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by dougabug 4y ago
Software has structural economic advantages that are difficult to match in other professions (particularly ones that can scale up to support such a large number of practitioners).
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by dougabug 4y ago
I think a lot of people don’t want to work in software because of the perception or reality of the software development systems that they have been exposed to. If the right tools were invented for them, they might take to it like ducks to w
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by dougabug 4y ago
Good luck with that. Executives have been trying to do that for decades (“The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer” has been heralded since the 80’s). Even the exhalted Steve Jobs ultimately failed in his cabalistic attempt to hold d
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by dougabug 4y ago
If it weren’t for pesky things like supply and demand. If the pay is so low, it’s kind of curious that the supply doesn’t drop.
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by dougabug 4y ago
I think he’s calling you a cyborg.
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by dougabug 4y ago
Diffusion models can be trained to learn distributions over more or less arbitrary spaces of signals.
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by dougabug 4y ago
> Cats: 1.3 to 4.0 billion [3] [4] Maybe we should paint the cats…
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by dougabug 4y ago
Sure, but the animating story is then coming from a human being (the writer). Still, I believe that there are dimensions of visual storytelling that go beyond translating someone else’s words into pixels.
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by dougabug 4y ago
That’s exactly what happened to the Magratheans in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”: “Unfortunately, the venture was so successful that Magrathea soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject
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by dougabug 4y ago
That seems like an overreach. Thirty years ago, object recognition basically didn’t work, except in extremely simple cases. Something like semantic segmentation would have been way out of reach. Computers couldn’t play Go effectively agains
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by dougabug 4y ago
I didn’t state a number of people making a living on social media. Some people are clearly making a fortune; how many people who are making a living off it, I don’t know. Enough so that I typically have no clue who some random Instagram, Ti
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by dougabug 4y ago
The invention of recording devices gave rise to the recording artist. Only a relative handful of people can be super successful at this, but there is a greater population of working musicians and singers. YouTube and TikTok, smartphones all
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by dougabug 4y ago
Kudo’s for being proactive in looking out for the futures of your students. In technology, it’s best to be the one who makes your own technology obsolete. The arts are one of the oldest drivers and consumers of technology. Commercially, tec
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by dougabug 4y ago
> But the point is, I can't draw. We are very quickly going to reach a point where anybody can produce basically the exact illustration they want in 15 min. Exact is an overly strong word. Suppose you could put onto the page exactly
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by dougabug 4y ago
But human artists have a physical existence, memories of the life they have lived, social interactions and relationships, hopes and dreams for the life they wish to live, personal fears and regrets. A human is not an empty vessel or a pure
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by dougabug 4y ago
‘Fair point. I am not judging you Im just trying to educate an uneducated reader and call a cat a cat: there is no "AI artist" thats a lie. Only "AI trainers"’ If people can make art out of literal garbage, I think they
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by dougabug 4y ago
Would you? To me taste is subjective and ill-posed. I accept that people have the right to their own personal tastes. What would you lie to protect?
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by dougabug 4y ago
“You perfectly know fine art isnt the issue here because its a small industry anyway and you guys arent investing dozens of billions to take over a niche industry.” Seriously, I don’t know that. According to Statistica, the total value of f
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by dougabug 4y ago
Planet ‘New Musk’ probably won’t be for me. The artist is necessary for creating anything legitimately new that doesn’t suck. The critic is necessary to filter out all the crap the AI would be happy to create. Look at all these examples whe
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by dougabug 4y ago
Hm, I confess I don’t understand what you are talking about. Who is claiming that there is a global (or even national) meritocracy? What is meritocracy? Do immigrants outperform natives? On what metrics? Let’s suppose, as a thought experime
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by dougabug 4y ago
These AI art tools model distributions based on sample data. They don’t create the underlying distributions; they need to be given (many) samples from the source distributions. You need people even just to say if something is good or not. S
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by dougabug 4y ago
It’s just a blob of paint until someone says (with conviction) that it’s “art.” Creating compelling results which connect with people requires practice, patience, the willingness and ability to explore, a whole lot of cherry picking. Iterat
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by dougabug 4y ago
GANs have a key (learned) loss called a discriminator which tells it whether or not the generated output looks real or not. GANs took many years of research to get to the point where they could get to the point where they could generate rea
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by dougabug 4y ago
It depends on who made it, and why.
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by dougabug 4y ago
But graphics, design, and special effects were some of the first areas heavily influenced by digital technology, so it’s not super surprising that AI is showing early signs of future impact in the visual arts. It’s becoming pretty clear tha
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by dougabug 4y ago
Immigrant populations aren’t generally uniform random samples of the rest of the world’s population. People with wealth, social capital, high levels of education (which correlates with family background), extraordinary athletic ability, etc
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by dougabug 4y ago
I would say that people will be able to focus more on understanding fundamental concepts clearly and intuitively, rather than simply learning how to apply textbook math in a narrow and mechanical way. I believe AI will help people absorb ne
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Solving and explaining university math problems with Deep Learning(pnas.org)
44 points by dougabug 4y ago|17 comments
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by dougabug 4y ago
New method exploits few shot learning and program synthesis to automatically solve university math problems and produce explanations with 10x the accuracy of previous methods.
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by dougabug 4y ago
Rather than putting significant numbers of artists out of work, I anticipate AI tools will act as a powerful productivity amplifier for everybody, but especially artists. As the cost of capturing, creating, and altering 3D content declines

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