“Over time, it became a master at [Diplomacy], reportedly achieving ‘more than double the average score’ of human players and ranking in the top 10 percent of people who played more than one game.”
(Andy Baio adds “building extremely persuasive AIs that are more effective negotiators than humans, what could go wrong”.)
“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2.”
“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’ hues.”
“[Leasing] agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they were often peers of the people they were renting to. ‘We said there’s way too much empathy going on here,’ he said. ‘This is one of the reasons we wanted to get pricing off-site.'”
“For years, many linguists have believed that learning language is impossible without a built-in grammar template. The new AI models … demonstrate that the ability to produce grammatical language can be learned from linguistic experience alone.”
“[I]t was common for deepfake audio to result in vocal tracts with the same relative diameter and consistency as a drinking straw, in contrast to human vocal tracts, which are much wider and more variable in shape.”
“I’ve never felt so conflicted using an emerging technology as DALL·E 2, which feels like borderline magic in what it’s capable of conjuring, but raises so many ethical questions, it’s hard to keep track of them all.”
“Here is where it gets interesting. If I use the same prompt and add ‘Amazing awesome and epic’, the picture gets noticeably better. ‘Oh,’ goes the neural net, ‘you wanted a good picture’. And how good a picture you get depends on exactly how you ask for it. There are several phrases you can add that seem to make things better, like ‘trending on artstation’ or ‘unreal engine’.”
“I did consider running the Peanuts text through a GPT2 text generator, allowing the system to write the words as well — novel words, in the style of Peanuts. Would this take me closer to committing a crime? If the resulting output becomes indistinguishable from original works, is the model guilty, or am I?”