neural networks

The universe is noisy and confusing, complex enough to make predictions difficult. Human intelligence and intuition facilitate a basic understanding of some of the activities of the world around us. And they do so well enough to make basic sense of events at the macro space and time scales of the limited perspectives of individuals and small groups.  The natural philosophers of human prehistory and early history were mostly limited to common sense rationalization and guess and check. The limitations of these methods,…

On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket.The outwardly simple app, which generates nine images in response to any typed text prompt, was launched nearly a year ago by an independent developer. But after some recent improvements and a few viral tweets, its ability to crudely sketch all manner of surreal, hilarious, and even nightmarish visions suddenly became meme magic. Behold its renditions of…