Quoting: dziadulewiczOh Zombies even here. To ruin even a Command & Conquer kind of game. WHY ARE THESE THROWN EVERY WHERE

A politically correct way to kill humans?
Just guessing.

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Quoting: EikePS: I dig how different opinions have been exchanged in this thread without going for each others throat. :)

That's just because ChatGPT and Bard haven't joined the party! XD

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: kokoko3kAre you Picasso or an average human? You really think your creativity cannot match an AI?

Yes, I fear I'm less creative at least in writing poems and painting than an AI.

I hope I'm still better (more creative?!? I don't know!) in my best field, software development.

But all of this seems to be a "Rückzugsgefecht" (dictionaries say it's "rearguard action" in English?) of mankind.
We're trying to defend what we think we're best in and what seems to be the "most human" trait to us, and it gives us strong feelings, and it makes us fear.

I understand your point and I'm all for the artificial life.
But i still think that we, as Natural Intelligences, are much more well trained and will be so for long time, because we make far more experiences; our training set of big data are much more vast, our potential is still so much bigger.

But,
if we start to rely on IAs, our set will stop to grow or will grow in a way that is driven by someone else woth much money in his pocket.

That's what I fear.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: kokoko3kHow is an AI supposed to "create" or "innovate" when it just vomits associations of other work it has been trained upon?

AI is more "creative" than most humans.

These comparisons are getting ridiculous. Yes, computers are less creative than Pablo Picasso ... But they can compete with an average human in all of these fields easily. Mots of us don't write poems or paint pictures at all.

I firmly disagree.

Creativity is not just writing nice poems, painting nice pictures or musical scores that meet the common taste.
Every human on earth is more creative than the better AI as of today.
Are you Picasso or an average human? You really think your creativity cannot match an AI?
Me certainly not and I'm not Picasso either.

Using an AI to make art is not being unable to do it by your own, it is just lazyness, easy and quick money, more or less just another step straight on the road to the flatness.

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Don't you see contradictions here?
"We welcome and encourage innovation, and AI technology is bound to create new and exciting experiences in gaming."
How is an AI supposed to "create" or "innovate" when it just vomits associations of other work it has been trained upon?
Granted, the process "aims to be" similar to what the human mind does right now, but AI is still trained by humans with specific sets of "BIG" data.
Instead, human creativity comes from randomness, from caos, from living an entire, unpredictable life, which is different, individual.
What will be AIs trained upon from now to 100years? The need for "Bio"diversity comes to mind...

Let's try to stop this trend to make everything flat.

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Immutable OS == immutable issues

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Want stable apps? Get immutable apps, take flatpak, take snaps.
Want stable os? Take an immutable OS.
Next step will be an immutable pc, a dumb terminal versus a virtual machine owned by someone else.

But yes, let's go with flatpak by now.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: kokoko3kIt seems the deck has an ips screen, not tn, right?

The Deck has an IPS screen, yes. Which means that off-axis viewing is fine, which wouldn't be the case with a TN screen. But the colour gamut isn't great as far as IPS screens go - less than 100% sRGB. It seems to be one of the "painful" choices Valve made to hit the price point. In actual use, though, it's not that much of an issue: you aren't using it to see skin tones - games make up their own custom colours. If you hold it side-by-side with a good IPS screen you'll see the reds being slightly orange, but solo you'll only notice the high DPI, fast response, and ability to show a good image even at very low brightness, which are admirable traits for a battery-powered gaming appliance. There is space for a Deck with a better screen but the process of replacing it is not a lot of fun. And replacing the screen with one that can't run at an arbitrary refresh rate between 40 & 60 Hz (which the Deck's display can) would be a functional downgrade.

Well, I suppose that an IPS screen still means good color reproducion in the range of the reproducible while still very low gamut.
This ensures good reproduction at low brightness levels, but still, at low brightness having more gamut helps, because saturation is clamped "by design".
Btw, it is not just skin tones. At least for me, the inability to show saturated and vivid colors is a serious issue.
I repeat, my personal and biased opinion, don't shoot me.

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Quoting: scaineAt least on the top end unit, the screen is vibrant and crystal clear.

Not how I'd describe a LCD TN panel if that is what SD use.
Basically once you've used OLED, you'll never turn back. I find it VERY hard to touch my VR Pico-4 because it's clearly using some cheap LCD and the blacks are all grey. (less noticeable on handheld however)

It seems the deck has an ips screen, not tn, right?
Not saying the Deck does or not mount a shitty ips screen, but unfortunately today's cheap screen makers managed to make shitty colors even on ips screens.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: kokoko3kWow, Is the Deck just 40% AdobeRGB?

Somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, since I'm more pratocal about NTSC and SRGB colorspaces, but it seems AdobeRGB is equivalent to NTSC, and 40% means seriously washed out colors (how does the red looks on the Deck, kinda orange-ish?), more or less the same you find in 300/400 euros laptops; good for office use, but definitely NOT for running games or watching movies, what a shame.

If you'd ever seen and used a SteamDeck and then described it's screen as washed out, you'd be laughed out of town. At least on the top end unit, the screen is vibrant and crystal clear.

As stated, I don't own nor ever seen it live, but I fail to find reviews that describe its screen as vibrant, which is in line with the reported gamut coverage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/ta6wxf/why_is_the_screen_so_bad/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/2/3416556480601372738/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/sunr38/deck_screen_vs_nonoled_switch/

So there has been something I'm not considering here.
Maybe, as you said, the "less cheap" model has a better screen or maybe i can't stand anything lower than 70% ntsc coverage.

I always switch laptop displays voiding the warranty, just to say one :)

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