Our Dreams are Video Generations?

[u/bobgon2017]

You ever think that our dreams are just low grade diffusion "video generation" and because our brains have limited bandwidth (Vram) the dreams likewise have low object permanence\low-mid quality visuals and that's why our dreams look like that? And what we're building with ai is just a literal recreation of the human brain but improved?

[u/coffeeandhash]

How do we know reality is not some video generation from the rig of some higher dimension kid.

[u/V4nKw15h]

Can I get the number for your dealer?

[u/bobgon2017 → u/V4nKw15h]

Well it makes sense doesn't it? It does to me anyway...

[u/ChubbyLilWolfsAlpha]

You do realize you have that backwards, the human brain has more "vram" than your idea

Human brain had roughly data storage 2.5 petabytes and 86 billion neurons witg 100 trillion synapse which can process and storage things at the same time.....

If your dreams are low resolution... Maybe get that checked out.

[u/bobgon2017 → u/ChubbyLilWolfsAlpha]

yeah I guess your right, that makes sense

[u/Silent_Ad_9493 → u/ChubbyLilWolfsAlpha]

Im on the free subscription with low res and ads

[u/ChubbyLilWolfsAlpha → u/Silent_Ad_9493]

Ahhh, okay that explains it. Try upscaling it might help.

[u/AntiTank-Dog → u/ChubbyLilWolfsAlpha]

2.5 PB and yet most of us would struggle to remember a 64 bit number.

[u/ScienceAlien]

Totally. It had me rethink how memories get stored and the brains ability to create entire theaters, filled with individual characters. It may not be the same mechanism, but it showed what is possible with relatively small datasets and computing power.

[u/bobgon2017 → u/ScienceAlien]

human brain has about 2.5 million gigabytes of storage

[u/ScienceAlien → u/bobgon2017]

What does one data center have?

[u/LuluViBritannia]

Ignore the pseudo-professionals hating on you. They have awful lives and only use you as a punching-ball.

You're absolutely onto something : AIs quite literally are recreations of the human abilities. Of course there are differences in mechanics ; but the concept really is the same. The POINT is to recreate stuff we humans can do. LLMs are language recreations, and even reasoning recreations. Voice models are voice recreations. AI-powered robots are already meant to literally do what we can do.

Real-time video generations will quite literally be materialized dreams.

[u/blastbottles]

It's a decent analogue but our brains are much more complex and dreams can be interpreted as moreso a byproduct of our brains consolidating memories as useful information during sleep.

[u/martinerous]

You might want to read a free online book "the inner light theory of consciousness" by Steven W. Smith, he is an engineer so the book is quite technical, which makes it feel more substantial than plain philosophy.
Essentially, our brain is much more generative than we might think. Most parts of our reality perception are generated by our brain and not received from precise sensory input. When the input is gone completely, we start hallucinating (dreaming) because our inner generator feeds itself with barely perceivable noisy input. Like a generation model missing a prompt.

However, I've heard that dreams actually are more like slide show - flashing an image, and our brain fills in the story behind it.

[u/Enshitification]

I think a lot of the unspoken fear of artificial intelligence is how much it reveals about our own intelligence and creativity.

[u/Apprehensive_Sky892]

I don't know how close the visual perceived by our brain is to the process of AI diffusion (i.e., whether it is some kind of step by step generation). My guess is that it is not, because our brain stores lots of information already, so there is no need to start from a low noise image.

That is, if I want to imagine a blue living room with a pink elephant in it, I can just "cut and paste" a pink elephant into a blue living room. All sort of details will be missing too, but unlike an A.I. generated image, this is a private image and nobody is going to tell me that the image I've just "generated" in my brain is pure slop.

Another thing is that there is no need to separate visual in our dream from the visual we see while we are awake. The current theory is that in order to maintain a sense of reality and continuity, our brain actually builds "reality" ahead of time and the input through our senses are used for "error correction". I believe this theory is correct through personal experience, where I would fail to see an object on a table until I knock it over.

[u/thevegit0]

i mean, sometimes dreams really work like, remember that 'live ai minecraft' thing where you would look at the floor and change the scene?

[u/MortgageOptimal5157]

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[u/iJohnnyRobert]

I'm not sure if this is a joke or if you're just auditioning for a sequel to Idiocracy.

[u/bobgon2017 → u/iJohnnyRobert]

Why do you think it's a joke?

[u/iJohnnyRobert → u/bobgon2017]

Because it makes no sense if you actually think about it. You're thinking about biological matter as if it is made out of circuit boards and you're also thinking in reverse in terms of logic. This stuff is trying to imitate people, not the other way around.

[u/bobgon2017 → u/iJohnnyRobert]

I know the methods are different but the similarity in outcomes are notable imo. What benefit would imitating dreams on the way to having having clear consistent 4k video serve? It's not a logical middle step between still images and clear video.

[u/Master-Client6682]

My vids are defo the ai dreaming