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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by yreg on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:11AM (#34503751)
To piggyback, it's been almost a year and I still haven't gotten over the first time I saw DALL-E 2. Or the first time I've used GPT-2 (via AI Dungeon Google Collab sheet). Not sure when was the previous last time I've felt that sense of wonder. Perhaps the first time I've interacted with the original iPhone?

Edit: I remembered some more:

- First Boston Dynamics Atlas videos.

- First successful Falcon 9 landing.

- A video explaining how the Curiosity landing will be done and then watching the stream when it happened.

- The concurrent landing of two Falcon Heavy boosters on land.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by bemmu on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:40AM (#34504925)
First time I got the "there's something special happening here" vibe was seeing the early "hallucination" images some years ago. Some examples here: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-trippy-images-show-how...
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by yreg on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:48AM (#34505063)
I wasn't able to realize the scale of the shift that's about to happen back then.

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I just remembered another example of hearing about something that seemed like pure magic:

Reconstructing what a person is seeing out of their fMRI scan (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by O__________O on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:03PM (#34506433)
That’s most interesting aspect to me is that 100s of thousands of people were all likely aware of the developments in the field, but few actually knew what was coming down the road in the near future. It’s these types of gaps I find the most interesting when looking at technologies like this.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by ctack on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:01PM (#34510317)
What is coming though?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by Acutulus on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:49AM (#34505090)
I'm right there with you. Google's DeepDream I think?

That first week of DeepDream images flooding the web showed me that someone had snuck a can of worms onto the table, and while they had graciously not opened it immediately, they had maybe cracked the lid just a bit

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