The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Google just trained an AI that's meant to be a "partner" rather than a competitor in video games.
Most concerningly, it's been trained on Goat Simulator 3 (among other video games), so if you wanted to know why you're hearing air raid sirens and seeing distant mushroom clouds, there's your answer.
But on the less apocalyptic end, I think this is great. Maybe Lydia will do a better job of carrying my burdens and my buddies in Tarkov can be replaced by people with lower loot-goblin tendencies who are more reliable about covering my six. Having an AI partner that you can communicate with in natural language and even voice blows things wide open, especially a plug and play agent that can operate in arbitrary environments.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/google-deepmind-wants-its-sima-ai-model-to-be-the-ultimate-co-op-gaming-partner/
Paper (PDF warning): https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/Scaling%20Instructable%20Agents%20Across%20Many%20Simulated%20Worlds.pdf
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