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To generate at least one AI tentacle porn. (I’m quite serious; it’s why I got into AI, and the tech is finally here. It’s a difficult challenge for many reasons

To generate at least one AI tentacle porn. (I’m quite serious; it’s why I got into AI, and the tech is finally here. It’s a difficult challenge for many reasons.) Also, I’M GONNA BE A DAD! We’ve been trying since 2017, and I got a job two years ago specifically to help us do IVF. It’s incredibly expensive — artificial womb tech can’t come too soon. My dad’s over 70, and I was worried he might not get to see his grandkid, so my new year’s resolution is to proudly show him his grandchild for his birthday. We’re very worried about the possibility of a miscarriage. Apparently something like >20% of pregnancies miscarry; had no idea the stats were so grim. But fingers crossed! IVF is hella cool. A very “living in the future” moment. It has a surprising number of advantages from a parenting perspective: no need to worry about Down’s syndrome (a condition you might suppose I have, though you’d be wrong) — genetic screening eliminates that possibility, and with it, the trauma of an abortion. We had six healthy embryos: four female, two male, so it feels like having a bunch of babies in your garage’s deep freezer. Literally cold storage. We wanted a daughter first, so it’s nice to have a guarantee of it. And the process itself was fascinating. They pull up the embryo on a big TV during implantation, so we got to see Kess go from dish baby to real baby right before our eyes. Can’t believe we finally did it. 2023 feels like my lucky year. (NARRATOR: “It was not.”)

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cookie_monsta 4y ago
Great news about the baby, etc, but can we go back for a minute to what an "AI tentacle porn" is?
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  Yup! So you’ll notice that hands are particularity challenging for AI. Gwern’s written at length about it. https://www.gwern.net/Crops https://www.gwern.net/Crops The reason is because hands are sort of a limit case. Humans are very adept at knowing when a hand looks weird. If you draw someone’s shoulder and get it slightly wrong, no one will notice. If you get their hands wrong, everyone notices. But the same is true for eyes and faces, which AI can do quite well. So why are hands so hard? Because they’re “tentacle-y”. Fingers : humans :: tentacles : octopus. They’re long dangly things, and AI has a limited sense of geometry. Tentacle porn is hilarious to me, so I chose it as a target shortly after I started fooling around with GANs. There’s also limited data; it’s surprisingly hard to collect thousands of high-quality drawings. So it’s a real challenge to get an AI to understand how to make them, which is why I like to try.

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cookie_monsta 4y ago

Great news about the baby, etc, but can we go back for a minute to what an "AI tentacle porn" is?

sillysaurusx 4y ago
Yup! So you’ll notice that hands are particularity challenging for AI. Gwern’s written at length about it. https://www.gwern.net/Crops https://www.gwern.net/Crops The reason is because hands are sort of a limit case. Humans are very adept at knowing when a hand looks weird. If you draw someone’s shoulder and get it slightly wrong, no one will notice. If you get their hands wrong, everyone notices. But the same is true for eyes and faces, which AI can do quite well. So why are hands so hard? Because they’re “tentacle-y”. Fingers : humans :: tentacles : octopus. They’re long dangly things, and AI has a limited sense of geometry. Tentacle porn is hilarious to me, so I chose it as a target shortly after I started fooling around with GANs. There’s also limited data; it’s surprisingly hard to collect thousands of high-quality drawings. So it’s a real challenge to get an AI to understand how to make them, which is why I like to try.