UniversalMomentum t1_ix26hsu wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:09 AM

Reply to comment by blueSGL in 2023 predictions by ryusan8989

I just see real AI as not having a ton of uses compared to just simple things like funding new drug and novel material designs using good ol fashion machine learning.

Yeah it's neat you can draw using fake AI/machine learning, but things like that are not as important as cancer vaccines and graphene nano structures, for instance.

AsuhoChinami t1_ix2s26c wrote on November 20, 2022 at 8:20 AM

While I agree, I think improved AI will likewise be better at advancing medical tech.

botfiddler t1_ix4keuj wrote on November 20, 2022 at 6:31 PM

Image generators aren't that much more human-like than some protein folding simulation AI. They still don't know what any of this in the picture means. Both is important, though. Imagine crushing big corporations oligopoly on content creation. Someone who could make a comic on his own, could make five with his characters, much faster. Or he could at some point make an anime based on his characters.

AsuhoChinami t1_ix5r14w wrote on November 20, 2022 at 11:20 PM

I think AI has to have some kind of understanding in order to perform so well. AI in the past performed poorly because it obviously had poor understanding. I think "AI has no understanding" is kind of an unfalsifiable argument - it's kind of suspect that something which has no form of understanding whatsoever could produce such accurate and well-formed results, but it's also something that's impossible to argue for or against.

botfiddler t1_ix6fi2m wrote on November 21, 2022 at 2:30 AM

Yeah, well, I'd say it understands how the words in the prompt relate to certain image elements and how those relate to each other. Nothing outside, to physics, human meaning of such pictures, ...

CriminalizeGolf t1_ix9p3k7 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 8:35 PM

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

There is a philosophy thought experiment related to the difference between functional understanding and "true" understanding

blueSGL t1_ix4n90v wrote on November 20, 2022 at 6:49 PM

I see image generation as an easy 'foot in the door', something that can be played with locally that will get people into the space that was never interested in any sort of AI/ML before. That's the true boon of this sort of tech going out there it will be helping with other advancements just not directly.