Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin...
by sho_hn on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:52PM
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> It is a hack alright. A very beautiful hack, refined in hundreds of thousands of iterations, with a very high price.
To what extent does this describe evolution? :-)
Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin...
by otikik on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:03AM
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That is my description of evolution. The part that isn’t there is all negative: that it doesn’t (can’t) care about individuals. That it doesn’t (can’t) “understand” what is doing. That it doesn’t (can’t) “design”; it can only iterate. That it doesn’t (can’t) care that the intermediate result is inscrutable to us.
Mostly clarifications for people who anthropomorphize the process.
> to allow introspection
Evolution doesn’t do things “to anything”. It repeats what works, and kills the rest. Our brains have allowed us to adapt to the changes in the environment better than the rest. Conscience came with the pack. It might not have an actual “purpose”- it could be an “appendix”.
My personal belief is that consciousness started as the self-preservation instinct that most animals have, and we developed introspection as a way to strengthen our ties to other members of our family or tribe. And then we “won” (for now)