). You need lots of data to figure out e.g. what a certain metal's spectrum is, and it's not nearly as clear-cut as just painting RGB values onto a box in a game engine.
For better or worse, all our tools are set up to work in RGB, regardless of the color space you happen to be using. So your physics-based approach would have the monumental task of redefining how to create a texture in Photoshop, and how to specify a purple light in a game engine.
I think the path toward actual photorealism is to use ML models. They should be able to take ~any game engine's rendered frame as input, and output something closer to what you'd see in real life. And I'm pretty sure it can be done in realtime, especially if you're using a GAN based approach instead of diffusion models.
No need for ML. This already exists, the keyword to look for is "spectral rendering".
To add to the general thread: the diverse color spaces are there to answer questions that inherently involve how a typical human sees colors, so they _have_ to include biology, that's their whole point. For example:
- I want objects of a specific color (because of branding), how to communicate that to contractors, and how to check it?
- What's a correct processing chain from capturing an image to display/print, that guarantees that the image will look the same on all devices?
Local LLMs. Lots of people buy Macs due to their unified memory which obviates the need to buy a much more expensive GPU to get the same amount of VRAM.
Private AI assistants will be a big thing. You don't want to send all your private data they have access to to a cloud AI API provider. You shouldn't, anyway.
Of course the robots have been pre-trained and the movements are scripted, and nobody is claiming otherwise. But there must be a lot of autonomous balancing taking place. At one point you can see the robots adjusting their feet slightly different although they are all in sync, and that catapult does not look like its movement is exactly the same every time. It is just super impressive.
Does anyone remember when Honda's Asimo robot clumsily fell down the stairs during a demonstration[1] and we thought we were safe from a robot invasion by just moving to the upper floor? That was about 20 years ago.
30%. But it brought tons of word of mouth and such after the ball got rolling so the total affiliate commission compared to our revenue lifetime is closer to 10-15%
This was probably meant in a sarcastic way, but isn't it impressive how you cannot push Gemini off track? I tried another prompt with claiming that one of my cups does not work, because it is closed at the top and open at the bottom, and it kind of played with me, giving me a funny technical explanation on how to solve that problem and finally asking me if that was a trick question.
That may be quite close to the truth. Here are pictures from some abandones pavilions from the 2000 World Expo in Hannover. Sad to see this, as I lived in Hannover at that time and had a really good time at the Expo.
If you compare Norway to other countries, you should always keep in mind that Norway is just blessed with energy. They have more hydropower than they consume, so electrifying everything just makes sense, even if you ignore consequences for climate and environment. They also have their own oil, and electrification will also allow them to sell more of it abroad or keep in the ground for future generations.
However, it also helps that they are good at long term planning.
Also, outside of the zone of influence of an imperialist authoritarian power which would prevent them from handling the exploitation of their resources for the benefit of their nation instead of the profit of foreign oligarchs. See Petro-Canada privatization.
Another thing is auditing and code polishing. I asked Claude to polish a working, but still rough browser pluging, consisting of two simple Javascript files. It took ten iterations and a full day of highly intensive work to get the quality I wanted. I would say the result is good, but I could not do this process vey often without going insane. And I do not want to do this with a more complex project, yet.
So, yes, I am using it. For me it's a tool, knowledge resource, puzzle solver, code reviewer and source for inspiration. It's not a robot to write my code.
And never trust it blindly!
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