Malimber

@AlboMP What will happen is you will crash the market, institutional and foreign investors will sweep up and double rents because they will control supply. But you knew that already didn't you. It's why you've been importing them at record rates.

We're changing property investor tax breaks to give first home buyers a fair go.

@GrgiekbltVT I cant stand the smell of weirdly

Ask my close friends I always ask for at least 20 of these fuckers. Seriously my favorite thing to order from a fish and chips shop 🤤

@cixliv Half a million dollars for a mech that can't do anything useful

You guys aren't going to believe this (I had to double check it was real). Unitree has made an actual mecha like Gundam, the GD01.

@itsolelehmann Ok get rid of the music. You would hear all those servos.

Ex Machina is no longer sci-fi. China has finally built it. The company is AheadForm, founded in Shanghai. The product is the world's most hyper-realistic robotic face. Silicone skin you can't tell from human, 25 micro motors hidden underneath pulling the face into real expressions. And RGB cameras embedded inside the pupils so when it looks at you, it actually sees you from where its eyes are. They raised $28.5M to "give AI a head," which is also where the name comes from. AheadForm = a head form. This is the opposite of where everyone else in robotics is focused. Unitree, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics: all about the body. AheadForm chose the face because they think trust is the harder problem to solve, and trust gets decided at the face. The reason nobody else has tried this is the "uncanny valley." It's the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can't say why. Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it. So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic. But AheadForm decided to treat it as an engineering bug instead. Add enough motors, tune the silicone, fix the timing, the valley closes. And they're pulling it off. A few crazy details about how this actually works: 1. The robot learns its own face in a mirror. You put it in front of a camera, let it fire every motor randomly, and it watches what its face does and builds an internal map of "if I send command X to motor Y, my eyebrow does this." Same exact process a human baby uses staring into a mirror. The robot teaches itself who it is by experimenting. 2. It predicts your smile 839 milliseconds before you smile. By watching the micro-tells in your face that precede a smile, the robot starts smiling 0.8 seconds ahead, so its smile lands at the same moment yours does. Most robot mimicry happens half a second late, which is exactly why it always feels artificial. 3. The pupils are the cameras. When the robot makes eye contact, the gaze and the sensor are the same physical thing. Most humanoid robots stick the camera on the forehead or chest, so they aren't actually looking at you when their eyes are pointed at you. 4. The founder, Yuhang Hu, did his PhD at Columbia under Hod Lipson. Lipson is the guy who in 2006 built a four-legged robot that figured out it had four legs by experimenting with its own movement, nobody told it the body shape, it discovered it. He has spent 25 years trying to build machines that know what they are. AheadForm is that 25-year research arc productized. 5. NetEase Games already paid them to physically embody a fantasy video game character. That opens up a brand-new category: robotics as the physical embodiment of fictional IP. Every character-rich studio, Disney, Riot, Hoyoverse, Pokemon, Netflix, now has a question to answer about when their characters get bodies. AheadForm believes whoever ships the first robot you'd actually want around your family wins. That's the bet behind the most realistic robot face on earth.

@Spectralyzed And he was a miserable psychotic who ended himself penniless. I don't think that's the win you think it is.

@malimber01 Key word that you added there was "professional". Not every artist makes art their profession, but it's still art, in spite of you. Oh, and if we're listing famous artists, Vincent van Gogh hardly sold any of his paintings, and now they're some of the most valuable in the world

If you’re bad at drawing the only way to get better is to keep drawing. Using Gen AI doesn’t make you an artist

@Spectralyzed Art is absolutely about getting paid. Do you think the Mona Lisa or the Sistine chapel where done for free? Professional artists moan about the "inspiration" but if they aren't getting paid art aint getting done.

@malimber01 You misunderstand me- art isn't just about getting paid, you know. I do think artists should get paid, but art won't just die off because it's not making money. I sculpt, paint, photograph, and animate because I enjoy doing it, and I'm certainly not the only one.

@Spectralyzed Your mistake is thinking art is special and unique. Its not. The bulk of commissions may feel that way, but if the buyer can get it close enough for a 10th of the price and a third of the time, "artists" loose. Every time.

@malimber01 See, but the flaw in that plan is that artists don't rely on the continued existence of a clearly struggling business venture... AI depends on the companies that run them, art just depends on people existing and creating. And that's pretty inspiring, if you ask me.

@CleaverKnight @TheMG3D They dont need to outlast the market, they just need to outlast you..

@malimber01 @TheMG3D Here’s a reality here: the ai generated “art” industry is only able to exist based on the existence of the software. If the company that owns the software shuts it down, ai generated “art” shuts down. Ai companies are making 0 profits. They require subsidies in order to exist.

@TheMG3D Its kind of middle of the road, sometimes it gives you exactly what you want (or close enough) other times Ive had to wrestle with it. What I haven't had to do is wait 6 months, pay hundreds of dollars and have to explain myself 10 times. Or deal with the artists "vision".

Why would anyone want to pay an ai bro when they hypothetically could do it themselves with AI? Is using AI super easy or is it hard because they keep switching it up

If you vote Liberal or National, you’ll get One Nation.

@SKXRLXT Yellow in both

Well... since all the Aussie VTubers are emerging- 🌭🇦🇺🇦🇺 AUSSIES! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘 What was your house colour? And do you have any swimming/sports carnival stories? I was in green in both high school & primary! ...but I would dress as yellow/red to join my friends because I was lonely-

@WallStreetMav Yeah absolutely nothing like that is going to happen. Yes the council elections are devastating for his party but is has no impact on the national government. He's not going to step down voluntarily and his party has nobody to replace him with.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not going to survive the election results. His Labour Party is getting crushed in the local election results. This is a complete rejection of his leadership of the past 2 years. His own members will be demanding he resign within days.

@robb_j_m They did a no bid contract with a company that then sub contracted the work and then abandoned it when they realised it was going to cost more than they said. Which is what they where told from the start.

To my Aussie friends: Wasn't the idea behind the NBN (National Broadband Network) to ensure that everyone had inexpensive access to the internet? What happened? How much are you paying for internet access?

@Becsterss @ConanExiles Its a coat of paint over the same old problems. The maps aren't actually combined, the AI is still basic and mostly dumb and the building is the same. Its time to put it to bed.

I played Conan Exiles Enhanced early and I need to know what you think 👀 Is this actually a next-gen upgrade or just better lighting?? I compared OLD vs NEW side by side 👇 youtu.be/FK6sF-Tjgw8

@TheRooster Replaced all of the leadership team with people that have AI backgrounds. Yeah this isn't the win you think it is.

In just 71 days as CEO, Asha: 🟢 Took notes from community 🟢 Dropped "Microsoft Gaming" brand 🟢 Fired old UI team 🟢 Shifted focus back to hardware 🟢 Prioritized exclusivity again 🟢 Reduced Game Pass prices 🟢 Changed boring white logo 🟢 Got rid of Copilot Is Xbox back?

@SurvivalGN Its the same just with a new coat of paint. The maps aren't joined. You talk to a NPC that teleports you to the other map. Everything else is the same.

Back to the Exiled Lands 🏝️ In partnership with Inflexion Games, the creators of Nightingale, Funcom has finally released the Unreal Engine 5 upgrade for Conan Exiles.

@desert_starr_57 Ed...ward...

No no no no nope …hell no!

@Derahobs Wonder why some random kid is vandalising my car.

As a father what will you do 🌚

@Grummz 5 1/2 inch boot disks..those where the days.

That’s me!