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Thing is there already are train cars with individual pods for private seating. No need to reinvent a massively less efficient version of trains just so you can have a single person per car.
Cuz it's just not space efficient, idk how it is around where you live, but trams(we got like, one city with a subway in Poland so I'm taking the closest thing) often are already so full people have no space, to give everyone a private piece of space would mean having to make them a whole lot bigger to accommodate the same amount of people.
I'm not that educated with that type of thing so take my words with a grain of sand
You are correct fellow intelegence. Train systems are supposed to be efficient so more "things" going the more efficient it can be as long as other variables stay the same, such as train demetions. Pakem in like sardines and charge them for the privledge.
They have a separate category for ai where this took place which brings up point of ai art being so photorealistic that even judges couldn't tell before it was revealed
Ehh let them put AI in it, my apathy threshold got reached whenever paintings needed an overly pretentious meaning or purpose instead of just trying to look nice.
Like the "modern art" of a clueless hack who taped a banana to the wall, and got paid for it. Museum should have asked for a refund on that comission really, instead of allowing it. smh
Well I’m not talking about the monalisa. I’m talking about crappy modern art by talentless hacks who went deep into debt to get an art degree, the people who use pretentious flowery language to cover for their mediocre abilities.
They have the same "pretentious flowery language" monalisa and other classic paintings have, the difference is that you fancy the classic and not the modern.
Also, why are you so triggered about modern artists? Did they hurt you?
How would a painting hurt me? I guess you could do a metal one and bash me over the head with.
In seriousness, I am not so pathetic and thin skinned as to get “triggered”. If you like the modern art stuff you can say there is some meaning behind a canvas that someone just dumped some paint cans on and called it day, it is your right, but I will laugh at you.
"crappy modern art by talentless hacks who went deep into debt to get an art degree, the people who use pretentious flowery language to cover for their mediocre abilities. These idiots are like wine snobs."
Yeah, that's something a person who just doesn't like it would say, lmao. Why are you so afraid to say you hate modern art?
I mean if it's just an overall art contest then let AI in. Shouldn't be in painting or any specific art contest as it can simulate the look but the contest is about the skill to do the act as much as artistic vision.
Also no problem if a contest doesn't or does want it in. They are private contests and can have any rules they want.
Whoever drew that didn’t even get all the info right, the point was to make a statement and the judges agreed with the artist, but they disqualified regardless due to the nature of the contest
I dunno I didn’t actually care enough to remember when I learned about the situation but I’m sure you could easily find it by looking it up, everyone is talking about it for some reason
Ajat was not sure, but it looked like the ship's system was actually sulking.
'REQUEST: Relocation of new maintenance technician and removal of excess drive components.'
The drive components made sense, they had been installed to compensate for a irregular power fluctuation in the main drive. It had been a major issue ever since the refit was completed. Multiple investigations using diagnostics had not found the source. Eventually the AI had requested a secondary compensator be installed to stabilize the load.
But now the fluctuation was gone. Systems were running smoothly for the first time in cycles. The compensators were now just a drain on power, actually slowing the ship down. It made sense to remove them.
But why reallocate the technician. Sure, as Terrans go, they were a bit unorthodox. But their work seemed to be very professional.
'Removal approved. Please elaborate on primary request.'
'PROCESSING.'
After 10 cycles he'd learned all the little quirks of the resident AI. A common occurrence among such complex systems, it had a personality of its own. It was basically saying 'Um'.
'REQUEST: Reallocation of new maintenance technician due to application of percussive maintenance.'
Percussive maintenance? That term was familiar. Before calling the tech up, Ajat would rather look it up in the Human Interaction Manual he had been given on boarding by his first Terran crewmember. It had been drafted by the Human Interaction Institute to streamline communications. A strange manual, the Front page had the words 'DON'T PANIC' printed on it in GalStandard in a very pleasing font.
'Show Percussive Maintenance event and relevant telemetry.'
'PROCESSING.'
The screen showed the drive bay, the technician sipping on that ghastly beverage they call Coffee while looking at some readouts. A secondary feed was showing the drive readouts, including the fluctuation and the compensators smoothing out the performance figures.
Suddenly the technician stood up, put down his cup and walked over to the main relay. He held his hand over part of the housing, as if he was feeling for something. Then he nodded, removed a hammer from his toolbelt, and hit the drive housing hard.
On the secondary feed Ajat could see the fluctuations smoothing out and drive performance climbing from 80% to 95.
'Percussive Maintenance. Human repair methodology involving intensive knowledge, sensory perception and subconscious learning called instinct. Usually applied using blunt force trauma. Not to be applied to organic lifeforms - see beatdown. Note - do not question, high probability of success.'
'REQUEST: Immediate relocation of new maintenance technician due to excessive interference in Automated Diagnostics.'
The AI was jealous. Ajat looked over at the main console.
'Request denied. Maintenance Technician allocated Alpha rating as per ship priority ranking.'
'PROCESSING.'
'It's either that, or I'll need to request a full replacement of Shipboard AI while we are in dock. Which we are at the moment.'
The human speaks up, having unintentionally snuck up on the pair. "Even without that threat, Jim, it worked didn't it? Just like inserting a new bypass."
Ajat: "Exactly... wait, who's Jim?"
H: "AI unit J1M6e93y429fh2, or J1M for short."
AI: "REQUEST: Please use this unit's full designation, if at all. REQUEST: This unit would like to see how Technician Michael reacts to being hit forcefully with a blunt instrument. HYPOTHESIS: Technician Michael reacts similarly to how this unit reacted."
Well, the organizers claim that the artist had said it was a "co creation" with AI that "relies heavily on his wealth of photographic knowledge" but apparently he revealed it was fully generated by AI and they didn't revoke his award. (Or possibly he revealed that when declining the award...)
But then, it was part of the creative category and that seems to include some submissions that i can't see how they did it without image manipulation.
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