Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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— shardcore ⧖ (@erocdrahs) July 31, 2024

Some of those in open sources
Are the same who train on corpuses

lol

lmao

I'm really amazed how quickly suno and udio have developed. Despite the stunni g results however I can't imagine anyone caring about the songs it can make

xxp lool

IDK if I'm just reading what I know into them, but the missing element seems to be a sense that there was a writer or performer or even engineer in there somewhere who actually cared about the song. It gives them a very throwaway quality.

Still pretty amazing what it can do.

the amount of raw computing power that has been organized and applied to these programs is extremely impressive and the results are also amazing compared to what was being accomplished just a decade ago. but every recent attempt to apply this technology to fill the needs of the general public has been pretty weak sauce. Google's ads for its new AI interface wants me to believe that "summarize this email" is a compelling application for this wondrous technology. nope

Gary Marcus has been ruthless about that. He’s a fun follow for generative AI skeptics like myself

He's good but it is also partly about him in a draggy way - I was rolling my eyes at the Open Letter to Yann LeCun: We believe the same things! Admit I'm better!
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun

do you think this cover art is ai

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AWilliam+Dube&s=relevancerank&text=William+Dube&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

"Gooey Louie and the Mystery of the Vanishing Vegetables"

the hand is suspiciously accurate and the details near the edges seem better than ai usually does. i'd rate it as human-generated, but empty of any feel for humanity

I think the magnifying glass, that thinks it's a mirror, slicing into the guys' head gives it away as ai to me

ha yeah def ai

AI as fuck, as is the text of the book.

Gary Marcus is a fucking idiot. Yann, however, is great and actually understands what he writes about. Hell, I first bonded with Yann however his love of Euroracks (he is my former boss).

He’s also a massive snob and extremely French so he’s a fantastic ally in the “most of this art sucks” battle.

"He's good but it is also partly about him in a draggy way - I was rolling my eyes at the Open Letter to Yann LeCun: We believe the same things! Admit I'm better!
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun";

This reminds me of a reddit subreddit called r/linkedinlunatics, which is full of incredibly pompous people turning their everyday experience into TED talks. Including a chap who uses his engagement as a vehicle for a lecture on B2B sales, a chap who grudgingly admits that he loved his late wife more than he loved cybersecurity, and this chap, who seems to think that adding +AI to the end of scientific equations actually adds... AI to them, or something. I find it heartening that even though the passage of time has robbed me of so much, I can still write very simple HTML, or very simple pseudo-HTML.

Headlining the essay "a memo for future intellectual historians" is particularly striking. I can get away with that sort of thing, because I don't seriously believe that I'm an intellectual titan whose words will resonate through history - although, ironically, they will - whereas this chap, and I apologise for continually saying "this chap", it's just that I have a very limited vocabulary, but that's by design, because I want my message to reach as many people as possible. The BAC 1-11 remained in production until 1984 in my opinion yes it is AI.

In the past month these giants of the U.S. economy have been faltering. On Friday, the Nasdaq, an index of 100 tech companies’ shares, had fallen more than 11 percent from its peak in early July, entering a technical correction, after the likes of Google and Meta revealed that their spending on AI technology had far exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. “This is an amazing about-face, like we’ve crashed into a brick wall,” Bill Stone, chief investment officer at Glenview Trust, told Bloomberg.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/wall-streets-usd2-trillion-ai-reckoning.html

somehow i think they will recover

but will the ai hype

god you know it will

the reason i think it wont is because as evidenced by that article is its just too expensive, you dont even have to get to the point where people realize that its not living up to the hype, even the biggest companies on earth just cant afford it, which is wild

the saddest tech hypecycle had to be the metaverse no one except tech writers pushing out puff pieces ever thought it was cool, literally no one ever logged on, completely doa

the metaverse is real, it's just called Fortnite

sam altman was asking for trillions of dollars to fund chip making, i think he was actually kinda serious!

wild times

I'm worried about computers

reasonable

again, I may point out that a major reason SV is All In on Trump (see what I did there) is to get his administration to shovel tax dollars to subsidize that mirage.

yup

pretty funny they think trump will honor their agreement after the election but i guess its all theyve got

Trump has been pretty consistent in keeping his promises to corporations and the rich.

has he feel like he pretty much just went along with whatever the gop establishment wanted

He and the establishment are of the same mind in shoveling money upward, eviscerating regulations, and lowering taxes on the rich. He’s no maverick economically.

