My characterization of it as a Deep Truth might just be a reflection of my ignorance of the current state of the art in AI. But it's still pretty frickin' cool nonetheless.
It's totally impressive! I'm excited for the future of DeepMind and to see what other kinds of things we can build from neural networks. I'm just saying that we have to be careful with what kind of intelligence we ascribe to an algorithm like this. An AI is not going to take over the world by impressing us with its game-playing skills.
I'm usually an AI minimalist, but this level of putting together abstract knowledge blows my mind. Perhaps we're on the brisk of some really crazy things after all. And with that I don't mean crazy effects created from humans (usually) being stupid, but from AI providing meaning cheaply which used to be hard for humans to do.
It's amazing. impressive and fascinating but not superhuman, at least not yet.
Also, you can't really dismiss AI skeptics by associating them with denialists that don't see anything of quality or value of these creations despite all the evidence otherwise.
I still love the deep dream style tho :) Feels the most like the AI is coming up with it's own art by itself for other AIs which I find just the right amount of unsettling
Can't wait to try out the colab links later today! Thanks so much for the great article :)
From a research perspective, this is a win, and I dont want to downplay it.
Its interesting to consider this is the context of deepmind and other "commercial" AI research shops though, and how it stack up against the promises made about AI. One way to look at the headline is that researchers finally found something AI can do, and it turned out to be in some obscure area of number theory. Again, this is cool from a research perspective, connecting to disparate subjects to get a result. But if this is the kind of thing we're finding that AI is good at, what does it say about the commercial hype around it?
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