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dont they usually prescribe lithium salts for bipolar disorders? or is that like 1960s medicine knowledge

-carrie

ahhh I can feel this thread is going to be a gold mine…

Where do you get your GIFs?

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Has everyone already heard of the brilliant machine translation for the saying "Out of sight, out of mind"?

"Invisible, idiot."

I had what I thought was a really great concept for a book or game, but I'm not a talented artist.

I think it was 21 or 22 I started using AI to try and make the images I could see in my head.

Must have run over 1000 iterations with various prompts, negative prompts, and many hours of research. I got exactly zero usable artwork.

It was equally unhelpful with descriptive filler text even when presented info on a silver platter. AI = Garbage Out.

Also the idea that gen AI will just get better and it's now only a question of years that "they" will be "as good or better than a human expert" is so naive and misses out a very important detail.

Today's gen AI/LLMs already has all the training data from humanity even that data that they have no permission for. To make AI better you would need 3 or 4 times the amount of people on earth. There is no physical principal that dictates that AI will become "better over time".

circa 2000 I came to the conclusion to consider translated textbooks only when the translators name was mentioned on the title.

This came after the worst translation ever, that translated SQL commands in sample code

And back then it was all human, went downhill recently (though machines are useful for small snippets)

Never regretted this decision.

That is absolutely correct if one refers to the essence of art.

Yet I would distinguish between art itself and the functional quality of artistic work: i.e. creative work in the service of capitalism. I believe this is where the displacement has already happened and continues to unfold.

Unfortunately, this kind of creative work puts food on the table for many artists and often enables the creation of art.

I think the biggest difference is in the rate of change. At every step people are making eternal pronouncements of what LLMs can and can't do when it's a moving target.

I agree with you 100% about translation, it's an art. It's a great example. You can't simply replace one human translator with another, let alone a machine.

The difference is I would add "yet". Looking at the arc of LLMs over less than ten years, it doesn't seem an impossibility to me, it seems a likelihood.

But I'm sure we'll be seeing books written by LLMs translated to all the different languages - by LLMs.

Oh, and then you won't even have to read the LLM translated LLM written book, because you can just ask an LLM to summarize it for you.