Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/10/25 4:50 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

And here we are now with AI.  Depending on how you count this is the third
cycle of promising the world, falling on your ass, and going back to the
drawing board for a decade or two.

 This is the truth! I wonder how spectacular the crash will be? What gives me
hope is that all of the AI startups, sucking in billions are private. I hope
that this will shield the stock market _somewhat_ from the worst effects of
collapse.

   Yesterday, kinda-broke France put 100 billion into 'AI'.
   Modern "AI" does have its uses, but also seems to have
   limitations that will cap its utility. Not sure the
   current approaches will ever graduate from "AI" to "EI".
   Of course MAYBE that's a good thing ...

Today I heard about the first EB opportunity in storage. I remember when I sold
my first PB deal, and I thought that was incredible. Today, the first EB
opportunity. I hope I will get the chance to sell a EB solution. That would be
nice! =D
 

But, it all started with a branch of psychology: how does that wetware
work?

   You want "physiological psychology", not the freshman-friendly
   Psych-101.
   To emulate the wetware you need something a lot like neural
   networks. This may not be the best way - Nature made do with
   what it had - but there may be some functional equations
   hidden down in all that goo which can be used effectively.
   NNs are 'getting better', after a LONG time, but LLMs were
   the 'easier' faster way to get pretend IQ so that's where
   the money went.
   I've always been impressed with things like baby cows
   and horses and even elephants. They pop out and within
   an hour are trotting around and acting all appropriate.
   Where did human ancestors go wrong ??? Elephants are
   smart large-brained critters too - not like 'born ready'
   is limited to pinheaded things. NNs should aim at being
   E-lephants when you press the "ON" button, with a lot
   of How To and How To Do Better already burned in there.
   Current NNs ... well ... we're MISSING SOMETHING, some
   kind of "it" ... and clearly it's not easy to identify.
   Hmmmm ... idea ... put the LLMs onto improving NNs  :-)
   Maybe LLMs don't have the tilt/bias/blindspot that keeps
   us from seeing how to make NNs great ? LLMs might be
   able to do 1000 years worth of experimental tweaks
   over a long weekend and eval the results.