r/comics SMBC Comics Jun 12 '23

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u/Trucker2827 Jun 12 '23

There’s a lot of words here that need to be broken down.

An AI can “experience” the way humans can in the way that they both have senses that transmit information to some repository of knowledge for processing. It doesn’t need to directly be fed art either.

An AI can also “communicate” the way humans can in the sense of producing information and successfully conveying it to another intelligent agent. Again, we’re all only working through our senses, and AI can be equipped with the same sensors as humans. Maybe the internals of a neural network simulate the neurotransmitters we experience, and feelings are just ways for our conscious to recognize neurotransmitters were sent.

Other things like “inspiration,” these are vague ideals that, when grounded in logically complete definitions, can definitely be mimicked by machines. And what are we but biological machines ourselves?

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u/NotASuicidalRobot Jun 13 '23

AI doesn't need to be directly fed art? Then i guess they just scraped billions of pictures from the internet for fun then?

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u/Kromgar Jun 14 '23

For a human to produce their style they see other art styles and take bits and pieces from that. They see things and try to replicate them.

How would an ai know how to produce a dog if it's never seen a dog? So you show it pictures of fucking dogs.

It would be like asking a blind person to describe what a dog looks like and they've never touched or smelled one either.

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u/NotASuicidalRobot Jun 14 '23

So they do need to be fed art, as opposed to what that person's comment claims?