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Re: Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

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Post by anigbrowl » Sun, May 24, 2020, 12:13 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #127

lumost wrote: post #70

I've observed an increasing trend with modern AI research that A) It's no longer practical to incorporate into real products given the hardware costs for training and inference. In NLP, large transformer based models can easily occupy a 5 thousand dollar GPU at a paltry 50-60 words per second processing pace. B) The Research often demonstrates things that existing non-ML toolchains were already reasonable at doing wi…

Your comment reminds me of snide dismissals of personal computing in the 1980s - looks worse than [existing thing], very expensive, requires an army of technicians, probably explodes unpredictably, overall just a terrible investment.

Some people seem to have construed this as an endorsement of the grandparent post, and I'd like to be clear that it definitely isn't.

Re: Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

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Post by brokenmachine » Tue, May 26, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

HeWhoLurksLate wrote: post #54

the_af wrote: post #49

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Another fun example of how your brain predicts physics stuff is when you misjudge what something weighs. For example, if you subconsciously judge a glass is full of water but it's actually empty, as you try to lift it your arm will fly up awkwardly. This all happens without conscious thought. Don't tell me it never happened to you!

I knocked myself over once by lifting a solid double-corrugated cardboard box that I thought had a mini-lathe in it- I got ready to lift with both legs and promptly threw the box into my face and fell over. That was one of the weirdest experiences I think I've had.

Also when you think there's a step, and there isn't one.

Re: Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

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Post by brokenmachine » Tue, May 26, 2020, 6:09 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #107

Bjartr wrote: post #63

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This reminds me of a story when VR was just becoming big. Someone had been playing the game "Job Simulator" in the restaurant level where you play as a cook in the kitchen of a restaurant. The player was constantly looking in the fridge for things and realized they didn't have to open the door since the game didn't stop their head from clipping through. So they would just stick their head through the door when they n…

If I play a racing game for a while, I find it pretty difficult to drive safely right afterward. I have not actually had any incidents, but I have to consciously not crash into things, or drive wildly.

I've had the same experience after playing FPS games for extended periods of time. Everything feels off.

Re: Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

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Post by SkyBelow » Tue, May 26, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #113

SkyBelow wrote: post #89

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It reminds me of older electric cars. They worked. They could get you around. But they did so at higher price, slower speeds, or other factors that a consumer wasn't willing to pay for. Thus they were regulated to novelty items that some work campuses would have and concept cars that would be shown from time to time. But eventually we reached the point where they are not only competitive, they may be positioned to fu…

The word you are looking for is "relegate", not regulate.

Thanks. It seems obvious in hindsight. I wonder if I had the correct word in my head but my fingers typed the wrong word. That's happened a few times when dealing with words I rarely type. Sadly too late to edit.