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by mkaic 4y ago
This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. Millions of people just got unconditional access to the state-of-the-art in AI text-to-image for absolutely free less the cost of hardware. I have an Nvidia GPU myself and am
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by mkaic 4y ago
Stable Diffusion[0] is an extremely expensive SOTA text-to-image diffusion model developed by a private nonprofit and trained on a massive "Internet tarball" that's about to have its weights shared open-source (the code and d
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by mkaic 4y ago
Yeah, this entire article read like a giant example of the logical fallacy of personal incredulity. None of the author's claims are actually backed up in any meaningful way.
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by mkaic 4y ago
This article is overly dismissive, to say the least. To say the most, it's overconfident, riddled with unsupported logical premises which are never backed by any concrete evidence, and a word salad. However, in the interest of not bein
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by mkaic 4y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, I don't see why this couldn't be accomplished with just standard cryptographic hashing verification based off of, say, a scan of the artist's iris salted with a timestamp that is then encode
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by mkaic 4y ago
I'd agree with you, but I have yet to come across a salient, non-circular definition of "meaning" in this context that makes it somehow unobtainable by robots. What is the meaning you speak of? This isn't meant to come
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by mkaic 4y ago
Fellow AI researcher here who personal agrees with OP, there are some of us that are believers ;). I agree that most people in our industry are generally not very bullish about near-term AGI, I think it just comes down to how you perceive t
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by mkaic 4y ago
As an artist (music, film, 3D modeling/rendering, creative writing, portraiture) and an AI engineer, I'll admit I have a lot of uncertainty about the future of art. Some days I'm very scared, other days I figure I'll jus
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by mkaic 4y ago
>AI is not at all "creative" just derivative. And humans are not derivative? Every image human artists make is based off of something that artist has seen or experienced before. All creativity is derivative .
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by mkaic 4y ago
I'm a junior programmer who never went to college and writes Python for a living (ML researcher). I've been itching to learn another programming language, ideally something fast and low-level, and have had my eye on Rust now for s
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by mkaic 4y ago
The real issue I have is that Facebook keeps an unencrypted copy of everyone's DMs stored and just waiting to be handed to the government. I understand it's how they make money, and that they've done it forever, but man, I gu
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by mkaic 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what about The Mitchells vs. The Machines graphics felt slightly outdated? It felt like they pushed the boundaries of the medium to me, including doing a lot of custom rendering work to make their final frames ma
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by mkaic 4y ago
Oh shoot, you're totally right -- doing a quick search reveals that Blender's Cycles engine has totally had this feature for a while and I was just completely unaware of it despite using it frequently! Although even without the he
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by mkaic 4y ago
I'm guessing it's a combination of genuine goodwill (Dreamworks has a history of open-sourcing stuff) and wanting to be able to hire people who already have experience with their renderer instead of having to train every new hire.
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by mkaic 4y ago
I disagree. Dreamworks doesn't make their money because of their rendering engine, they make it because of their movies. The engine is a necessary and integral tool for making those movies, but the engine alone is not the beating heart
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by mkaic 4y ago
I'd guess that the volume rendering in MoonRay is pretty top notch considering Dreamworks was also responsible for creating OpenVDB. Furthermore, while their characters and environments are often stylized, watch a few minutes of How To
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by mkaic 4y ago
I disagree -- a large part of the lookdev process at animation studios involves single artists working on single workstations with single GPUs while they work on their part of the pipeline. I'd wager that Dreamworks almost certainly do
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by mkaic 4y ago
Thanks, I'll have to check this out! And to think I thought I was going to be productive at work today before seeing this announcement...
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by mkaic 4y ago
This looks absolutely fantastic. If you're interested in the technical details currently available, check out the about page[0] on the official MoonRay site, or this presentation from SIGGRAPH 2017[1]. I'm particularly excited for
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by mkaic 4y ago
This is fascinating because one of the first things they teach you in ML class is why nonlinear activations are necessary -- because otherwise, your entire network is mathematically equivalent to a single linear transformation since linear
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by mkaic 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. What's more, it seems to me like there's a large segment of the art industry that's very much in denial right now about this transition. You see stuff like "the human touch can't be replicated&
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by mkaic 4y ago
and mayhaps the plural of the plural of octopus is trigintidipus?
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by mkaic 4y ago
Will DALL•E 2 make human taste obsolete? No, absolutely not. But DALL•E 3? 4? Other similar models in the next 5 years? Absolutely yes. This blog post proves that with current algorithms, human input is needed, but it proves nothing about
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by mkaic 4y ago
I actually worked briefly with an engineer who claimed to have seen the inner workings of the TikTok algorithm when she was consulting for them (she was a software engineer and mathematician), and I was very surprised to hear her say that t
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by mkaic 4y ago
You're describing Gamer's Nexus pretty well I think -- easily the highest quality and most transparent/trustable PC hardware reporting I've personally come across. They frequently burn bridges with manufacturers because
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by mkaic 4y ago
Most of the thought-provoking ideas, arguments, and "formalizations of the nature of the human condition" I've encountered in my life have come from movies, TV, or forum posts. Books are great, but let's not pretend they
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by mkaic 4y ago
"Taters? What's taters, precious?" "You don't know what taters are? Po-tat-oes? Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew?"
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by mkaic 4y ago
I feel like I'm one of the only people here who's actually... quite optimistic and excited about this? Like -- I really don't see Amazon screwing this up. Bezos is a fan of the franchise and is smart enough to know that thi
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by mkaic 4y ago
To me, an adversarial, long Turing test in the form of a Signal (or similar) conversation is the gold standard for proving sentience. If I can send text, photos, audio, and videos off to a real person (who I don't know) and an AI agent
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by mkaic 4y ago
I would highly recommend trying it again -- it's improved drastically in the past 5 years!

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