Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?

Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin... by leereeves on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:52AM (#32343685)

You know a lot more than that. You know that it eats, sleeps, runs, mates. You know that there are male and female giraffes and what that means. You know that it dies if it gets too hot, too cold, if it falls off a cliff. You know that it has legs, a head, neck, etc and you probably know that it has a heart, brain, lungs, kidneys, etc inside.

You know, vaguely, how it interacts with other things and what it's likely to do around a fruit tree, or a lion, or fire.

Even if you've never been close to a giraffe, you can probably imagine what it looks like from close enough to see individual hairs in its fur.

A lot of knowledge is still missing from ML systems that don't interact with the world.

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Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin... by hypertele-Xii on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:15AM (#32344011)

It's even deeper than that. Humans and giraffes are mammals, very close cousins in terms of evolutionary biology. The very nature of your experience of reality is essentially shared with the giraffe.

Part of our brains are lizard, both yours and the giraffes. Tech so ancient that it uses the same circuits and chemicals with crustaceans.

You can imagine what existence is like for a giraffe with pretty much 99% accuracy without consciously knowing a single thing about it.

A word-based image generator cannot.

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