• mekhosM
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    122 years ago

    Pull funding into academia like a magician pulling an endless scarf out of their sleeve.

  • I still think calling any of these poorly trained algorithms “AI” is an insult to the very concept of intelligence, artificial or otherwise. It’s like training a very single-minded dog, but one that can’t do general learning and apply what it learns to dissimilar problem spaces. I’m very salty about everyone just accepting the empty marketing coopting of the terminology.

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        most of these so-called “AI” implementations are just self-optimizing algorithms trained with incomplete or biased data for a very specific problem. A lot of them can’t even do something in the same problem space that wasn’t part of their training data correctly.

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          Oh yeah I see what you mean. I struggle with discerning them though.

          I worry that the training data for deepfakes is suspiciously normative. (there seems to be no neurodiverse, queer, or (physically) disabled people in those training sets).

          • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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            32 years ago

            Well first deepfakes need to die. It’s a dangerous tech that should not exist at all and does not need any more research.

            To be fair, i haven’t dug into deepfake models, but i assume you would train them on the specific person you’re trying to deepfake: i mean for basic video stuff going with a pre-trained model may be ok but for audio there’s no way you can get away with it ;)

  • @MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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    112 years ago

    I’ve got a copy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that was remastered/upscaled using AI. I found the difference in quality to be impressive and a very clever DIY way of working around Paramount delaying its own proper remastering using original footage.

    • mekhosM
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      62 years ago

      I did that recently with a game off f-droid called nonocross…does that make me valuable? Someone…anyone?

      • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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        62 years ago

        The difference is “AI” took dozens of billions of tries to “learn” to play those games. More like bruteforcing into a problem not intelligence ;)