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I disagree that this is unimpressive, but do largely agree about AI winter. Dall-E 2 is probably the most impressive AI implementation I can recall in the past
by fullshark 4y ago
I disagree that this is unimpressive, but do largely agree about AI winter. Dall-E 2 is probably the most impressive AI implementation I can recall in the past 5-10 years and it's still highly specialized problem being solved, and it's unclear what market it really can go after other than freelancing digital artists online who work for tiny commissions. I guess it's also gonna be great for NFTs but I consider that market illusory and will disappear within a few years.
- natly 4y agoI am definitely going to bet against the "AI winter is returning" idea by investing huge amounts of my time into understanding these algorithms. History doesn't have to repeat, sometimes that's the foolish prediction (the apple newton was made fun of by the simpsons but when the ipad came out the timing was perfect). I don't like overinflating OpenAIs already enormous ego but these are incredible images.
- fullshark 4y agoAgree there's no reason it has to come again, just things got so hyped the past 5-10 years I wouldn't be surprised if a reality check on the horizon involves a "winter" of sorts and paring down of investment, as it becomes clear that current techniques are great at highly specialized problems where there is a lot of data. There's lots of firms that have both though so maybe it just keeps chugging along as ROI is found.
- natly 4y agoWell the investment landscape in general is kinda drying up (innovation is getting harder) and AI is one of the few areas that could or is bearing fruit so that's a big part of it too (even hardware and software is kinda stagnating). If investment is going to go anywhere AI is still one of the few places in the world that could have 100x returns (despite many frauds, yes).