Damn it Bobby
For all its flaws, this is damn impressive that it can sound intelligent
I just tried this exact prompt with bing image creator.
The result looks like my first tries with photoshop:
Ah yes, salmon flying downstream for the winter.
There, now they’re going north as god intended
This looks kinda cool ngl
It likes levitating fish!
Image: fish flying half a metre above water. Also, is that upstream? Also, also is that even a Salmon?
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm. Not a proponent of AI, but this is actually somewhat correct.
A well-documented phenomena regarding salmon are the salmon runs, where salmon migrate up rivers in order to mate.
They are quite often shown leaping out of the water to fight currents, to the point that grizzly bears have made it a hunting practice to wait at the top of rapids and grab the salmon out of the air.
It got the fish wrong. Though. I think that coloration is more like a trout, but in reality it’s a whateverthefucktheaifeelslike fish
Yes, I know that salmon spawn upstream. I was making a comment on the chaotic water situation.
That’s magical.
They can fly! Always suspected it, here’s the proof!1!!1!
So majestic
AI, confused by this post: “What’s wrong? I know what Salmon looks like, I know what rivers look like, and this seems perfect!”
That’s great
Something concerning (not from a Luddite perspective, more from a lack-of-Universal Basic Income perspective) is 40% of translators have lost work to LLMs as of reporting from a few months ago. Highly technical folks haven’t much been bothered though. Wonder how this plays out ten years from now.
I noticed AI creeping in all WordPress translation plugins for a few months now.
Many are still in the new beta phase, but a lot launched full fledged AI translation.
It’s also in most sitebuilders like elementor, wp-bakery and the likes by now.
It enables creating customized widgets, like combining an existing bullet list widget with an image widget or enhancing it with frontend editing.
Depending on how good and reliable this gets, it could wipe out this particular group of wordpress theme modders, which are quite a few.
Edit: there’s one area in which AI is really welcome and job safe: creating copy text and images when building sites. It always looks better with content and sometimes it would take too much time to get a presentable website filled with dummy content by hand.
Now you define your theme in the prompt and the magic happens.
I’m guessing the actual prompt was “Generate an image of raw salmon fillets in a river”, and the entire point was to meme the hell out of it. Here’s what you actually get if you do the test in good faith. No levitating, no raw fillets, just salmon in a river.
It’s not about AI having God like intellect.
It’s about AI not having all that much to catch up to. I know we are slaves to our ridiculous egos, so ridiculous we constantly invent new ficticious supernatural forces that must have created us in their hypermagical, divine, amazing, perfect image (talk about hallucinating), but we aren’t all that.
We wandered around for the vast majority of our existence, about 200k years, before it occurred to some of us we could grow food in one place.
AI not having all that much to catch up to.
That’s what you think. But we will sooner have fusion power than AGI. Comparing it with the developement of personal computers, we’re currently at the stage of punchcard weaving machines.
And you base this on what? Both things are very hard to predict even for experts in the respective fields.
Experts in both fields have significant paychecks on the line for people believing them. Of the two, fusion is the only one showing (very minor) measurable progress.
We can’t even define what success would look like for AGI.
AGI is software with human like intelligence that can self-improve and the last two years is very measurable progress. We went from essentially nothing to multimodal models that can run on consumer hardware. OpenAIs new model, if they are to believed, is apparently much better at reasoning and can do long term research. I’ve also seen a few papers in the wild talking about self teaching methods and framework.
To be clear, I don’t know which will come first. It’s hard to know if the next leap is just a step or if there’s a giant chasm laying infront. I do know that it’s a lot easier to prototype with AI then fusion and there’s a lot more people working on it, both behind closed doors and publically on the internet. Fusion doesn’t have this advantage.
Your statement is basically a shot in the dark imo.
The problem isn’t that AI is going to catch up.
It doesn’t need to.
As long as it’s “good enough” then it’ll replace us because it’ll save the owners 0.01% in operational costs.
Looks delicious. I’d snatch them out like a grizzly.
You must be built! Snatching grizzlies!
