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You might as well say that, because of the telephone, we will no longer need sound. I think you misunderstand how ChatGPT generates images. ChatGPT can only ge
by wizzwizz4 3y ago
You might as well say that, because of the telephone, we will no longer need sound.
I think you misunderstand how ChatGPT generates images. ChatGPT can only generate text: somebody at OpenAI wrote additional software to handle images, and connected it up to ChatGPT. (I believe ChatGPT is prompting an image model based on DALL-E, though who really knows what's going on in proprietary SaaSS?)
It's not a magic box that, left alone, will inevitably and inexorably transform into the solution to all the world's problems. If ChatGPT is ever capable of producing diagrams, it will be because of systems like this.
- CamperBob2 3y agoWe'll see. That's why they call it the "Bitter Lesson." As far as telephones and sound go, it's more like when AutoCAD came along and all of a sudden it was hard to sell T-squares.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoI have no doubt that it's possible to design an algorithm that can produce diagrams in a given style, given a sufficient description. But a GPT is only going to learn that sort of thing via sufficiently-many examples. This problem is fundamentally different to (e.g.) computer chess, in that we have no algorithmic win condition. You can't brute-force a solution space when your only way of assessing whether candidates are any good is to ask a human. (Especially not when humans use heuristics to assess the quality of something at a glance, and find it tiring to process large quantities of data: that's a simple recipe for specification gaming if ever I saw one.)