(2023-05-25, 11:17 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ] I hope that if AI art generators are here to say this is what happens otherwise I fear we will end up with less and less novelty.
I am already bored with some repetitive art styles on DD. Far too many cute pixie girls in the style of Jean-Baptiste Monge for example!
An interesting and passionate perspective from Adam Conover whether or not one agrees with him:
A.I. is B.S.
(2023-05-27, 07:22 AM)Laird Wrote: [ -> ]An interesting and passionate perspective from Adam Conover whether or not one agrees with him:
A.I. is B.S.
I remember back in the 1980s when it seemed inevitable that robots would take over factories and make workers redundant. Many were worried but I would personally be happier for them to take over repetitive employment than art, poetry, therapy and driving. It never came about. Human beings still have to do the mindless, soul-destroying groundwork that makes the owners of big companies incredibly rich for just enough money to live on and have a small holiday once a year. I'm not concerned about the future of A.I. I am concerned about my own future and whether there will ever be a way out of washing dishes for a living!
A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution, an audio interview of professor Gary Marcus on The Ezra Klein Show, 6 January, 2023.
This echoed some of my own sentiments re the currently popular deep learning models: that they seem to lack a facility for (mimicry of) understanding in a way that is so fundamental that it cannot be remedied simply by scaling them up. I've been adding the caveat, "But maybe I'm wrong; maybe a good analogue of understanding will
emerge when the models are scaled up", so it's interesting to listen to this expert affirm that, no, he doesn't think it will, and that, like me, he thinks that what's necessary is a hybrid approach combining deep learning with cognitive models.
There's also a bunch of other very interesting discussion in this podcast - it's well worth a listen.
(2023-05-27, 03:52 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: [ -> ]Student Arlene is as naive as expected concerning the validity of "evidence", references and information, put out by AI systems like ChatGPT.
That's not the impression I got. Even in the quote I shared, she explicitly mentions the need for fact-checking, and if you read the article to get the context of that quote, you will see that immediately prior to it is the observation that
"[history teacher Matt Esterman is] teaching his year 12s the advantages and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence in their history studies.
Among the pitfalls is its unreliability — it frequently spits out complete inaccuracies, fabricated data, made-up quotes and information influenced by the technology's in-built biases."
And then the quote I shared immediately follows, actually starting with "But", which I edited out because for brevity I'd not included those prior paragraphs and I wanted the quote to stand alone:
"But students like Arlene Kumar are focused on the advantages."
(2023-05-27, 10:51 PM)Laird Wrote: [ -> ]That's not the impression I got. Even in the quote I shared, she explicitly mentions the need for fact-checking, and if you read the article to get the context of that quote, you will see that immediately prior to it is the observation that "[history teacher Matt Esterman is] teaching his year 12s the advantages and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence in their history studies.
Among the pitfalls is its unreliability — it frequently spits out complete inaccuracies, fabricated data, made-up quotes and information influenced by the technology's in-built biases."
And then the quote I shared immediately follows, actually starting with "But", which I edited out because for brevity I'd not included those prior paragraphs and I wanted the quote to stand alone: "But students like Arlene Kumar are focused on the advantages."
What could the advantages possibly be if the information, the most important bit, is unreliable?
(2023-05-26, 11:15 AM)Brian Wrote: [ -> ]I am already bored with some repetitive art styles on DD. Far too many cute pixie girls in the style of Jean-Baptiste Monge for example!
Prompted by your comment here, a few days ago I looked online for some AI-generated fantasy people. It was disturbing to see how many were somehow deformed or freakish, people with three arms appeared several times, hands with about fifteen fingers in a tangled knot and even one where the arm ended at the elbow. The associated forearm and hand were floating mysteriously in mid-air several inches away.