<story><title>EleutherAI One Year Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>The fact that tacking on the phrase “unreal engine” to an image generation prompt makes the image way better is both hilarious and kind of terrifying to me.&lt;p&gt;In the first generation of AI there was this idea that we could use AI to understand human consciousness; just make a conscious machine and then analyze it, pause it, rewind it, etc. The more we learn about AI, the more I think we’ll lose any chance to understand them long before they pass a complexity threshold where we start debating if they are conscious.&lt;p&gt;Communing with AI is starting to look more like some kind of Eldritch incantation…</text></comment>
<story><title>EleutherAI One Year Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>Neat. The name &amp;quot;EleutherAI&amp;quot; comes from the Greek word &amp;quot;ελευθερία&amp;quot;, which means &amp;quot;freedom&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy the interplay of &amp;quot;ία&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I knew nothing about this project, but seeing their interesting name has made me open that link above in a new tab to read later.</text></comment>