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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by atleta »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

I agree. Most people fail to see it, because they see all the effort they need to put into producing good results (regardless of their actual job, BTW). Programmers keep thinking their job is secure, because, after wall, we are the ones, who write the software. Even if it's a ML system. (But ML systems don't necessarily need much coding.)

However, software development is probably the most thoroughly documented job, the job with the most information online how to do it right, the job with the best available training set. There is a lot of quality code (yes, bad code too), a lot of questions and answers with sample code (stackoverflow...) available. Maybe we've even already written most the software needed in the near future, it's just not available to everyone who needs it (because no one knows all the things out there and also these might be in several pieces in several repos).

Now the one critical thing I think is still needed, based on how actually we create software is an agent that has reasonable memory, that can handle back references (to what it has been told earlier), i.e. one that can handle an iterative conversation instead of a static, one time prompt.

This might be a big leap from where we are now or it may seem like one but AI/ML keeps surprising us for the past decade or so with these leaps. Another thing that may be needed is for it to be able to ask clarification questions (again, as a part of an iterative conversation). I'm not sure about this latter one, but this is definitely how we do the work.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by fragmede »

amildie wrote: post #117
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes. For that scenario to be possible, general AI needs to be developed first. A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know. Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "…

The backend of a streaming platform is trivially summoned by logging into Twitch. GPT3 has already demonstrated its "understanding" between a problem statement, a variable, and it's value (and if you haven't, it's worth finding the tweet/gif). Bridging the gap between the words "streaming platform backend" and an ffmpeg command line may involve a bunch more details, but the gap between the two is only going to shrink.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by pyrolistical »

kortex wrote: post #144
jedberg wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not at all true. A CDN is a content delivery network. There is nothing that says it isn't a network of a single host on the same machine as the original content. It's just a cache that returns content faster than the original content.

Nope, that's just a proxy/cache. > A content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end users. Emphasis mine. CDN implies some sort of edge-hosting topology (or at least more-proximal than the main servers).

Aws clountfront is configurable to be one region or global. So would cloudfront not count as a cdn in your mind if it’s configured to be a single region?

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by OliverGilan »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #132
brundolf wrote: post #103

Honestly, this is an awesome use of DALL-E and I'll probably start doing the same for my blog It's perfect because: - The images just need to get across a vibe, they don't need to be perfect - It's a low-value enough use of images that you'd probably never commission a human artist to do them; instead you'd either use stock photos, or skip having images completely - The nature of header images for a tech blog tends t…

>The images just need to get across a vibe I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out…

I use image thumbnails for my blog posts as well but they don't even show up in the article. Instead when the article is linked to on twitter or a message the thumbnail will show up. That's to say that this is pretty awesome and very valuable for a blog even if not used for cringy pop-gif stuff in the article.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by trention »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #136
texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would that be similar to a "prompt engineer" role?

Help me out. What's a "prompt engineer?" It seems like a very good title for the way we will be using AIs in the future. Many of these AIs will need just the right prompt (question?) to get the info we need. I like the title.

It's basically a way in which already delusional people are further deluding themselves that writing a part of a sentence while interacting with a black box is engineering.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by password4321 »

deltree7 wrote: post #155
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…

Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images. So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value

> (which the other's can't due to copyright issues)

Be sure to pass this along to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by trention »

kache_ wrote: post #79
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

programming is going to get automated with language models in however, I find that my job (SWE) is about 1% programming and 99% strategizing, designing & communicating.

Really? How much money are you willing to put on the claim "LLMs are going to produce >80% of newly written production code in 5 years"? If it's less than your yearly salary, then even you don't believe your own assertion.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by ShamelessC »

deltree7 wrote: post #155
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…

Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images. So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value

The training data for is partially made from Alamy , I think.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by themodelplumber »

flir wrote: post #151
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…

Vocabularies are starting to appear. Something like a pattern language.

This means the result in the best-use case will be developing a suitable in-house pattern language. I'm sure Adobe's all over this since it's related to language arts and will be a more natural fit for the critical eye of a design & branding team.

And probably still, downstream designers are going to be showing how they can convert DALL·E 2 imagery to polished finals. Especially after reviewing the blog post, it's really clear that if you want things to come together well for a refined corporate environment you'll need someone doing that. "I love the whale imagery, but I don't like the DALL·E 2 look, what can we do about the whale teeth" or whatever will definitely be a thing.

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