I'm not a fan of AI and the massive changes it will bring to the world, but positive and negative. I've been highly suspicious of Google AI because, to date, the returns I've been getting were pretty poor. Garbage in, garbage out, that sort of thing. But of late, the AI-generated search results have improved markedly. Here are the results of a search looking for information on optimal moisture level for aging tobacco. it's impressive, and cites PipesMagazine and Pease.
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It makes sense, since Kevin has spent years keeping Pipesmagazine at the top of every search for pipes and tobacco. But, I just hope they aren't formulating results based on our discussions here, ha ha.
I learn something I didn’t know or forgot every single day on this forum!
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You can test tobacco moisture by rolling it into a ball. If it shatters, it's too dry. If it's too wet, it will just lie there lifeless.
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A man with fifty pounds minus a couple of Buoy Gold surely is in desperate need of that test.
That’s how Mattie Ross knew!
Just about a half gram, a pinch, and in the palm of your hand, make a tiny ball, and when you roll it the makings either shatter into tiny pieces or lays there lifeless. But if it’s good, it expands and grows.
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You can test tobacco moisture by rolling it into a ball. If it shatters, it's too dry. If it's too wet, it will just lie there lifeless.
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A man with fifty pounds minus a couple of Buoy Gold surely is in desperate need of that test.
That’s how Mattie Ross knew!
Just about a half gram, a pinch, and in the palm of your hand, make a tiny ball, and when you roll it the makings either shatter into tiny pieces or lays there lifeless. But if it’s good, it expands and grows.
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All of this AI evangelizing reminds me of the evangelizing of digital technology in the early 90’s, a lot of promise down the road and very mixed results in the present.
The bit about packing mixed up packing and pressing to make flakes and plugs.
Enjoy AI, but don’t accept it uncritically.
The bit about packing mixed up packing and pressing to make flakes and plugs.
Enjoy AI, but don’t accept it uncritically.
I know it’s extremely important who manufactures artificial intelligence, don’t you?
They’d better have a very good book as their guidepost.
AI companies have stolen thousands of copyrighted materials to use in “training” their tech while claiming that they didn’t. A thick headed judge granted them “fair use” protections, though that’s being appealed.
Artists posting their work on line are now embedding their images with software designed to make it invisible to AI.
AI may have stolen the materials, but Russian and China already had the materials.
Tell me about it. My copyrighted restoration of the pre WW1 Barling catalog was published on line by some jerk in China.
First, you lull them into complacency with warm & fuzzy little AI's.... they're just widdle bunny wabbits! Why does it matter if they're electronic?
Then, after the meats are all comfy and paying attention to other things...
Then, after the meats are all comfy and paying attention to other things...
Artificial intelligence is sort of like atomic bombs.
We cannot disinvent either one, the genie is out of the bottle.
The decent people must out think the evil ones.
Critical thinking has never been more important.
Fake news or real?
Check Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
It’s real.
Real people edit Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
We cannot disinvent either one, the genie is out of the bottle.
The decent people must out think the evil ones.
Critical thinking has never been more important.
Fake news or real?
Check Wikipedia
Stella Goldschlag - Wikipedia
It’s real.
Real people edit Wikipedia