Comment on AI Artefacting
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt’s not about the medium being used, it’s that AI doesn’t know what things are. You and I have a living library of how a 3D object works in space. When you train your artistic abilities, all you’re really doing is perfecting that internal library and learning the techniques to bring it out of your own head.
When you draw an apple, you bring forth the concept of an apple in your mind and then put that down on the page. When an AI draws an apple, it creates a statistically probable image of an apple based on its training data. It doesn’t know what an apple is, it just makes something that was good enough to pass the testing machine.
AIs make products like a dream, because just like in your dreams, there’s no reality to anchor it to. You hallucinate fairly similarly to AIs, even while waking, but your brain then adjusts its guesses using sensory inputs. Like why you can feel the pain of a stubbed toe instantly, if you see it, even though it actual takes the chemical signal some time to get to your brain. Or how your brain will synchronize the sound coming out of someone’s mouth with the image, even though that’s not what is actually happening. And an AI will never be able to do that, because all inputs are identical to it.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Somewhat interestingly, the module of your brain that cooks up the image of an apple doesn’t know what an apple is either. It just knows what they look like. Many modules come together to produce what you consider an apple, then the interpreter module accepts their input and realizes it.
When you decide to draw this, commands are sent to the cerebellum to direct the hands to move your hands to make the realized image. Your cerebellum doesn’t understand what an apple is either, it’s just accepting input to draw specific shapes as directed by various parts of your brain that know how to draw. (And those parts don’t understand what an apple is either, they’re choosing what to draw based on the synaptic information of an apple).
No part of your brain knows what an apple is in isolation. Is easy to think of your brain as having a section for “apple” but it’s actually different parts of the brain keeping their own local records of what an apple is. Combining them creates what an apple is to that brain
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes! Exactly! You had the next thought that I did.