Post #1919659
2026-05-03 15:30 UTC
Human creativity was thought to be something special, bordering on spiritual. The ability to imagine something new and craft a great work of art was something unique to the human mind, beyond what any mechanism or mere animal could achieve.
And maybe if we had the sci-fi version of AI, it wouldn't be so bad.
But, no. Turns out that a simple regression solver can make passable art, music and writing - and it does so without any of the magic of sentience required. Just a lot of very basic math.
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2026-05-03 15:36
Something once thought to be so special to the worth of humans that it could inspire true awe is now exposed as largely approximately by a mathematical function. And one simple enough in concept that there can be no magical intellect lucking in the cervices. Ok, it's not as good as a really practiced human artist - but it's close enough for commercial work. If simple dumb slop-factory can produce an output that is hard to distinguish from that of a human, is the human really more intelligent?