Overlooking Shinjuku

Less than 168 hours since Photoshop dropped the new 'Generative Fill' feature.

The demos that people are sharing are nuts.

7 jaw-dropping examples:

So we changed to the bougie hotel that shared the building with our first. Here is a panoramic from the 44th floor of this place also in Shinjuku’s Tokyu Kabukichō Tower, and a non-panoramic angled shot downward to give a better perspective on the height.

Need to go somewhere on the subway? Take that open can of beer underground with you and ride to your heart’s content.

Just be courteous and take your can with you, disposing of it once you find a recycle bin somewhere. Don’t leave your bullshit behind for others to clean up.

“bUt ThErE iS nO pRoOf tHaT mAsKs LiMiT tHe SpReAd Of tHe CoRoNaViRuS”

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Acyn When you right you right!

Neguse: Do you know when he submitted the budget? 
Smith: I don’t remember 
Neguse: March 9. 
Smith: It was late. 
Neguse: When did Republicans submit their budget?

I think most people (quite reasonably) think 'We built ChatGPT, so we must basically understand how it works'
This is not true at all. Humans did not build ChatGPT. In a way it would be closer to say we 'grew' it. We have basically no idea how it does what it does.

Their results are bizarre and inhuman. Neel Nanda trained a tiny transformer to do addition, then spent weeks figuring out what it was doing - one of the only times in history someone has understood how a transformer works.
This is the algorithm it created. To *add two numbers*!

Apparently the washing machine in our hotel runs Linux. The regular software crashed and it dropped us to an XFCE GUI.

Sigh. I and everyone else are officially out, now.

Sorry. Good luck with whatever reflection direction you pick. Maybe I'll be able to help in 2026 or something.

The irony is not lost on me that some people in America see you as the anti-Christ for masking up in public, where wearing a mask in Japan has recently become a fashion. Especially for teenagers.

Learned from my niece it’s now a thing here.

I fucked around and found out (busted my ass)