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This is all true, but it doesn't preclude the possibility of generating DNA. Human share a lot of DNA sequences with other animals, and the genetic differences
by Jack000 5y ago
This is all true, but it doesn't preclude the possibility of generating DNA. Human share a lot of DNA sequences with other animals, and the genetic differences between individual humans are even smaller. You might have trouble generating a human with horns or something, but a taller one is probably mostly an engineering problem.
What GPT-3 and DALL-E shows is that you can infer a lot based on the latent structure of data, even without understanding the underlying physical process.
- snek_case 5y agoDeep learning is probably not the right tool to generate a taller human. We've mapped the human genome. You could probably create a statistical model that pretty accurately maps different versions of genes to height. Then it would mostly be a question of swapping different versions of genes to get the result you want. With a statistical model, you would need a relatively small dataset (hundreds, or thousands of human genomes), and you wouldn't have to worry about errors being introduced.