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Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Post by mistercow »

awesomepantsm wrote: post #5
PrunJuice wrote: post #3

If it's a shame that the brightest minds of our generation are working on UIs and advertising, what does that make this? (:

This is the result of the brightest minds working on advertising. Who do you think made TensorFlow? Hint: it was Google.

I think there's a legitimate point to be made that it's a shame that the best way we've found to coordinate our resources to advance science and technology is capitalism. It's not like capitalism doesn't work, but if you envision a sort of "coordination oracle" which divides up resources ideally, and which everyone magically trusts, it seems pretty obvious that we would be advancing much more quickly.

But I also agree that there's not much point in dwelling on that point. So far, finding ways to leverage capitalism into solving problems has tended to be a lot more fruitful than looking for a replacement.

Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Post by Jack000 »

mistercow wrote: post #7
awesomepantsm wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the result of the brightest minds working on advertising. Who do you think made TensorFlow? Hint: it was Google.

I think there's a legitimate point to be made that it's a shame that the best way we've found to coordinate our resources to advance science and technology is capitalism. It's not like capitalism doesn't work, but if you envision a sort of "coordination oracle" which divides up resources ideally, and which everyone magically trusts, it seems pretty obvious that we would be advancing much more quickly. But I also agre…

Capitalism = greedy optimization with a Bayesian assumption. It tends to get stuck in local maxima and does weird things when the inputs are biased, but otherwise works ok.

There are almost certainly better ways to search the solution space, but most serious attempts attempts thus far have been non-sensical or impractical.

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