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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 amelius »

imaginenore wrote: post #11
mrmondo wrote: post #10

May I suggest that using creepy sketches of young girls may not be the best example if you want people to take your software seriously?

What's creepy about them?

I suppose the images look creepy because of the combination of young age with poses and looks that are not usually associated with girls of such young age.

Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Jack000 wrote: post #9
mistercow wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Post by edanm »

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…

Well, if you had a "coordination oracle", you could probably convert most of the world's people to working on science and technology to advance the human race, and not spending any time on things like sports or fashion (or art). I mean, just cut 5% of the budget the world spends on fashion and use it to pay for science, and we'd have amazing advances.

The problem with this is that most people don't want to do this or think this is ethical in any way. (I'm more conflicted... you could take 5% of what the world spends on fashion to lift everyone out of poverty, too, as another example).

Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Post by anon203597 »

amelius wrote: post #16
imaginenore wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's creepy about them?

I suppose the images look creepy because of the combination of young age with poses and looks that are not usually associated with girls of such young age.

Yes, let's apply cultural standards universally, surely this will make the world a better place. At least professional artists know how to avoid offending anyone's tastes.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Boug...

Re: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

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Post by NegatioN »

mrmondo wrote: post #10

May I suggest that using creepy sketches of young girls may not be the best example if you want people to take your software seriously?

I think this is more a labor of love than an attempt to appeal to the mainstream software community. The authors are also Chinese, where norms are somewhat different than the west.
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