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

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Post by prmoustache »

vbezhenar wrote: post #141
Bjorkbat wrote: post #129

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And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking? I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take? Now, I have no idea w…

Self-driving cars are reality for a few years already. Issue is with laws and people, much less with tech.

They works great when conditions are ok. As soon as there is an outstanding parameter they fail spectactularly.

We can also talk about AI support service crap with accounts banned/locked without the user having any way to know why or prove he didn't break any terms of the contracts.

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

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Post by nudpiedo »

I guess these images cannot be copyrighted for a blog post since dalle could generate either the same or very similar ones.

Some less capable algorithms are quite repetitive in such aspect. Perhaps after some time it will be like blog theming where everyone has the same style.

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

pyrolistical wrote: post #163
kortex wrote: post #144

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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?

A region has multiple access points.

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

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Post by IanCal »

petesergeant wrote: post #217
Kranar wrote: post #77

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I find the images to be incredible, but it's very unsettling when you focus on certain details like hands, feet, and eyes. The hands and feet that it draws are almost always mangled, and while it does a good job of drawing an individual eye, it doesn't seem to draw two eyes in a well coordinated manner, either one eye is bigger than the other, or there is something weirdly unsymmetrical about the eyes that makes the…

I wonder if there’s a potential cottage industry of GANs that then fix up these details — one that knows exactly what a hand should look like and will fix up anything that looks like (or that you identify as) a hand

There are already ones to fix up faces, it'd be interesting to combine these things in a workflow. Dalle -> face detector -> user clicks -> stylegan3.

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Post by zimpenfish »

trynewideas wrote: post #157
deltree7 wrote: post #155

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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

Considering how DALL-E is fed with so many stock images that it sometimes spontaneously generates specific stock image websites' watermarks on output,[1] this is the stupidest, blandest possible ouroboros. [1] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/1551964984325812224

The latent-diffusion[1] I've got running at home frequently generates stock image watermarks (e.g. "The London Skyline at night in the style of Carboni"[2], images 1, 2, and 6)

[1] https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion [2] https://imgur.com/a/8tOI9QU

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Post by l33tman »

zarzavat wrote: post #218
asddubs wrote: post #211

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open source isn't the same as public domain. the code is still copyrighted and has a specific license that has to be adhered to in order to be allowed to use it

Nobody knows whether or not training a NN is fair use. If it were ruled to be not fair use then it would basically shut down a large chunk of ML research in the US, as it's not just Copilot that is training on copyrighted data. All the large language models require copyrighted data such as web crawls as there is just not enough public domain material around. So even if you are right, and courts rule that training is…

As a tangent... a human being who reads up on websites (that are not explicitly in the public domain) is in essence also "training" themselves on that data. It would be really short-sighted (and impossible to start with) to forbid an AI to read it if a human is allowed..

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Post by rl3 »

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

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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 "…

>I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes.

I already see a clear path that'd take about 20 years to execute properly. That's assuming low pressure conditions and a very large amount of funding though, both of which aren't typically present in reality.

The result is essentially what GP describes, with a path to AGI in the form of extremely competent tool AI. We're going to hit self-assembling programs before we hit true AGI.

I can't say I'm particularly excited to see such things become reality. Fortunately, humans usually find a way to fuck things up. Our species' collective incompetence is the largest barrier to AGI currently, which may be a blessing in disguise depending on how you look at it.

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Post by l33tman »

trention wrote: post #166
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #136

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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.

Engineering is full of highly specialized disciplines. I met radio antenna engineers who only ever worked on one single piece of test equipment their entire working career and who used it to watch a signal bounce while they moved around pieces of copper tape on a PCB. That's literally all they did, and they didn't know what a spectrum analyzer or any other related tool was.

You'll find these specialized positions working with AI as well soon.

We can deride it from not being "traditional" engineering, but engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have", certainly allows for a prompt engineer to be defined..

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Post by danielbln »

jedberg wrote: post #98

> Maybe it was because this was my first attempt, but with 100 more posts to go, I hoped I could get better with practice. It would be super cool to just feed DALL-E a whole blog post and have something great pop out, but even with some GPT-3 magic we probably aren’t there yet. I see a business opportunity here. Feed text into GPT-3 and have it generate DALL-E prompts to make appropriate images. Then you have it do t…

I've done something similar a while ago, turned out great (according to my toddler): https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ueizwz/i_printed_a_...

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

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Post by torginus »

Bjorkbat wrote: post #129
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.

And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking? I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take? Now, I have no idea w…

I think self-driving cars might be one of the hardest domains ever, considering they need to do the right thing (or at least avoid doing the wrong thing) 99.99% of the time to be even considered viable.

An AI artist can get away with a 5% success rate and still be considered viable for replacing humans.

Likewise, and AI programmer can be right only 50% of the time with expert oversight (someone sitting there fixing the code), or 90% with non-expert oversight.

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