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Imagine a world where bandwidth constraints meant transmitting a hidden compressed representation that gets expanded locally by smart TVs that have pretrained w

• kybernetikos 4y ago
  "The weather forecast was correct as broadcast, sir, it's just your smart TV thought it was more likely that the weather in your region would be warm on that day, so it adjusted the symbol and temperature accordingly"
• jacobr1 4y ago
  You could still use some kind of adaptive huffman coding. Current compression schemes have some kind of dictionary embedded in the file to map between the common strings and the compressed representation. Google tried proposing SDCH a few years using a common dictionary for wep pages. There isn't any reason why we can't be a bit more deterministic and share a much larger latent representation of "human visual comprehension" or whatever to do the same. It doesn't need to be stochastic once generated.
• supergnu 4y ago
  I mean, that is already happening. Almost all modern TV's do some signal processing before outputting the pixels, and the image looks slightly different on each model. But it'd definitely be cool to have some latent representation of a video that then gets rendered on tv - you could apply latent style sheets to the content, like what actors you want to play the roles, or turn everything into a steam-punk anime on the fly. The more abstract the representation, the more interesting alterations you could apply