Yeah - same things I noticed with people enthusiastically using genAI for old photo coloring. Initially it looks awesome, until you realize it can even alter the human face in such a way, that it no longer looks like that person.
My father was really happy with some old photos colored, until I pointed out he does not look like him. Strangely enough he wasnt bothered...
> When people who can’t think logically design large systems, those systems become incomprehensible. And we start thinking of them as biological systems. And since biological systems are too complex to understand, it seems perfectly natural that computer programs should be too complex to understand.
For some time I've been drawing parallels between ML/AI and how biology "solves problems" - evolution. And I also am bit disappointed by the fact the future might lead us in a different direction than mathematical elegance of solving problems.
I really loved that quote in the article. It’s such an excellent description of the “computer voodoo“ users come up with to explain what is, to them, unexplainable about computers.
You’re right though, we’re basically there with AI/ML aren’t we. I mean I guess we know why it does the things it does in general, but the specific “reasoning“ on any single question is pretty much unanswerable.
Evolution: optimization done by selection, result is the DNA, that does amazing (we can't match that with traditional programming) things but it's bloody hard to decipher.
Neural network: created via training, does amazing things but (this is the area my knowledge is too small) it's bloody hard to decipher why is it doing the thing it does.
"Traditional" programming: you can (as in article) explain it down to the single most basic unit.
> feels as if you're watching the making-of documentary rather than the film itself.
Isn't that because of many picture enhancers that come with modern tvs? I think major offender is the interpolation to go from cinematic 24 frames to higher frame rate. I believe it's commonly called soap opera effect...
Yep, but there's no reason to use it. Just go to the settings menu and turn it off. While you're in there, set the color settings to "movie" mode too so the colors are more faithful.
Modern TVs look absolutely horrible out-of-the-box, because they're made to look cool in showrooms, but if you fix those settings they look great. Even better, turn on a YouTube video that shows how to adjust the black and white levels and tune them.
My father was really happy with some old photos colored, until I pointed out he does not look like him. Strangely enough he wasnt bothered...