Another convincing rebuttal: mobile.twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/stat…... It'd be cool if this was true, but it looks like it mostly isn't.

I found this analysis interesting twitter.com/Plinz/status/15317113455858…...

No, it does not. It also doesn't always generate the same category of image. See twitter.com/realmeatyhuman/status/15317….... As much as people would like there to be, there really does not seem to be anything here. The original author doesn't think so, either (would need to refind the tweet).

It’s the other way around. ML is cool precisely because it’s a guitar for the mind, not a mind itself. soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-genera…... I made that by using ML as a guitar. I chose instruments and style the way a guitarist’s fingers chooses frets. And saying “give me this style with these instruments” is far easier than recording it yourself. For what it’s worth, I agree with you about AGI. twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1446076902…... But for me, that means it’s far more interesting than AGI. Everyone has their eye on AGI, and no one seems to be taking ML at face value. That means the first companies to do it will stand to make a fortune.

Yes. Indeed, it seems to interpret a lot of nonsense tokens it doesn't recognize as though it's probably the Latin / scientific term for some sort of species it doesn't remember very well (keeping in mind that all these systems are attempting to compress a large corpus into a relatively small space). I think twitter.com/realmeatyhuman/status/15317…... is best illustrative of this phenomenon. So, it's certainly an "interesting" result in the sense that it shows how these kinds of systems work, but it's definitely not a language.

The tweet is in response to a preliminary paper [1] [2] studying text found in images generated by, e.g., "Two whales talking about food, with subtitles." DALL-E doesn't generate meaningful text strings in the images, but if you feed the gibberish text it produces -- "Wa ch zod ahaakes rea." back into the system as a prompt, you would get semantically meaningful images, e.g., pictures of fish and shrimp. [1] giannisdaras.github.io/publications/Dis…... [2] twitter.com/giannis_daras/status/153169…

Not really, he afterwards says that he was more trying to inject some humility. He really doesn't think this is measuring anything of interest. For the birds result in particular, see twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1531736….

Apoploe vesrreaitais was already explained. Turns out - lot of birds fell into Apodidae and Ploceidae categories of birds - twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1531736… IMO these words were part of some training images (e.g. taken from nature atlases) and DALL-E learned to associate them with birds, although in gibberish form.

When questioned about the change of tone, he answers "Well... a little bit of twitter hype makes a thread go a long way". twitter.com/emnode/status/1531852124501…