<story><title>Playing with DALL-E 2</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r99tazGiLgzqFX7ka/playing-with-dall-e-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikelemmon</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s sarcasm, but the author seems to downplay these images. Are we really that jaded? This seems like criticizing a dog that learned to speak only basic english...the fact that any of this is even possible is stunning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axg11</author><text>Could not agree more. We keep moving the goalposts for what constitutes intelligence, perhaps that is a net good, but I can&amp;#x27;t help feeling that we are taking incredible progress for granted. Both DALL-E and large language models (GPT-3, PaLM) demonstrate abilities that the majority of people doubted would ever be possible by a computer 20 years ago.&lt;p&gt;Imagine telling someone in 2002 that they can write a description of a dog on their computer, send it over the internet and a server on the other side will return a novel, generated, near-perfect picture of that dog! Oh - sorry, one caveat, the legs might be a little long!</text></comment>
<story><title>Playing with DALL-E 2</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r99tazGiLgzqFX7ka/playing-with-dall-e-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikelemmon</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s sarcasm, but the author seems to downplay these images. Are we really that jaded? This seems like criticizing a dog that learned to speak only basic english...the fact that any of this is even possible is stunning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Just about all the AI achievements are really impressive in the talking dog quality as you say.&lt;p&gt;The thing is that current has been producing more and more things that stay at the talking dog level (as well as other definitely useful things, yes). So the impressiveness and the limits are both worth mentioning.</text></comment>