Thank you Russel. That was a better answer than I have been able to find in any of the documentation. Is a copy left activist the opposite of a copyright lawyer?
Cody Smith On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 7:14 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:19:16AM -0600, cody dooderson wrote: > > That soundscape thing is nice. What a nifty idea. > > Speaking of AI, has anyone used GitHub copilot. It is AI for writing > code. It > > is spectacular. It writes decent code with very few prompts. It makes a > few > > mistakes but don't we all. > > I haven't been able to find a good writeup on how it works. Does anyone > know > > about it? Does it run locally? Could it create itself? > > Yes - I've been reading some of the articles, and listened to some > talks presented at NVidia's GTC conference. > > Copilot is a model based on GPT3, which is a general language parsing > and generation model. Basically, it takes input tokens, and outputs > most like response tokens based on that. It is a recurrent neural > network with a few 100 billion parameters (ie essentially synaptic > weights), with a complexity approaching that of a human brain (human > brains contain around a trillion synapses). GPT3 has been pretrained > on corpora sourced from the world-wide web, and interestingly it has > been found that the pre-trained model can be fairly rapidly retrained > on different tasks. In the case of Copilot, it has been trained on the > contents of Github, which is the world largest open source > repository. This has caused concern amongst copy left activists, as > quite a bit of GPL licensed code was involved, and this is arguably > not a case of "fair use" of copyright code. > > No - it does not run locally. It requires a massive, massive cluster > of NVidia GPUs to run training, and the inference part requires a not > quite so massive cluster of GPUs as well. Hence the need for it to run > in the cloud. > > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 1:24 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Change the sentence to be “Put Ukrainian soldier nearby a civilian on > > street in Bucha, shooting her.” > > > > > > > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gillian > Densmore > > Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 11:09 AM > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] This is scary, and yet very cool...Ai neural > networks > > making pictures, look really good > > > > > > > > Oh shit! that's trippy! I though I stumbled over an equally trippy > screen > > saver, and (separately) some kind white noise, or background sounds > > generator that used Ai somehow. > > > > Found one of the screen savers that uses Ai. It's free if you let > them use > > your GPU and CPU otherwise it's just a few bucks. > https://electricsheep.org > > / > > > > I'm not finding the specific whitenoise maker I tried to help with > > insomnia. Just for that side, worked out great. I don't think it > was as > > sophisticated as dall-e2. IIRC I had to give it somehelp with some > stuff. > > Maybe so it knows where to start? I didn't think about it till now. > Because > > if I like backgrounds that are warm and wholesome, it'd need to know > what > > mix together and kinds of tones or something? I have no idea. I'm > just > > guessing > > > > electricsheep on the other hand can make some stuff that on the > entire > > spectrum from trippy, to that's just cheating: a beautiful scenic > town kind > > of things. > > > > > > > > Do you know if they needed to train the Neural Networks so it knows > whats > > what? like popart from Lichtenstein and andy worhole or what we > might find > > at the indian market. Such that later on you say ahah I want a cow > print > > slowcooker picture Dall-e can do that? > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 11:04 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > Speaking of which, https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ > > > > > > > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gillian > Densmore > > Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 10:01 PM > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > > [email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] This is scary, and yet very cool...Ai neural > > networks making pictures, look really good > > > > > > > > 👍 > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 8:37 PM Marcus Daniels < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I am not a photographer but I have been startled by how > recent > > iPhone photos sometimes look better than what I saw when I > took it. > > This article explains.. > > > > > > > > https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ > > have-iphone-cameras-become-too-smart > > > > > > > > Filmy-ness sounds like crude interpolation more than > structure > > being imposed. > > > > > > > > Suppose I had 1000 pictures of my dog in many lighting > conditions > > and from different angles. Using photogrammetry > reconstruction > > techniques these could be used to prepare a 3-d textured > model of > > her. My iPhone could determine that the 1001st photo also > > included her. It could then reference this model to enhance > her > > image in the new context. Maybe inferring the light > sources and > > ray tracing her at the required orientation and scale, but > at a > > resolution far beyond what was in the photo. That would be > more > > art than a photo, but who cares about the truth anymore? > Photos > > are to be staged! > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 4, 2022, at 5:04 PM, Gillian Densmore < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is that also why some of the older software for upscaling > > tricks the new pictures have a kind of saturated or > filmy > > thing over them? or is that just from the particular > Neural > > Networks or Ai models used? Still very impressive. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:40 PM Gillian Densmore < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! coool!! thanks! > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:30 PM Marcus Daniels < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > The idea [1] is that they learn the distribution > > function of different kinds of distortion using a > > machine learning algorithm. > > > > Then that algorithm can invert that distribution > > function. Kind of like a lens can correct for > > nearsightedness. > > > > > > > > [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10833.pdf > > > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of > > Gillian Densmore > > Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 3:25 PM > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee > Group > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: [FRIAM] This is scary, and yet very > cool...Ai > > neural networks making pictures, look really good > > > > > > > > https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN > > > > > > > > Stumbled across this looking for a way to gently > adjust > > some old pictures of mine without watermarks > > (gigapixel), photoshop wasn't cutting it > because not > > enough pixels or data in the originals. > > > > > > > > I am beyond fascinated how do they do it? just > guess > > based on colors and add more pixels with that > color? > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. > --- -. > > .--- ..- --. .- - . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 > bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/ > > friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/ > > friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 > http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. > .--- ..- > > --. .- - . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/ > > friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/ > > friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- > ..- --. > > .- - . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/ > > friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- > --. .- > > - . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. > .- - . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - > . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: > > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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