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  • gmtom@lemmy.worldtoUplifting News@lemmy.world•Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027English
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    13 days ago

    Educated guess:

    1. To allow the supply chain to adjust so we don’t cause a sudden shortage skyrocketing the price of solar, making homes more expensive to build or delaying construction

    2. A lot of new build are basically copy pastes of the same design, so companies have time to properly adjust designs for them and not just haphazardly slap them on to existing ones which could cause problems

    3. Red tape and Bureaucracy. Updating laws and regulation takes time, then there’s risk assessments environmental planning, maybe adjustments to the grid layout on new estates.

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•why is it that the USA holds such power over the world now and not the UK who histrionically dominated most of it?
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    14 days ago

    I don’t want to go into a big long thesis so I’ll try to summize.

    America, now firmly cemented in its boarders, fully federalised and with a wealth of natural resources and ballooning population was becoming a big power by the start of the 20th century and American politicians were putting in considerable effort into undermining the big European powers, but especially Britain.

    The British empire being so spread out made it hard to defend and control. So with Britain and it’s colonies fighting on every front for the whole length of the war Britain lost many colonial holdings in Asia.

    Those colonies also paid a heavy price in the fighting and independent movements flourished after the war and Britain didn’t have the money or political will the fight them, so the empire dissolved.

    America was able to use its war economy to massively ramp up its domestic manufacturing.

    They were also able to use their position as financers and occupiers in Europe and Asia to extend considerable American influence to those regions. And also Latin America and the Caribbean. Giving American companies influence over much of the world without the obligations the British Empire had.

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.world•Spend money and consume!English
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    1 month ago

    Art is a form of communication, transmitting something from one mind to another using indirect means because telepathy isn’t available. AI is not trying to communicate anything.

    That’s like saying photography isn’t art because a camera isn’t trying to communicate something. Like AI it’s a tool uses by people to convey that idea.

    Like when I use AI generation, I have an idea or specific image in my head and I do my best to come up with a prompt that will produce what I want, or more usually, I use photoshop, so piece piece several pieces together and edit it a bit so the match is more accurate. At a fundamental level, if you consciously try to clear your mind of any existing biases regarding AI, then it’s not really any different to photography or photoshop as an artform.

    AI images hit the uncanny valley for artists because they are attuned to the difference between what an art is supposed to look like vs what the imitator approximates.

    That is a somewhat valid point, but there are AI models for specific tasks, say generating human faces, that co trolled experiments have found that people can’t distinguish between the AI content and the real thing. There is also plenty of traditional art that hits the uncanny valley or simply doesn’t look right, but that doesn’t make it any less art, does it?

    Because he is ‘fluent’ in art, people take his words on art seriously, just as one would generally take a born-and-raised German’s words seriously regarding German grammar.

    Good analogy, but there’s still a barrier between the type of art miyazaki is fluent in and AI art. Like imagine a British person saying your English is wrong because you’re using American English or AAVE. Would you take them as an expert because and denounce those variations because they are not British English? Or would you consider their ignorance of the other side limiting to their expertise?

    And also, I feel I should add, Miyazaki is famously not a fan of digital art. Should we take him as an expert on art and view digital art as less than traditional art? Or should we just roll our eyes at the stubborn old man stuck in his ways?

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.world•Spend money and consume!English
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    1 month ago

    Except how AI works is pretty crucial to the entire anti-AI argument.

    The amount of people that claim AI just collages together pieces of existing “stolen” art and use that as an argument against AI is ridiculous.

    And your CPU example isn’t great since you would be comparing CPUs to other CPUs, it would be more apt to talk about someone who doesn’t know how a computer works to demonise computers in general and advocate doing maths by hand instead.