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Winemom Herzog

@symbo1ics.bsky.social

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WHsymbo1ics.bsky.socialJan 29, 2024 12:00am

Symbolic AI & (often biomimicking) search/optimising algorithms are exciting because it can produce UNEXPECTED, non-obvious results that are hard for humans to find. Generative shit only comes up with the bleeding obvious—but far less efficiently &worse than a human could; it can only interpolate.

WHsymbo1ics.bsky.socialAug 11, 2024 10:07pm

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corporatewarrior.bsky.socialAug 11, 2024 10:04pm

from cory doctorow on @zitron.bsky.social’s better offline recent episode on conservatism of predictive machine learning

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Who's very smart about this and who was the first person to point this out that I encountered which is that Al and indeed all statistical methods of prediction are intrinsically conservative because if what you're doing is predicting what should happen next based on what already happened, what you're doing is you're driving a future that looked like the past.
So think of it this way, you pick up your distraction rectangle and you type hey, and then it finishes it with darling because that's what you type every time.
That's what I call my clients.
You might want to type hey asshole, but it wants you to type hey darling. Now, if you type something you've never typed before, it's going to pick the thing that most people say. So you're going to get either the statistically average version of who you used to be or the statistically average version of who everyone is.
There is something intrinsically and inseparably conservative about the project of making the fu

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You might want to type hey asshole, but it wants you to type hey darling. Now, if you type something you've never typed before, it's going to pick the thing that most people say. So you're going to get either the statistically average version of who you used to be or the statistically average version of who everyone is.
There is something intrinsically and inseparably conservative about the project of making the future look like the past. Now, I want to mention something that again I learned from Brian's very excellent book Blood In The Machine, which is that Frankenstein was a Luddite novel and was widely understood as a Luddite novel. It's a cautionary tale about what happens when an entrepreneur gets to build a machine without talking to his neighbors about what it should do.
It was really widely understood as this. The irony here, and I say this as a fully paid up member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and a science fiction novelist, the irony

WHsymbo1ics.bsky.socialAug 2, 2024 2:02pm

This is well put: bsky.app/profile/reiv...

RHreiverhorse.bsky.socialJul 10, 2024 1:24pm

There's a difference between analytical AI and generative AI. LLMs that look for trends or break down scientific research can be useful - because it's trained on focussed data. Generative AI is just fed everything like a vaccuum and expected to 'imagine' or create like a human - which it isn't/can't

WHsymbo1ics.bsky.socialJun 8, 2024 4:34am

Chris Miller tweeted: "There is no generative AI in Beyond the Spider-Verse and there never will be. [A goal] of the films is to create new visual styles that have never been seen… not steal the generic plagiarized average of other artists’ work." 7:39 PM · Jun 1, 2024 bsky.app/profile/flyi...

MLflyingtrilobite.comJun 8, 2024 1:31am

Chris Miller of the SpiderVerse movies has said they will not be using generative AI, despite the head of Sony’s recent statement about using it to cut costs.

WHsymbo1ics.bsky.socialFeb 2, 2024 2:11am

a bit more bsky.app/profile/this...

XMthisblackmagic.bsky.socialFeb 1, 2024 8:32pm

Let's do this. If you take away nothing else, take this: Even the most advanced LLM is human-driven. They're all the George Carlin AI. The Wizard of Oz. Mechanical Turks. Just some guy. Except it's thousands of guys. Let's talk about a million monkeys with a million typewriters. Let's go. 🧵

Nnightpups.bsky.socialAug 2, 2024 2:26pm

why I stick for machine learning for the first, and ai for the generative sludge machines

Winemom Herzog

@symbo1ics.bsky.social

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