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TitaniumDragon's avatar

Describing something that an artist is unfamiliar with and providing reference images is standard practice for commissioning art.

This doesn't mean that artists lack comprehension of "concepts", it means that you have to describe things in ways that people understand.

While these AIs don't actually understand anything, this is irrelevant to why they are useful.

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David Hsing's avatar

I wasn't talking about whether something is useful or not. Dumb doorknobs are useful. The point remains that they don't deal with concepts.

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May 22, 2024
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Models are themselves instructions, and machine instructions carry zero meaning for machines themselves. I've repeated my explanation in many different places and this LI post is one of them: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dhsing_anthropomorphism-ai-education-activity-7198133462703169536-REho/

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Uh, meaning is understanding.

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I've started an email thread as you've requested. Living beings are not "just wiring". That's an extremely shallow conception.

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