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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by ROTMetro on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:57PM (#34510257)
Do humans artist routinely fail to connect hands/fingers to the rest of the body? That draw fingers with finger nails on both ends? Hands that have 12 fingers when doing realism? We are not talking about 'not very good at draws the details of a hand' but not able to understand fundamental details of what a hand is.
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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by qingdao99 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:26PM (#34510669)
I think the question has accidentally shifted here.

ChatGPT knows that hands have five fingers because it's trained on text and text will almost always say that.

DALL-E doesn't know that hands have five fingers, it just knows what hands generally look like, and the number of fingers on a hand is just one of the elements it tries to match. At a glance, there are far more important elements of what a hand looks like, such as the shading.

Neither of these mean either AI is stupid. DALL-E doesn't have a concept of what a hand is, it just has an idea of what is looks like, and it's decent at recreating that.

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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by rcme on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:17PM (#34510552)
> Do humans artist routinely fail to connect hands/fingers to the rest of the body?

Children do all the time, and I'm pretty sure children have a rudimentary understanding of hands.

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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by Noneofya on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:32PM (#34512687)
But they lack the abstraction necessary to call them self-aware (by the current definition). That’s actually a test to check the development of a child. A child is not very intelligent yet. But it is able to become it on its own just by observing. ChatGPT isn’t.
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Re:CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive ... by rcme on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:42PM (#34512763)
ChatGPT gained all of its abilities through observation, i.e. training. Changing the discussion from "understanding" to "self awareness" is really moving the goal posts.
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