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Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by johnwheeler »

mrandish wrote: post #220
recuter wrote: post #73

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What always bother me with this stuff is, well, you say one approach is more sensible than the other because the images happen to come out more pleasing. But there's no real rhyme or reason, it is a sort of alchemy. Is text encoding strictly worse or is it an artifact of the implementation? And if it is strictly worse, which is probably the case, why specifically? What is actually going on here? I can't argue that th…

> This is a fantastic and time saving photoshop plugin. But what do we have really? Stock photography sales are in the many billions of dollars per year and custom commissioned photography is larger still. That's a pretty seriously sized ready-made market. > But if doesn't spit up exactly what you want can't edit it further. I suspect there's a big startup opportunity in pioneering an easy-to-use interface allowing u…

Or as a precursor to Meta Horizon build a 3D world with speech

https://www.fastcompany.com/90725035/metaverse-horizon-world...

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Post by btdmaster »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #140
minimaxir wrote: post #122

A few comments by someone who's spent way too much time in the AI-generated space: * I recommend reading the Risks and Limitations section that came with it because it's very through: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c... * Unlike GPT-3, my read of this announcement is that OpenAI does not intend to commercialize it, and that access to the waitlist is indeed more for testing its limits (and…

Not-so-open.ai

https://www.eleuther.ai (text, not images, but free as in freedom)

Re: Dall-E 2

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Post by Imnimo »

marcodiego wrote: post #4

Cartoonists, say good-bye to your job.

Maybe one day there will a job for people who are masters of the art of prompt hacking - they know all the special phrases and terms to get Dall-E to output the most aesthetically pleasing images. They guard their magic words like a medieval alchemist guards his formulas. Corporations will pay top-dollar for an expertly-crafted, custom-tailored prompt for their advertising campaign.

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Post by joshcryer »

nope96 wrote: post #213

Is there an 'explain it like I'm 15' for how this works? It seems like black magic. I've been a computer hobbyist since the late 1980's and this is the first time I cannot explain how a computer does what it does. Absolutely the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and I have zero clue how it works.

I'm with you there but we still don't know how it works, just that it does. The method though is you take a bunch of images, you plug them into a multi dimensional array (a nice way of saying a tensor), have some kind of tagging system, and when you ask the system for an answer, it will put one out for you. So for example in the astronaut riding the horse, there is, on some level, a picture of a horse with those similar pixels, that exists in the data of some object tagged 'horse.' Likewise with astronaut. What is important is that the data sets are absolutely massive, with billions of parameters.

Here's a more of a 'not 15 year old' explanation: https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/dalle2/

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Post by plutonorm »

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

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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…

Ignorance is bliss in this case, because this is even more unstoppable than climate change.

You thought climate change is hard to hold up? Try holding up the invention of AI. The whole world is going to have to change and some form of socialism/UBI will have to be accepted, however unpalatable.

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Post by visarga »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #86
tomrod wrote: post #30

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I seem to recall an XKCD that I cannot find, but the premise goes like: When you have a digital display of pixels, if you randomly color pixels at 24 fps then you will eventually display every movie that can be or will ever be made, powerset notwithstanding. This can also be tied to digital audio. In short, while mind-blowingly large, the space of display through digital means is finite.

Sounds a bit like the tower of babel of jorge borges. I imagine most of the videos would be complete random nonsense. I think an AI infused future is going to become increasingly more absurd and surreal, it will lead to a kind of creative and cultural nihilism, if that's the right term. Like the value of originality will become meaningless.

The artist or the audience would have to ultimately select something from all that automated originality.

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Post by plutonorm »

nlh wrote: post #61
pingeroo wrote: post #14

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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...

Large chunks, yes, but all that means is that engineers will move up the abstraction stack and become more efficient, not that engineers will be replaced. Bytecode -> Assembly -> C -> higher level languages -> AI-assisted higher-level languages

Just like all the horses replaced by cars who became traffic police?

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Post by dntrkv »

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 don't think anyone is in denial about this, it's just not something anyone should concern themselves with in the foreseeable future. AI that can replace a dev or designer is nowhere close to becoming a reality. Just because we have some cool demos that show some impressive capabilities in a narrow application does not mean we can extrapolate that capability to something that is many times more complex.

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Post by Jack000 »

snek_case wrote: post #191
swalsh wrote: post #139

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Do you think some of these techniques could be slightly modified, and applied to DNA sequences?

Maybe very very short (single-gene) sequences. The thing with DNA is it's the product of evolution. The DNA guides the synthesis of proteins, then the proteins fold into a 3D shape, and they interact with chemicals in their environment based on their shape. In the context of a living being, different genes interact with each other as well. For example, you have certain cells that secrete hormones (many genes needed t…

This is all true, but it doesn't preclude the possibility of generating DNA. Human share a lot of DNA sequences with other animals, and the genetic differences between individual humans are even smaller. You might have trouble generating a human with horns or something, but a taller one is probably mostly an engineering problem.

What GPT-3 and DALL-E shows is that you can infer a lot based on the latent structure of data, even without understanding the underlying physical process.

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