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Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by zackmorris »

Apologies for an open-ended question but: does anyone know if there is a term for something like Turing-completeness within AI, where a certain level of intelligence can simulate any other type of intelligence like our brains do?

For example, using DeMorgan's theorem, we can build any logic circuit out of all NAND or NOR gates:

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/boolean/demorgan.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOR_logic

Dall-E 2's level of associative comprehension is so far beyond the old psychology bots in the console pretending to be people, that I can't help but wonder if it's reached a level where it can make any association.

For example, I went to an AI talk about 5 years ago where the guy said that any of a dozen algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor, K-Means Clustering, Simulated Annealing, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, etc can all be adapted to any use case. They just have different strengths and weaknesses. At that time, all that really mattered was how the data was prepared.

I guess fundamentally my question is, when will AGI start to become prevalent, rather than these special-purpose tools like GPT-3 and Dall-E 2? Personally I give it less than 10 years of actual work, maybe less. I just mean that to me, Dall-E 2 is already orders of magnitude more complex than what's required to run a basic automaton to free humans from labor. So how can we adapt these AI experiments to get real work done?

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by Spinnaker_ »

agloeregrets wrote: post #55

The most interesting item to me is the variations on the garden shop and bathroom sink idea. The realism of these leaks the AI lacking intuition of the requirements. This makes for a number of nonsensical designs that look right at first like: This Sink lacks sensical faucets. https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e-2/demos/variations/modified/ba... This doorway is downright impossible https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e-2/demos/var…

"Doorway in the style of Escher"

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by methehack »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #107
andybak wrote: post #3

Preventing Harmful Generations We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent, hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces, including those of public figures. "And we've also closed off a huge range of potentially int…

If you went to an artist who takes commissions and they said "Here are the guidelines around the commissions I take" would you complain in the same way? Who cares if it's a bunch of engineers or an artist. If they have boundaries on what they want to create, that's their prerogative.

What if you were inventing a language (or a programming language)... If you decided to prevent people from saying things you disagreed (assuming you could work out the technical details of doing so) with would it be moral to do so? [edited for clarity]

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by cwillu »

photochemsyn wrote: post #35
impostervt wrote: post #9

Very cool stuff. For me, the most interesting was the ability to take a piece of art and generate variations of it. Have a favorite painter? Here's 10,000 new paintings like theirs.

Well, one of my favorite painters is Henri Rousseau, and one of his great paintings is War, 1984: https://www.henrirousseau.net/war.jsp However, this painting has themes of violence and politics plus some nude dead bodies, so it violates the content policy: "Our content policy does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content, among other categories." So what you'd get is some kind of sanitized wa…

“Criticize?! It is meant to draw blood! It is Art! Art!”

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by recuter »

andybak wrote: post #143
recuter wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is compositing as final step. I understand that the Kuala it is compositing may have been a previously un-existent Kuala that it synthesized from a library of previously tagged Kuala images... that's cool, but what is the difference really from just plucking one of the pre-existing Kualas into the scene? The difference is just that it makes the compositing easier. If you don't have a pre-existing image that would…

> It is compositing as final step. I might be misinterpeting your use of "compositing" here (and my own technical knowledge is fairly shallow) but I don't think there's any compositing of elements generally in AI image generation. (unless Dall-E 2 changes this. I haven't read the paper yet)

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

> Given an image x, we can obtain its CLIP image embedding zi and then use our decoder to “invert” zi, producing new images that we call variations of our input. .. It is also possible to combine two images for variations. To do so, we perform spherical interpolation of their CLIP embeddings zi and zj to obtain intermediate zθ = slerp(zi, zj , θ), and produce variations of zθ by passing it through the decoder.

From the limitations section:

> We find that the reconstructions mix up objects and attributes.

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by pingeroo »

0F wrote: post #144
pingeroo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean was he really wrong? As models like OpenAI Codex get more powerful over time, they will start eating into large chunks of dev work as well...

Literally everyone on this website is in denial. They all approach it by asking which fields will be safe. No field is safe. “But it’s not going to happen for a long time.” Climate deniers say the same thing and you think they should be wearing the dunce hat? The average person complains bitterly about climate deniers who say that it’s “my grandkids problem lol” but when I corner the average person into admitting AI…

I agree that many of us are not seeing the writing on the wall. It does give me some hope that folks like Andrew Yang are starting to pop up, spreading awareness about, and proposing solutions to the challenges we are soon to face.

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by [deleted] »

recuter wrote: post #123
Imnimo wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actual image generation - the 'decoder' takes as input a latent code (representing the encoding of the text query), and synthesizes an image. It's not compositing or querying a reference library. The only time that real images enter the process is during training - after that, it's just the network weights.

It is compositing as final step. I understand that the Kuala it is compositing may have been a previously un-existent Kuala that it synthesized from a library of previously tagged Kuala images... that's cool, but what is the difference really from just plucking one of the pre-existing Kualas into the scene? The difference is just that it makes the compositing easier. If you don't have a pre-existing image that would…

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Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by hamoid »

andybak wrote: post #3

Preventing Harmful Generations We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent, hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces, including those of public figures. "And we've also closed off a huge range of potentially int…

What if explicit, questionable and even illegal content was AI generated instead of involving harm to real humans of all ages?
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