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> Of course there is a superimposing step, that just means it adds its layer on top of the photo you provide. That's all it means and that's literally what it i

> Of course there is a superimposing step, that just means it adds its layer on top of the photo you provide. That's all it means and that's literally what it is doing, that's all I tried to say, heh. It is not doing this. You are wrong. You are mistaken. You are confused. You do not understand what is happening. (People have tried to tell you this several times, but you're not listening. shrug One more can't hurt.)

recuter 5y ago
I am specifically referring to the flamingo example: "DALL·E 2 can make realistic edits to existing images from a natural language caption." You provide the background image and a text prompt and it doodles on top of the image you provided as per their demonstration. I wasn't referring to the other examples down the page where it conjures up a brand new image from scratch based on your image input. It is great that you can tell it to add a flamingo and it fits into the background you provide nicely due to the well tuned style transfer. That part is cool. And it is impressive that sometimes the flamingo it adds is reflected in the water. But sometimes it isn't reflected. And it isn't up to you, it is up to it. And you can't tell it to add a reflection as a discrete step. Look more carefully. This is more akin to a clipart finder, except if the clipart doesn't exist it uses the most similar thing in its training set to what it guesses you want as a starting point to synthesize new clipart from. It doesn't add it in like an artist would and you can't control it at all. I don't know how to better express this. This isn't unimpressive or un-useful but not quite as mind blowing on second glance.
- visarga 5y ago
  That sounds like "humanity of the gaps", retreating in smaller and smaller human only spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
  - recuter 5y ago
    Is their model god and I'm the heretic? Or am I in denial about how impressive this all really is by reading something slightly different into the static hand selected examples openai teased us with? :) I'm sure two more papers down the line this thing will do what the true believers are convinced it already does perfectly much more seamlessly if they solve for my new favorite term, panoptic segmentation.
    - visarga 5y ago
      The link was for analogy, like religious people who can't accept science still try to find "gaps" where science can't explain something so they can imply God is doing it.
      - recuter 5y ago
        Personally I would happily change my opinion as soon as openai shares an interactive demo. Maybe it really will magically output everything to my satisfaction, what a time to be alive! :)

recuter 5y ago

I am specifically referring to the flamingo example: "DALL·E 2 can make realistic edits to existing images from a natural language caption." You provide the background image and a text prompt and it doodles on top of the image you provided as per their demonstration. I wasn't referring to the other examples down the page where it conjures up a brand new image from scratch based on your image input. It is great that you can tell it to add a flamingo and it fits into the background you provide nicely due to the well tuned style transfer. That part is cool. And it is impressive that sometimes the flamingo it adds is reflected in the water. But sometimes it isn't reflected. And it isn't up to you, it is up to it. And you can't tell it to add a reflection as a discrete step. Look more carefully. This is more akin to a clipart finder, except if the clipart doesn't exist it uses the most similar thing in its training set to what it guesses you want as a starting point to synthesize new clipart from. It doesn't add it in like an artist would and you can't control it at all. I don't know how to better express this. This isn't unimpressive or un-useful but not quite as mind blowing on second glance.

visarga 5y ago
That sounds like "humanity of the gaps", retreating in smaller and smaller human only spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
- recuter 5y ago
  Is their model god and I'm the heretic? Or am I in denial about how impressive this all really is by reading something slightly different into the static hand selected examples openai teased us with? :) I'm sure two more papers down the line this thing will do what the true believers are convinced it already does perfectly much more seamlessly if they solve for my new favorite term, panoptic segmentation.
  - visarga 5y ago
    The link was for analogy, like religious people who can't accept science still try to find "gaps" where science can't explain something so they can imply God is doing it.
    - recuter 5y ago
      Personally I would happily change my opinion as soon as openai shares an interactive demo. Maybe it really will magically output everything to my satisfaction, what a time to be alive! :)