On the Making of Nonexistent Cats

Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 05:02:54 AM

Quote from: nullius on Today at 04:05:41 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 01:19:57 AM

but surely life happens

Indeed. Life goes on. 😼

This nonexistent cat admired strength and despised weakness:

Free images of Lauda!
Protip: If nullius drops a Youtube link, it is probably not stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKbRCUyop8

Not sure about GAN... I did watch almost half of the video without conceding whether I understood any of what I saw/heard.

A simple, very non-rigorous explanation:

You know the general class of nifty AI technologies that make reverse image search, facial recognition, the visual cortex for self-driving cars, etc., etc.?

Well, it turns out that if you put two different AI bots in a feedback loop, you can make one bot train the other to produce the images that the first bot has already been trained to recognize.

So: Train one bot to recognize cat photos. Make the other bot start producing more or less random photos; and force it to learn to fool the cat photo recognizer into believing that a nonexistent cat is a real cat.

When you run this little bot vs. bot game on a big pile of expensive GPUs for a week or two, the cat-recognizer bot teaches the nonexistent-cat bot to produce fake cat photos that can fool humans. 😸

It is such a powerful technology, it can even produce KYC dox photos of nullius! Shocked

Quote from: Toxic2040 on Today at 05:47:02 AM

realised or generative cats only require a warm place to nap... shrug_smile.py

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard P. Feynman

Good one. Here are some images that I posted on Lauda’s goodbye thread; curious ~~cats~~ humans should right-click and view the image on the left to view it full size, or even click through to the paper hereby linked on Arxiv:

Quote from: nullius on October 30, 2020, 01:01:17 AM

Kitty loved science!
—And technology indistinguishable from magic!

* nullius loves the “generative model” that “produces cat-shaped objects more often”. 😼

Science and maths and technical intrigues are posted to the Wall Observer in memory of Kitty.

Quote from: Toxic2040 on Today at 05:47:02 AM

Nulli...on a more personal note I must admit some fascination with some of your posts...but by the gods man..bloviate much?

I am curious^* about which subjects fascinate you. Though I will understand if you don’t want to be too specific. Perhaps I may be too toxic. (* Sufficiently curious that I will spare you the “taken under advisement” macro about my alleged “bloviating”. ;-)