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Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin... by sho_hn on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:52PM (#32350990)
> 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? :-)

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Re:Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understandin... by otikik on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:03AM (#32353073)
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.

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