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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Progress is definitely happening. One area that I am somewhat knowledgeable about is image/video upscaling. Neural net enhanced upscaling has been around for a while, but we are increasingly getting to a point where SD (DVD source, older videos from the 90s/2000s) to HD upscaling is working almost like in the science fiction movies. There are still issues of course, but the results are drastically better than simply scaling the source media by x2.

The framing of LLMs as some sort of techno-utopian "AI oracle" is indeed a damning reflection of our society. Although I think this topic is outside the scope of current "AI" discussions and would likely involve a fundamental reform of our broader social, economic, political and educational models.

Even the term "AI" (and its framing) is extremely misleading. There is no "artificial intelligence" involved in a LLM.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 8 points 4 months ago

Sure but that's specialist models.

Generalist models are stagnant and show little potential for progress.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

One area that I am somewhat knowledgeable about is image/video upscaling

Oh I believe you. I've seen it done on a home machine on old time-lapse photos. It might have been janky for individual photos, but as frames in a movie it easily elevated the footage.

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