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

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Post by vbezhenar »

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…

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

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

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Post by yieldcrv »

akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

I had MUCH lower expectations about this article’s images, once I got it to load I was surprised, no, amazed!

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

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Post by jdminhbg »

amelius wrote: post #127
amildie wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "…

> 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. Yeah, but that part can be learned by anyone without a CS degree. Perhaps not everything in software can be automated, but I could see a team of 10 programmers be replaced by 1 person (programmer or not) skillful enough to control a bunch of AI software…

A tool that 10xs programmer productivity will if anything lead to higher demand for programmers, because we're nowhere close to developing 1/10 of the total software the world demands.

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

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Post by kortex »

jedberg wrote: post #105
brundolf wrote: post #72

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A CDN is its own thing- it's distributed across a provider; it can't just be served off a simple box. It requires having or gaining familiarity with a specific provider, as well as other constraints like you have to statically export to the file system (can't just cache responses in memory), and you can't have any dynamic content without standing up a separate server, etc Makes sense for a lot of things, but it comes…

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).

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

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Post by bckr »

Kranar wrote: post #77
akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

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…

> The hands and feet that it draws are almost always mangled

I really, really REALLY don't like this fact and I won't be using or endorsing the technology until it's improved.

I also always hated the "deep dream" pictures of lovecraftian dog horrors

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

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Post by jedberg »

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).

Not sure why you think CDN implies geographically distributed edge hosting. Are you getting that from Cloudflare's marketing? A company that sells a geographically distributed network?

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

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Post by andybak »

thrown_22 wrote: post #135
andybak wrote: post #110

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There's a weird tension between people who say saying "AI is overblown" and people who say "this is the most magical thing I've seen in my lifetime". I lean towards the latter but with a healthy dose of "it's deeply weird and hard to get anything useful from". But that doesn't make it any less magical . And no - it's not "intelligent" in any human sense. But I can't relate to people who pooh-pooh it as if there's not…

AI can be overblown and it can also be magical. This was true for state of the art in 2010: https://xkcd.com/1425/ today you have a free phone app that does both. Of course it also classifies a spoon as a large breasted robin which is why you need a human in the loop. It's even truer in programming.

That xkcd actually claims the opposite: "some things that many people assume to be trivial CS problems actually require advancements in AI"

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

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Post by Sebb767 »

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…

> It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image.

I don't think so. People just need the result, so the AI will simply become a tool of the trade and you won't have any more AI image engineers than you have dedicated Photoshop artists right now.

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

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Post by nawgz »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think this is a comment for which "sources needed" is kind of the bare minimum.

To most people, the "readiness" of self-driving cars doesn't even come about when they would accomplish parity with human drivers across all situations, because they should be better. And we're not even close to parity with human drivers across a large swath of common situations.

Unless you have links showing otherwise...

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