Submitted by Background-Loan681 t3_y6eth3 in singularity
I did a simple test, I made a fresh new character in character.ai, then I asked it to imagine stuff.
Now, I know, it's a little bit of a stretch to compare this with human imagination, but it's... I dunno, it's quite interesting how it works. Here's an excerpt of our conversation:
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Then I plugged it into Text to Image (I use NAI Diffusion for this)
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Now... Just seeing the character talk about imagination and actually seeing the byproduct of that imagination with my eyes is a whole different thing entirely. I realized that the NAI Diffusion mistook the prompt to, thinking that the 'mountain path' is made out of river, instead of leading to a river.
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So I asked the bot again, this time asking more about 'imagine a place that would make you feel safe', then I specifically asked them for a prompt. This is what I got:
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See, the thing about all these artworks are... There is literally no human influence that came into it. You are looking at a byproduct of something that isn't thought up by literally anyone. Sure, NovelAI uses training data that was created from all of mankind's history. But by that logic, same goes for every artwork out there.
What makes these piece special is that... Again, there is no human that went into making these. It's hard to wrap my head around it. Where is the human here? I imagined nothing, there was nothing in my mind, I simply asked for a bot to imagine something, and here we are.
Please note that it's different from just typing 'beautiful girl' in a text to NAI diffusion model, 9/10 it will generate a girl with black hair and blue eyes. This, however, is a legit full blown text prompt created by a chatbot AI.
And then there's this:
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I dunno, this might be just me overthinking about stuff and all this is randomly generated stuff.
But at any case, I would love to hear your thought about this.
powerscunner t1_ispkiny wrote
Yes, that is a form of imagination. Yes, AI is actually intelligent.
Something is always magic until it becomes a tool, then suddenly everyone decides it's not magic anymore. Whenever AI does something that only humans or animals could do before, suddenly people don't consider it AI anymore. This phenomenon is called the AI effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect