Also: "Sea-level rise and climatic change threaten the existence of atoll nations. Inundation and erosion are expected to render islands uninhabitable over the next century, forcing human migration"
You're talking about an optimization strategy that's a few hundred thousand years old though. (And might not even be an optimization strategy at all) Its applicability to modern life seems highly dubious considering the massive cultural changes we have been going through.
Although that's not really a good argument: (1) we don't know a lot about anything outside our solar system and (2) if this has happened a second time on earth it would be impossible for us to know since that thing would most likely have been destroyed by one of the first generation organisms.
Volkswagen just announced their next generation electric car that will be similar to the normal Golf/Polo and cost under 25k€ (which would be quite normal for an ICE car like this). I would be positive that the cost will go down significantly (and yes even taking into account that batteries might be exchanged to provide a functioning market for used-cars).
> We don't learn by gradient descent, but rather by experiencing an environment in which we perform actions and learn what effects they have.
I'm not sure whether that's really all that different. Weights in the neural network are created by "experiencing an environment" (the text of the internet) as well. It is true that there is no try and error.
> We are not limited to text input: we have 5+ senses.
GPT-4 does accept images as input. Whisper can turn speech into text. This seems like something where the models are already catching up. They (might)for now internally translate everything into text, but that doesn't really seem like a fundamental difference to me.
> We can output a lot more than words: we can output turning a screw, throwing a punch, walking, crying, singing, and more. Also, the words we do utter, we can utter them with lots of additional meaning coming from the tone of voice and body language.
AI models do already output movement (Boston dynamics, self driving cars), write songs, convert text to speech, insert emojis into conversation. Granted, these are not the same model but glueing things together at some point seems feasible to me as a layperson.
> We have innate curiosity, survival instincts and social instincts which, like our pain and pleasure, are driven by gene survival.
That seems like one of the easier problems to solve for an LLM – and in a way you might argue it is already solved – just hardcode some things in there (for the LLM at the moment those are the ethical boundaries for example).
Thanks for the added explanation! German is my mother tongue as well and I also think "Bei diesem Bild habe ich mir nichts gedacht" is very elegant and basically not translatable.
Firstly, I like this project and the art itself. As others have said this is not a new thing in art but I think the presentation, the stamp and everything are quite nice.
Now secondly, obviously the premise is also completely untrue and almost impossible to achieve: The artist did have something in mind when painting these pictures: to paint pictures where only the viewer is meant to decipher the meaning while the artist themself has nothing in mind. He or she also did paint something aesthetically pleasing so there seems to be a lot of intention on that part as well. Painting something without any intention at all seems almost completely impossible to me. (Maybe you could trick somebody else into painting something without them knowing about it – but even then you are still the artist with an intention).
Finally I wanted to address the criticism by some other comments that art critique and galleries are always looking for an artistic intention even if there is none. I don't think that's completely true – I have seen plenty of exhibitions where it is explained that the artist "was just experimenting with form/colors".
"Really understanding the issues" might just mean "deeper neural networks and more input data" for the AI though. If you are already conceding that AI has the same capabilities as most humans your own intelligence will be reached next with a high amount of probability.
I understand almost nothing of the technology behind ChatGPT but even to me it seems obvious that a model designed for natural language processing should not be very good at simple calculation with large numbers – something which is never done in natural language.
It enables action. Knowledge is not pointless but it is not the end goal. An education is not pointless but it is meant to lead to some action afterwards like designing a house after studying architecture. That action might even be creating more knowledge (both by researching and teaching), if you are thinking about a career in academia.
I'm actually not sure whether I fully agree, I think that knowledge can also be a goal in and of itself sometimes.
Interesting. I have heard about this famous speech many times but I have never made the connection to the pastry "Berliner" (or heard anyone mention this association).
Also, as a native German speaker, saying "Ich bin ein Berliner" is not unusual if you are talking about being a citizen of Berlin.
I don't think that was a common association at the time as well. Especially since (pastry) "Berliners" are not called "Berliners" in Berlin but "Pfannkuchen" instead.
In some (online) newspapers it's not uncommon for headlines to be just an interesting quote from the article and not the actual topic of the article. It's somewhat clickbaity and comes from the fact that the headlines are written by different people than the articles.
A laugh track on top of the original laughs (the whole set was filmed in front of a live studio audience)? The audience laughter is an important part of the show, with the person having the most prominent audience laughter being interviewed about her experience 50 years later ("Today I'm rather embarrassed about my laughing" https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/dinner-for...)