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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by ryandrake on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:52PM (#34507243)
It's funny to watch the bar for what counts as quality AI continually and automatically rise so that the threshold for "good" is always "just a bit better than what we have today." DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT are absolutely astonishing. Ten years ago their outputs would be disbelieved by the entire field of Computer Science. 20 years ago they would have been called sorcery. Upon release they were way better than state-of-the-art, and blew away the previous quality bar.

No matter how amazing software gets, there's always someone out there reminding us that it's inadequate because it is not yet perfect.

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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by Noneofya on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:08PM (#34509484)
No, there’s someone out there reminding you it’s not intelligence, because it’s not. Astonishing results are great, let’s celebrate them without claiming they’re something they are not.
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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by Calavar on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:18PM (#34510572)
I think the reason the bar keeps shifting is that we're in the middle of the uncanny valley with regards to AI. Diffusion models and LLMs are just convincing enough that their mistakes are starting to evoke a more visceral reaction than they did with simpler models.
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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by yencabulator on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:23PM (#34511424)
I think drawing hands with 5 fingers is a reasonable ask for anything you want to label "intelligent". Back in the days of Lisp AI hype, you'd have expert systems told that human hands have 5 fingers.

If you want to avoid overselling, call it ML. The machine has learned to reproduce and combine patterns in images.

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