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It's impossible to do something like, "A sphere on the left of the picture." and have it understand it.
After having iterative conversations in ChatGPT, Midjourney felt like it has an extremely poor grasp of language.
> AIs, at their current level of development, don’t perceive objects in the way that we do – they understand commonly occurring patterns. You see this claim everywhere - that AI operates on statistics and patterns and not actual understanding. But human understanding is entirely about statistics and patterns. When a human sees a collection of particles and recognizes it as, say, a car, all they are doing is recognizi…
The day where these models can show shoes under a fence and a reflection of the person behind the fence in an opposing shop window? That day will come. But not on the current crop.
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Thought process is fine, but lead with the plain and simple version. Offer context after you've introduced the topic and described what you're talking about.
I think when you're trying to be convincing of a counter intuitive or controversial point, it helps to start with less objectionable parts of the argument first. If an argument involves several steps, A to B to C ending in D, but D is wildly counter intuitive, some audiences, hearing D first will reduce their likelihood of actually integrating the consequences of A and so on. Maybe someone who's done more research on…
"I believe that we are all the same person. How could anybody come to think that? In this paper I shall try to explain how it happened to me." [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233329805_One_Self_...]
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> As for "almost the whole article" -- it is short! It took about 90sec to read the whole page, top to bottom. Cool. The article has 2348 words, so that's around 26 words per second, or ~1560 words per minute. According to some speed reading pages I randomly found via Google the consensus seems to be that 1000+ words per minute is quite exceptional. https://irisreading.com/what-is-the-average-reading-speed/ puts aver…
Yeah, I am a speedreader, and I did used to be able to do circa 3000wpm at a push. Good to know that even as a myopic 55YO I can still do half that without trying. Points of comparison: I originally read Hal Clement's classic Mission of Gravity in about 25min, and Joseph Conrad's Victory in about 3 hours.
Yes, there were pictures that communicated the same thing, but people naively thought that those 2348 words may actually hold some additional information, as otherwise ca 2300 of them would be completely superfluous. But they were wrong; again, OP's point. Not sure what's so mystifying by this.
I wish this article was just 3 paragraphs. The verbose writing style was a little tiring, I found myself scrolling impatiently to find what the actual "Lone Banana Problem" was.
This is the biggest communication problem most people have. Say it plain and simple. No one wants to read your train of thought.
I wish this article was just 3 paragraphs. The verbose writing style was a little tiring, I found myself scrolling impatiently to find what the actual "Lone Banana Problem" was.
"Three cats in a trenchcoat" is a good one. Three cats in a trenchcoat standing on each other's shoulders, pretending to be a human, Vincent Adultman style. You can get them standing side by side wearing trenchcoats. You can get a cat pyramid or a cat totem or a stack or tower of cats (though often the ability to count to three is then lost). You can't get them to share the trenchcoat. Nothing like that occurred in a…
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On /r/midjourney subreddit there are posts like "the most stereotypical person in [state/country]", "what midjourney thinks professors look like based on their department". You can see some interesting biases in the training data. https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/top/?sort=top&t=year
I wouldn't use "bias" here. It's a very ambiguous term in machine learning.
Midjourney solution: "--no bunch, two, multiple": https://i.imgur.com/QnJmLr0.jpeg These models have a tendency to move towards the average, especially if unprompted. As we see here, sometimes even if prompted otherwise. They just have to get better or need a more precise interface like the —no :). We also couldn't have "a man crawling" before and now we can: https://i.imgur.com/ycVpk3i.jpeg
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Yeah, I am a speedreader, and I did used to be able to do circa 3000wpm at a push. Good to know that even as a myopic 55YO I can still do half that without trying. Points of comparison: I originally read Hal Clement's classic Mission of Gravity in about 25min, and Joseph Conrad's Victory in about 3 hours.
Right, so your 90 seconds is actually closer to 10 minutes for most people. That's a lot of time to communicate "AI tends to render one banana as two bananas", which was OP's point. Yes, there were pictures that communicated the same thing, but people naively thought that those 2348 words may actually hold some additional information, as otherwise ca 2300 of them would be completely superfluous. But they were wrong;…
As I said, the title of the article and a couple of image captions are enough to get the gist, and as such, I find it baffling that so many people seem to have totally failed to understand it.