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Artificial intelligence.


That last 20% is where it will struggle. If you order a burger and it's 75% as good as standard are you going back? Getting that last little bit over the top that takes something from terrible to good is really hard. Even more for that last 5%. To get something truly excellent is very very difficult.
 

In the last Hollywood union strike and dispute about a year or two ago, for actors and writers and other Hollywood types, not using AI to substitute for screenwriting and acting is part of their new contract.
 
The general public won't bee able to discern that last 20%. And as far as hamburgers are concerned, a burger is near the bottom of the food chain. Does 75% really mean anything?
 
Pieter12 said:
The general public won't bee able to discern that last 20%. And as far as hamburgers are concerned, a burger is near the bottom of the food chain. Does 75% really mean anything?
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I know people like to trash the general public but the general public does not like mediocrity in the long run.

gbroadbridge said:
Ask McDonalds.
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I ain't ever had a McD's or any big chain fast food burger in my life. It's just the way it is. However I've had some truly awful burgers. If a joint can't get a burger right then they can't get anything right.
 
Cholentpot said:
If a joint can't get a burger right then they can't get anything right.
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See above. Sadly, a large segment of the population will eat what is available and they can afford, another (college students?) will eat whatever they can in large quantities. Taste be damned.
 
Pieter12 said:
I wouldn't be so sure about that, judging from popular culture.
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Pop culture these days doesn't really pay much attention to what people want. They just shovel out junk until they're forced to change. Have another super hero movie!
 
Cholentpot said:
Pop culture these days doesn't really pay much attention to what people want. They just shovel out junk until they're forced to change. Have another super hero movie!
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"They" wouldn't shovel out junk if people weren't gladly consuming it in large quantities.
 
Pieter12 said:
"They" wouldn't shovel out junk if people weren't gladly consuming it in large quantities.
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People are consuming it at what looks like amazing amounts until an actual genuine blockbuster comes out and then you see what the true public purchasing power is. We're applying 1990's numbers to 2026. There are more people now, larger demographics to market too. The risks are bigger so production companies play it safe. Think of media cornerstones that are gone now that were here 25-30 years ago. Many of those mediums didn't need to die, they just refused to shift to public tastes.
 
What's wrong with McD? While I wouldn't suggest that anyone live off a diet of highly processed food-like substances (he said, while munching on Doritos), it beats starving. I think there's something very USAmerican about looking at food from the perspective of logistics, branding, franchising, precise standardization, and the efficiencies of mass-production techniques.
 

People that have never gone hungry or had to eat truly substandard food like to trash American fast food. I don't eat it but I don't look down on it. It's clean, high quality, relatively cheap and available. It's also highly regulated.

The same people that trash McDonalds are the people that get all misty eyed and fall over themselves for street food served off a shopping card grill left out in the open for hours at a time.
 

Fast food in general was much better in the 90s and earlier. Cleaner establishments, more care taken in preparation, and most importantly, it was significantly below the cost of sit-down restaurants. Now I can go to a local small business that makes some of the best burgers around and pay only slightly more than what a fast food meal costs. They seem to be riding on previous success and habituation of the consumer at this point.
 
So you’re saying month-old hot dog water from a cart isn’t a delicacy?
 
The Varsity drive-in restaurant in Atlanta serves approximately 25,000 meals a day including 2 miles of hot dogs, 300 gallons of chilli, a ton of onion rings, 2500 pounds of potatoes, 5000 fruit turnovers plus many gallons of their famous frosted orange drink. They have been in business since 1928.
While it’s no doubt not the healthiest meal by any means if you’re ever there a chilli dog, onion rings and a frosted orange drink to wash it down is an experience. Just don’t tell your cardiologist.
 

Sounds awesome!!!
 
This AI crap is just the latest. If we allow are selves to become stooges so be it!

Decouple and get outside with a film camera. I'm going now.
 
In an interesting twist, some illustrators and fine artists are turning to AI to generate models and scenes to paint from.
 

Sounds great. My craving is for White Castles and their onion rings and fries. Been eating them for over 70 years. Still kicking. Well, I have had a triple bypass 6 years ago.
 
Oh man, White Castle. My parents had no love for the place which is probably why I cling to a hazily half-remembered over enjoyment. Minneapolis is where I could get some.

As to AI. I really like what i am hearing regarding data sorting/logging searching. I can only imagine there needs to be some humans overseeing to dirve the bus, but think of what research budgets could be re directed to maybe have a pair of people checking in on the computers mining for how many middle fingers were amputated as a result of car crash in 1952?
Yes, that is very random.
Yes, someone would first need to digitize whatever those appropriate records were, but that to me is the useful side of AI, and AI visual art, AI music, Ai full cotent is cool from a computer science angle, it's just a weird blip on my radar at this point.
 

Walmart and Target sells White Castles. Maybe you can pick up some at their stores.
 
ABBA sang Money Money Money ….

Ai is about nothing but money, in its every application. It’s a primitive way to enhance our live, and what sells progresses, takes over, and then … it is over. Humans will have become robots of their own making.
 
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