Re:Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors
by jcannell on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:42PM
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>How do you "synthesize ideas" if not by combining parts of your own personal database of images/concepts?
Procedural generation can be far more complex than just linear blending, which is all that a shallow net can do. For example, consider the full generative process which creates a frame from the game No Man's Sky. It is enormously more complex than a simple shallow net that can just do linear blends of previous examples - many many nonlinear processing steps to go from a small random seed to intermediate databases for terrain and objects and finally down to pixels.
If you look at the actual net design used here, it's only a few layers deep, and not very big. Much much closer to 'linear blending' than what our brains do (which is presumably vaguely closer to what no man's sky does).
Procedural generation can be far more complex than just linear blending, which is all that a shallow net can do. For example, consider the full generative process which creates a frame from the game No Man's Sky. It is enormously more complex than a simple shallow net that can just do linear blends of previous examples - many many nonlinear processing steps to go from a small random seed to intermediate databases for terrain and objects and finally down to pixels.
If you look at the actual net design used here, it's only a few layers deep, and not very big. Much much closer to 'linear blending' than what our brains do (which is presumably vaguely closer to what no man's sky does).