<story><title>I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it</title><url>https://tristrumtuttle.medium.com/the-day-i-became-friends-with-a-robot-86433f707fad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s not get carried away. it is still original&lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; to the extent that it is a different combination of &lt;i&gt;existing&lt;/i&gt; prose - just unrecognizable due to the vastness of online content.&lt;p&gt;It is both beautiful and scary that it is indeed indistinguishable from original creative content.</text></item><item><author>qwertox</author><text>I think we&amp;#x27;re currently witnessing something truly unique with the rise of AI, something which is as special as life being born on earth.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;ll still be the discussion around conscience, but having a tool which can emulate human thinking is really wild.&lt;p&gt;The next 5 years will be really interesting. Also to see how this will be absorbed by society.</text></item><item><author>goodside</author><text>The following is an un-curated text-davinci-002 generation, completing the text:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Write an insightful reply to this Hacker News comment on a link to an article titled &amp;quot;I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it&amp;quot;. The comment is left by user &amp;quot;turtledove&amp;quot;, and reads, &amp;quot;How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every &amp;#x27;I made AI do...&amp;#x27; story seems to necessarily omit the &amp;#x27;and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example.&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The completion:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many attempts were made, but I imagine it wasn&amp;#x27;t too many. As for human curation, I&amp;#x27;m sure there was some involved in choosing which story and illustration to publish. But overall, I think the point of the article is that the AI was able to produce something fairly coherent on its own.</text></item><item><author>turtledove</author><text>How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every &amp;quot;I made AI do...&amp;quot; story seems to necessarily omit the &amp;quot;and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deltaonefour</author><text>No you&amp;#x27;re wrong. It&amp;#x27;s literally creativity. Machine learning models literally work because they fill in gaps where the data doesn&amp;#x27;t exist.&lt;p&gt;Any content generated by ML is very unlikely to be anything else other then original.&lt;p&gt;Imagine linear regression. Then pick a random point on that line. How likely is it that that point on that trend line coincides with an actual data point? Very unlikely.&lt;p&gt;ML is simply a multidimensional version of this. Some 1000 dimensional surface and the result you see is simply a point on that surface. The likelihood of that point on the surface to coincide with an actual data point is astronomically low.&lt;p&gt;Nobody is being carried away here. What you are seeing is raw creativity by an AI. It is a highly simplified version of human creativity, but the deep fundamentals are identical.&lt;p&gt;In fact all intelligence is simply a huge thousands or more dimensional surface. A giant curve fitting methodology. The only gap between ML and human intelligence as of now is the amount of neurons, the training algorithm and the actual template for the equation describing the model. But in essence we have the fundamentals down at a high level.</text></comment>
<story><title>I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it</title><url>https://tristrumtuttle.medium.com/the-day-i-became-friends-with-a-robot-86433f707fad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s not get carried away. it is still original&lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; to the extent that it is a different combination of &lt;i&gt;existing&lt;/i&gt; prose - just unrecognizable due to the vastness of online content.&lt;p&gt;It is both beautiful and scary that it is indeed indistinguishable from original creative content.</text></item><item><author>qwertox</author><text>I think we&amp;#x27;re currently witnessing something truly unique with the rise of AI, something which is as special as life being born on earth.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;ll still be the discussion around conscience, but having a tool which can emulate human thinking is really wild.&lt;p&gt;The next 5 years will be really interesting. Also to see how this will be absorbed by society.</text></item><item><author>goodside</author><text>The following is an un-curated text-davinci-002 generation, completing the text:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Write an insightful reply to this Hacker News comment on a link to an article titled &amp;quot;I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it&amp;quot;. The comment is left by user &amp;quot;turtledove&amp;quot;, and reads, &amp;quot;How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every &amp;#x27;I made AI do...&amp;#x27; story seems to necessarily omit the &amp;#x27;and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example.&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The completion:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many attempts were made, but I imagine it wasn&amp;#x27;t too many. As for human curation, I&amp;#x27;m sure there was some involved in choosing which story and illustration to publish. But overall, I think the point of the article is that the AI was able to produce something fairly coherent on its own.</text></item><item><author>turtledove</author><text>How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every &amp;quot;I made AI do...&amp;quot; story seems to necessarily omit the &amp;quot;and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>&amp;gt; it is a different combination of existing prose&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t true. It&amp;#x27;s been explained numerous times on HN how mistaken this view is.&lt;p&gt;Language models do not work like this. They &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; copy content but usually that&amp;#x27;s for something like the GPL language text.&lt;p&gt;Generally they work on a character by character basis predicting what is the most likely character to appear next.&lt;p&gt;This very rarely results in copying text, and almost never rare text.</text></comment>