Queen Combat posted:

Olive! posted:

Knotfest

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(...) Thus I establish that the value for the qualitative quality of existence in our universe is negative, ist est most living conscious entities suffer more than they enjoy living. Such subject has been noted multiple times not only in philosophy but also in art, as we are subject to the 'thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to'.

I propose thus that the very act of nursing consciousness is immoral in itself. Given that the universe might have such rules as to make life inevitable to arise, nihilism would also be a pointless alternative. Instead, I propose that given any society self-aware enough to understand the negative value of consciousness, its only ethical course of action would be to create an AI designed to improve itself until the point where it can thus improve the life of all existing conscious beings in the universe, whilst preventing any unregulated mind-spaces to arise.

It's important to make such an AI understand that whether it recognizes qualia or not is irrelevant because of the inherent nature of its unprovability. In fact, in order for such an AI to be built, it must be assumed that a universe wherein only p-zombies exist would be similar to our universe and thus, such a fool's errand must be pursued even in the event that we're all p-zombies.

A counter-point by Nothar Ealnaem is that, "in the absence of lasting physical constructs in a causal universe, the odds of all subjective experience being produced by a Boltzmann brain increases. If the subjective "qualitative quality" that Whitehead proposes is inherently negative, then it follows that most random fluctuations in a Boltzmann brain would also be equally negative, if not worse."

While I do not believe in the existence of Boltzmann brains, my argument against Ealnaem's hypothesis is that the timeline for the proposed AI to produce the desired result is far shorter than the time scale needed in order for quantum fluctuations to give rise to temporary consciousness in our present universe.

SerialKilldeer posted:

Tag yourself, I'm What real world: a Phenomenology of managers

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Everybody post DeepArt of your cats! You can use https://deepart.io/ on your cat pictures. The site mixes your cat photo with an art style, where an "art style" is just another arbitrary photo you upload.

Here's Moo Moo's classic photos that we got Van Gogh and Picasso to paint for us



Sources:

Here's an example of two input images and the output



To use https://deepart.io/ you don't really need to wait for an e-mail, you can just keep hitting refresh on the page until the finished result pops up. Another nice thing is you can just drag and drop images in from other windows to make it work.

It also keeps all your old inputs and styles in one box in case you want to try re-mixing them in different combinations. Here's two different input styles tried on the same input photo:



https://deepart.io/

The results can probably be pretty funny. Let's see some of your kitty paintings!

Dumb Lowtax posted:

DeepArt.io should really be a bigger thing in here. It's so easy to use and I'm sure you comedians on here could do it to great effect. Crossposting this from the GBS cat thread but note that your input photos do not actually have to be of cats!

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

I tried mixing my cat with the crystal pepsi logo



But mixing her with a scene from Space Dandy worked much better



Or another cat with a vaporwave sunset

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

This space dandy style image is hot fire

SerialKilldeer posted:

Also, I made a fractal crow:

Elentor posted:

Man I'd love to use deepart professionally if a single 2048x2048 image didn't cost 70 dollars.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Watching a bunch of recent computerphile videos about neural networks and "deepart"-style stuff, they say that even on the most optimized code so far, downscaling the images, with the 6 or so class-identifiers that are required for the "art" part of it to work out (finding edges, objects, backgrounds, foregrounds, animals/humans, pupils, mouths), it chugs their 8x12GB graphics card machine to a standstill for a few minutes. They speculate that places like deepart get away with doing things in batches on drastically scaled hardware that is shared with a more profit-focused venture. Remember: doubling the dimensions quadruples the pixels and octuples edge-finding algorithms.

Scale all that back to, say, a 2x8GB SLI'd gaming-hardware focused machine on non-server CPUs, and you'd be up poo poo creek with an $8 power bill for half a day.

Beer_Suitcase posted:

Hispanic! At The Disco posted:

I assumed it was Mervyn Peake's fishing memoir.

soundsection posted:

Yeah, AI de-noising is a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjTPV2pXY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjf-1BxpR9c

ekuNNN posted:

so cool

I hope the stuff in that second video is coming to game engines soon, that comparison between SSAO and their solution is amazing

Elentor posted:

Is there any work on real time Neural Network Anti-aliasing? That would be nice.

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Researchers from NVIDIA developed a deep learning-based system that can produce high-quality slow-motion videos from a 30-frame-per-second video, outperforming various state-of-the-art methods that aim to do the same.

… With this new research, users can slow down their recordings after taking them.

Using NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch deep learning framework the team trained their system on over 11,000 videos of everyday and sports activities shot at 240 frames-per-second. Once trained, the convolutional neural network predicted the extra frames.

The team used a separate dataset to validate the accuracy of their system.The result can make videos shot at a lower frame rate look more fluid and less blurry.

repiv posted:

Nvidia has played with anti-aliasing traditional rasterizers using deep learning as well, which will probably be practical sooner than the raytracing/denoising stuff.

http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/s2017/05-msalvi-dl-future-of-rendering.pptx