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I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by tomatowurst »

mathgladiator wrote: post #25

Here is the dream... I plug my brain into a fully immersive wolrd within an AI driven Marvel movie that lasts my entire life. The matrix may actually be awesome, so sign me up as a coppertop.

well what is perception? It is mostly visual, sensory, temporal, olifactory, auditory and sensory. Visual audio have received far more attention than the other areas. We still don't have digital smell generator, we don't have micro tactile bodysuits with genital stimulation, nor do we have digital taste.

In the future, once we have complete mastery of all facets of human sensory inputs, we can record and manipulate experiences.

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Post by mdale »

woleium wrote: post #7
tikkun wrote: post #2

The future of ai generated content and entertainment is going to be wild! How long before we have ~unlimited high quality entertainment? Before an AI can generate infinite episodes of your favorite show, podcast, comedian, and so on. Going to be an interesting thing to watch unfold.

~unlimited twitter bot content!

I think we already have that ;)

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by methodin »

tomatowurst wrote: post #31
mathgladiator wrote: post #25

Here is the dream... I plug my brain into a fully immersive wolrd within an AI driven Marvel movie that lasts my entire life. The matrix may actually be awesome, so sign me up as a coppertop.

well what is perception? It is mostly visual, sensory, temporal, olifactory, auditory and sensory. Visual audio have received far more attention than the other areas. We still don't have digital smell generator, we don't have micro tactile bodysuits with genital stimulation, nor do we have digital taste. In the future, once we have complete mastery of all facets of human sensory inputs, we can record and manipulate e…

I imagine the ultimate goal is to stimulate the responses in the brain not to physically use the senses. It would most likely feel as real as a dream which feels real during it.

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by ravi-delia »

erichmond wrote: post #30

I'm conflicted but interested in how all this plays out. Traditionally stories, music, art, dance were mediums for humans to express ideas/culture/transmit stories/history to other humans. When we get to a point where AI is able to generate an infinite stream of TikTok dances, jazz, film scripts, etc. It will be interesting to see how that affects society. When you remove the soul, what is/was the point of entertainm…

I think it'll either turn out the soul was latent in the training data, or AI generated art will always be distinguishable. My money is on the first, but we're a little ways away yet.

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Post by ravi-delia »

outworlder wrote: post #24
snek_case wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to say because even a model like GPT-3 is limited in its ability to generate a textual story that remains coherent over time. When you're talking about generating video, you need to have lots of story and visual details remaining coherent over a very long time horizon. Generally speaking, I think this is an area where deep neural networks are fairly weak and symbolic AI shines. It's much easier to program a…

> It's hard to say because even a model like GPT-3 is limited in its ability to generate a textual story that remains coherent over time. Just like most dreams. Can still be entertaining.

In a limited capacity. Any dream I'm even a little aware of becomes extremely boring, frustrating, and claustrophobic. Even the good ones become nightmares without anything changing. That might just be me though, maybe GPT could cook up dreams which don't suck

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Post by thorum »

snek_case wrote: post #11
tikkun wrote: post #2

The future of ai generated content and entertainment is going to be wild! How long before we have ~unlimited high quality entertainment? Before an AI can generate infinite episodes of your favorite show, podcast, comedian, and so on. Going to be an interesting thing to watch unfold.

It's hard to say because even a model like GPT-3 is limited in its ability to generate a textual story that remains coherent over time. When you're talking about generating video, you need to have lots of story and visual details remaining coherent over a very long time horizon. Generally speaking, I think this is an area where deep neural networks are fairly weak and symbolic AI shines. It's much easier to program a…

I suspect the solution to keeping a long story coherent is using the model at different levels of abstraction. A human writer doesn’t sit down and write a complete novel in one sitting. They go through a process of planning, character development, world building and so on. When they write a scene, they’re not holding every detail about the rest of the book in their mind, they’re narrowing down to the details that matter for that scene.

So instead of asking the AI to write a novel in one go, why not guide it through a similar process? At each step, pass in information from previous steps as context, focusing on just the details it needs at that step. Have it generate a summary, then a setting, then characters in that setting, then break the plot into chapters, and then scenes, and so on…

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by dqpb »

mathgladiator wrote: post #25

Here is the dream... I plug my brain into a fully immersive wolrd within an AI driven Marvel movie that lasts my entire life. The matrix may actually be awesome, so sign me up as a coppertop.

This sounds far-fetched, until you count the hours per day that people currently spend in front of one screen or another, and then it doesn’t sound far-fetched at all.

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Post by Swizec »

dragonwriter wrote: post #27
lmm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've had practically unlimited entertainment for most purposes for at least the last couple of decades. There's far more e.g. TV being produced than anyone could watch in one lifetime.

> There's far more e.g. TV being produced than anyone could watch in one lifetime. But is there far more of what any particular person would want to watch being produced than they would want to watch? Does anyone in the mood to watch something ever accept a less-than-preferred substitute? If so, there is meaningful room for improvement in selection. (Not that I think AI is anywhere close to making a dent in it direct…

> But is there far more of what any particular person would want to watch being produced than they would want to watch?

The older I get the more true this becomes. There’s so many things I want to watch or read that I’ll never get to.

Best you can do is prioritize by some heuristic, watch/read/listen the top N%, hope you prioritized correctly, and bail at the earlies sign of mis-fit.

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