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what is novel? what if you couple a random text generator with a picture generator, isn't each new picture novel? if we could send all artists to work in the
by pas 2y ago
what is novel?
what if you couple a random text generator with a picture generator, isn't each new picture novel?
if we could send all artists to work in the healthcare mines we might discover new treatment for various ailments. is that not novel? is that too indirect?
increasing "economic surplus with externalities factored in" is good for society even if it's not novel.
arguably philosophers come up with novel stuff all the time, and ...
> Current models simply aren't capable of that, and the results achieved here with multimodal models suggests that they never will.
can you elaborate on this a bit please?
- yladiz 2y ago> if we could send all artists to work in the healthcare mines we might discover new treatment for various ailments. is that not novel? is that too indirect? You do realize that artists are artists because they want to be, and even if AI can create art, artists will still be artists, right? They won't just be like, "Oh, AI is good at generating art now? Whelp time to go become a doctor."
- chefandy 2y agoWait, you're saying people's brains aren't fungible compute cycles? Casually discussing people's lives as top-down resource allocation problems is one of the things I hate most about how "tech optimists" discuss this.