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I saw an AI 'meme generator' the other day that seemed to make fairly insightful and funny memes. I think the future is close, and...very strange.

• minimaxir 6y ago
  The funny thing about the AI meme generator is per the technical write up (https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-deep-convolutional-network-in-keras-tensorflow-a57c6f218e85 https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...), that network is even less advanced than the old recurrent neural network approaches. (it uses convolutional neural networks which are more used for images than text nowadays) However, this is the one case where more incoherence works better.
  • gwern 6y ago
    Yes, it's a testament to crowdsourcing and filtering. Many people have argued that 'generation + filtering = creativity', and it's impressive what NNs+crowds can do. The NNs are unhindered by any merely human considerations and are indefatigable, while the crowd brings the filtering & evaluation to select just the best candidates.