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There are cheap optimists and cheap pessimists. Both amount to trolls and don’t particularly need to be fed or heeded. The truth is we don’t know how far today
by swatcoder 4y ago
There are cheap optimists and cheap pessimists. Both amount to trolls and don’t particularly need to be fed or heeded.
The truth is we don’t know how far today’s breakthroughs in AI will take us. There’s quite a lot of headroom to explore, but history has shown that there are always some brick walls as well.
The rich discussions can be good, but the cheap flamewars are exhausting.
- rob74 4y ago> The truth is we don’t know how far today’s breakthroughs in AI will take us That's the central question. So far, AI has proven great at ingesting huge amounts of "prior art" and producing variations on the themes it has learnt (more or less) according to the prompts you give it, but it consistently fails to grasp the underlying rules (gravity, perspective, anatomy etc.) that are supposed to govern the images it generates. So it's better for "surrealist" art than for images that are supposed to be realistic...
- john61 4y agoThe surrealistic manifesto by Breton excludes AI, since it has no thought: "Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern."
- shuntress 4y agoWe do know how far AI can go: Full parity with human cognition. Everything we do, ultimately, comes down to recognition. The inflection point will be the first model that is trained to recognize trained models.