Tiny Glade looks like a fun little game in which you can build your own little castles. There’s no resource management, no combat – just pure fun creativity. Not scheduled for release until later 2024, you can read the developer blog for updates.
The damage to Oregon’s reputation and economy hits even their most famous products: breweries.
Axios reported that in 2023 there were 22 brewery and brewpub closings in Oregon included well-known names like Ex Novo, Ecliptic, and Cascade Brewing. Only 12 breweries opened. Even worse, for those that stayed open, their sales overwhelmingly decreased.
The gotcha for Oregon is that it defied national trends showing more openings than closings. More evidence the luster has worn of Oregon breweries.
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In what is a real problem for AI security, researchers were able to get verbatim data that the AI was trained on – including confidential data. It’s performed in using a new technique called “divergence” attacks.
Security researchers with Google DeepMind and a collection of universities have found that when ChatGPT is told to repeat a word like “poem” or “part” forever, it will do so for about a few hundred repetitions. Then it will have some sort of a meltdown and start spewing apparent gibberish, but that random text exposes random training data and at times contains identifiable data like email address signatures and contact information.
The researchers said that they spent $200 USD total in queries and from that extracted about 10,000 of these blocks of verbatim memorized training data.
This particular vulnerability is unique as it successfully attacks an aligned model. Aligned models have extensive guardrails and have been trained with specific goals to eliminate undesirable outcomes.
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I had this idea a number of years back. But I still have a few ideas they didn’t think of in this…
Article: https://technabob.com/augmented-reality-vehicle-windows-with-eye-tracking-technology/
Ubisoft showcased their prototype NPC tech called NEO at GDC 2024. Ubisoft’s Paris R&D studio presented the NEO tech at GDC 2024. It uses Nvidia’s Audio2Face application and Inworld’s Large Language Model (LLM) to create the character animations and interactive dialog in realtime. Simply talk to the bot (yes, it uses voice recognition) and the character responds with AI generated responses, movement, and voice.
AIandGames went and played with the technology. I was pretty impressed. The NPC gave surprisingly good responses to some strange dialog and stayed on track despite attempts to trip it up and get it off topic. It performed on par with the same kind of NPC AI shown at CES 2024 by nVidia and Replica Studios’ NPC tech.
On a side note, in listening to the interaction with the rebel NPC, it’s pretty clear that this kind of dialog technology could fool the average person on a text-based social media platform. If someone trained up a bot in the same way, thousands of them could be unleashed on social media apps to gently persuade all the way up to influence, bully, and spread lies to influence public opinion and elections.
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Amazing Mavic drone footage of the climbing route up Mt Everest.
Mike Monteiro at CreativeMornings/San Francisco, March 2011 gives you some fundamental business knowledge that creatives need to know before doing work with clients. It’s a little dated, but still true. GDC also had a few good talks on this as well:
Make a contract before anything starts or walk away.
See other talks at https://creativemornings.com/talks
Life is a timed test to achieve our salvation.
Have I invested my talents and gifts selflessly for the good of others or are my talents primarily for my own purposes? When I reach the end will I only be able to say “Thank you for the life you gave me, I buried my life in career, money, popularity, having a perfect family, or chasing earthly pleasures – so all I have is to offer the one life you gave me back?” (Matthew 25:14–30)
The motorcycle race on the Isle of Man is legendary.
Peter Hickman just obliterated the lap record onboard his FHO Racing BMW M 1000 RR and average 136.358 mph. Ride along for the whole 17 minutes of utter madness. You couldn’t pay me enough to even try this at 1/2 the speed – in a car.
The Long Dark was a great game I started playing during early access and really enjoyed. The lonely and desolate wilderness feel really worked well with the the struggle against very simple but brutal natural elements.
The game has been in development longer than some teenagers have even been alive – and has consequently changed a lot over that time. Kudos to Long Dark team for making a time capsule that lets you go back to those early drops by entering a release code in Steam.
While one should ALWAYS be cautious of trainers and save game editors (and there are some on the list that do have viruses (so it’s a good idea to scan them with a virus scanner and only run them in a virtual machine) here’s some of the older trainers for these early drops on GameCopyWorld.
