Re:Epigrams in Programming
by 082349872349872 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:29PM
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It doesn't. Consider the first 10k words in my /usr/dict/words equivalent.
They start:
A
a
aa
aal
and end: anticonductor
anticonfederationist
anticonformist
anticonscience
How do you want to describe those with a picture?(ok, these days one could make a long, thin screen shot, but a non-trivial picture, that doesn't factor through a textual representation? Even representing the 8 strings given here via graphics sounds iffy to me...)
That epigram is referring to a fundamental asymmetry of information between words and pictures. Having a machine that can come up with many different pictures from a few words doesn’t only not say anything about how to make a picture from any 10K words, it somewhat reinforces the epigram’s point.
Those models may be more adequately described by #63: When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out that we do and they don’t.
Re:Epigrams in Programming
by AnimalMuppet on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:32PM
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It doesn't need to be rewritten at all. I can ask Dall-E for a picture that conveys the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount, say, or of Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity. Whatever I get will not convey the content that the sermon or the paper convey - not even close.
How does this need to be rewritten in the sight of Dall-E, Midjourney and friends?