Yeah. I thought the adoption system was overly restrictive, if anything.

Was it a particularly unusual car colour and number of roommates? I feel like generally those two pieces of information wouldn't be enough.

Well, some of the information we do know she would have had is quite unique. Like it sounds like the boy told her how many adopted kids the man had, and that they were all boys, which surely can't match up to too many different people. She would have also known that the boy who called was turning 18 within a few days. It was quite a long call so I imagine the details she had would have been enough to narrow in on the correct person if she was able to get in touch with people with access to the right databases.

Yup. People seem to view rising inequality as inevitable, but we got to where we are now somehow.

No way does Midjourney do faces better than SD. I say this as someone who has used both extensively. I've used SD to fix the faces in some of my MJ images. I will say that SD sometimes does pretty bad at smaller/more distant faces in images, but up close it's amazing. You just have to use a decent model with it. Midjourney does have some strength over SD, though. It's very good at creating attractive images just as a default. You could type in absolute nonsense as a prompt and it would probably spit out something pretty.

That's a very good point, actually. We don't look at the rich today and say wow, their lives must be so sad an empty because they don't have to work unless they choose to.

Sure, but we will still be able to work on things, just maybe not have paid careers. You will always be able to learn a skill, raise a family, travel, make a garden, etc.

What does that have to do with careers? I made no claims that they were perfect and pure people, just that established careers aren't some innate part of human existence.

Originally it was just collecting food and basic cooking and crafting, raising families, etc. No huge aspirations and a lot more down time than we get today. Heck, there are still communities of humans today that live that way.

Sure, but my point is that humans existed and got on just fine when we were just living in small communities and taking care of our day to day needs. The rest came later.

It's so weird to me that so many people think having a career is a crucial part of our lives when careers are a modern invention. There's no reason why we couldn't find satisfaction in other things. Things we actually enjoy.

Yup. As long as there are open source models, things may stop getting better, but they can't get worse. But also they probably will get better, because it's the community that provides a lot of the improvements, not people trying to make money.

It's not necessarily just the amount but also the type of hate.

Yup. I think if anything this shows it probably wasn't individually programmed to respond to particular things and is just making its judgements based on the hate that it sees in its data.

Exactly. It may just mean that it's more familiar with hate directed at some groups than others because of how it plays out in the real world, so it's more likely to perceive hate against groups who are often the target of hate as malicious.

The training data is massive and usually not carefully curated because they need so much of it.

It has magic vibes to it. Like how if you understand how "magic" functions, it's just science, not magic.

I find them interesting sometimes. Subs like this seem like the place for it.

I think the kind of rolls we're starting to get in things like Automatic1111 will change the question of whether editing the images is sufficient because at a certain point it goes far beyond simply commissioning a piece. You're manually changing the work in minute detail. There's also Controlnet now, which can take the pose from another image. If I use a photo I took for the pose in the image, what then? It gets complicated.

I suspect that's their actual goal, though whether they'll succeed remains to be seen. Spam, basically, with just enough of a veneer of legitimacy that it might not be noticed at a glance.

Yup. I use it for editing sometimes, and even that can easily be frustrating and get off track with things.

I think it's possible for an AI to break its own rules in unexpected ways without it needing to be particularly intelligent, especially with something as complex as this. Giving it rules it can't break is the hard part.

If it was specifically taught to do this test, it is much less impressive because it probably means it won't have that level of intuition and understanding with other tasks.

Fine-tuned towards taking these sorts of tests, or just more optimised in general?

This is interesting because the questions seem to be reasoning based, which is much more impressive than some of the other tests AI have done well at that are more based on knowing a lot of information, something you'd expect a LLM to excel at beyond the abilities of a typical human.