Trummp is a crypto bro

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-stockpile-6f1314f5e99bbf47cc3ee6fc6178588d

again, I may point out that a major reason SV is All In on Trump (see what I did there) is to get his administration to shovel tax dollars to subsidize that mirage.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, August 5, 2024 8:51 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I read the last two words of this as “thai massage” and whew

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.

Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuffhttps://t.co/FQYLQDaF1q

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) August 6, 2024

Xp subsidized ladyboys for us all!

There's a trend on Chinese social media where they imitate AI videos and it's beautiful pic.twitter.com/wdzaOBn0wd

— Orikron 🇵🇹 (@orikron) August 15, 2024

Found another pic.twitter.com/0CKY9miCyU

— RiceBro 🇹🇼 (@Ricefarmingguy) August 15, 2024

lol

Those are amazing

lmao they are so spot on

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1etko9h/family_poisoned_after_using_aigenerated_mushroom/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

AI mushroom identification book puts family in the hospital

Yes, in a way, learning to craft the correct prompt is the new transferrable skill

phew pic.twitter.com/8VtvfPnhCX

— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) August 13, 2024

...as long as you can create a quirky atmosphere, your job is safe

We’re never going there. Creativity is made, not generated.
You can read more at https://t.co/9Fgh460KVu ✨ #procreate #noaiart pic.twitter.com/AnLVPgWzl3

— Procreate (@Procreate) August 18, 2024

I recognize their CEO is describing a hypothetical feature that generates an image from a natural language prompt but the idea of engineers trying to write an image editor without interpolation is amusing.

...But it’s also utterly arbitrary. The arbitrariness is what makes it bad. It’s also what makes the vast majority of art generated by AI bad.

A lot of life (maybe all of it) really is pointless and arbitrary. But humans (I will venture to say) developed art to suggest the ways in which it might not be. Art — like love, like religion — is a human invention. Its deepest purpose is to subdue death and contain the chaos, waywardness and brutal indifference of the world around us. (If you’re wondering whether beauty has a role, of course it does. That’s what beauty is — a container of chaos, alloyed to a love of life.)

It’s true that some very important 20th century artists (Marcel Duchamp, for instance) deliberately embraced chance and randomness in ways that could be said to anticipate the arbitrariness of AI. But in Duchamp’s case, that’s because he had just seen the world fall apart. As an artist, he was drawn to the idea that life had meaning and purpose. But as a human — as a witness to reality — he felt compelled to acknowledge the almost overwhelming evidence that it didn’t.

AI-generated art isn’t disturbed or even mildly ruffled by this dynamic. It isn’t exercised by the idea that life might or might not have meaning, because it isn’t human. Therefore it can’t care. The algorithms create an illusion of meaning (“Oh, wow, it’s almost as if it knows what I want!”). But its deeper premise is randomness, pointlessness, vacancy. Nothing fundamentally matters to an algorithm.

Arsham’s sculpture of Chan has a special, 3D-printed, gorgeously fabricated look. If you’re into technique (how did he do that?) and finish, it’s super impressive. But it’s also arbitrary, just like the feature on Meta that allows Zuckerberg to imagine himself as “a streetwear designer in LA.”

And so the question is: Is this what most sculpture, or indeed most art, will look like in the future? Given the endless possibilities of AI, is this where we’re all headed?

It’s an amazing thought, on the one hand: You just have to imagine something and AI will (more or less) give it to you.

But if absolutely anything is possible, how amazing, or funny, or even just briefly cool will AI-generated views of the world continue to seem? What will happen when the large language models begin to feed on their own output? Will the results get more interesting, because they’re weirder, or less, because they’re even less human?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/08/20/priscilla-chan-statue-mark-zuckerberg-daniel-arsham/
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