I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

Re:I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 by andybak on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:26PM (#32391902)

There's a weird tension between people who say saying "AI is overblown" and people who say "this is the most magical thing I've seen in my lifetime".

I lean towards the latter but with a healthy dose of "it's deeply weird and hard to get anything useful from". But that doesn't make it any less magical.

And no - it's not "intelligent" in any human sense.

But I can't relate to people who pooh-pooh it as if there's nothing exciting happening. Either they are deliberately cultivating a dismissive air, or they are deeply jaded and weary.

EDIT - There's a 3rd option. People are making a rhetorical point because they perceive a need to correct an imbalance in the general mood. This is actually the most likely explanation and is often under-appreciated as motivator in public statements. I've noticed it in myself frequently.

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Re:I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 by thrown_22 on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:08PM (#32392247)

AI can be overblown and it can also be magical.

This was true for state of the art in 2010: https://xkcd.com/1425/ today you have a free phone app that does both. Of course it also classifies a spoon as a large breasted robin which is why you need a human in the loop. It's even truer in programming.

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Re:I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 by andybak on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:36PM (#32392414)

That xkcd actually claims the opposite: "some things that many people assume to be trivial CS problems actually require advancements in AI"

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Re:I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 by thrown_22 on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:00PM (#32393000)

That's what I said. The converse is that despite the huge advance the model is still incredibly fragile and quite useless outside the niche for which it was trained for.

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