This AI hype cycle has dramatically distorted society's views of what's possible with image upscalers.

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

  • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Statistical associations is not equivalent to a world model, especially because they’re neither deterministic nor even tries to prevent giving up conflicting answers. It models only use of language

    • lightstreamEnglish
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      8 months ago

      It models only use of language

      This phrase, so casually deployed, is doing some seriously heavy lifting. Lanuage is by no means a trivial thing for a computer to meaningfully interpret, and the fact that LLMs do it so well is way more impressive than a casual observer might think.

      If you look at earlier procedural attempts to interpret language programmatically, you will see that time and again, the developers get stopped in their tracks because in order to understand a sentence, you need to understand the universe - or at the least a particular corner of it. For example, given the sentence “The stolen painting was found by a tree”, you need to know what a tree is in order to interpret this correctly.

      You can’t really use language *unless* you have a model of the universe.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        But it doesn’t model the actual universe, it models rumor mills

        Today’s LLM is the versificator machine of 1984. It cares not for truth, it cares for distracting you

        • lightstreamEnglish
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          8 months ago

          They are remarkably useful. Of course there are dangers relating to how they are used, but sticking your head in the sand and pretending they are useless accomplishes nothing.