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I've had my head in the sand for a while regarding generative AI, but now I'm getting pretty scared

• alcover 5y ago
  I'm in disbelief.. Scared also - why not ? Someone knowledgable in this thread, please tell us it's possible to backtrace such an illustration to its learning set sources. If these things are not just a controlled average(?) of real drawings, then something gigantic has been unlocked.
  • gfodor 5y ago
    I'm gonna go with unlocked on this one.
  • 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
    There's a sense in which they're a controlled average of real drawings, but it's not any more useful of a lens than the sense in which you're a controlled average of your experiences.
  • mortenjorck 5y ago
    > I'm in disbelief.. Scared also - why not ? I'm the former, but not the latter. It is eerie seeing code (especially running in the vast black box that is deep learning) do things so humanlike, but I always come back to the analogy of manned flight. We are on the precipice of a Kitty Hawk moment in AI. But just as the Wright Brothers' plane was not a bird, it's worth remembering that these systems are not minds. They are almost certainly utilizing some of the same principles that minds use, just as fixed-wing aircraft utilized the same principles at work in avian bodies, but they are coming to them via a different route from nature. It's thrilling seeing these breakthroughs, and just as manned flight transformed the world, whatever the likes of GPT, PaLM, and DALL-E become will make the future weird in ways we can't predict.