Post ATaIbSt8OUjTvZ0YF6 by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
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 (DIR) Post #ATaGseV4H6nyxIopMm by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:32:26Z
       
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       For me, #AIart was almost like discovering a new mode of thinking. I can brainstorm visually now in a way I never could before. So what I really want to know about language models is: will they get to that point? Not quite there yet, I think, though the last six months have been suggestive.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaIC4OYK31iiuau36 by nichg@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:47:08Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood A got a bit of this with the old RoboRosewater stuff and using it (and GPT-2 and GPT-3) to brainstorm game mechanics. I feel like its more of a struggle with ChatGPT to get that benefit though - it's skewed too much towards 'answer its hard to find fault with', where for brainstorming text I really do want damaged but risky things I can then repair.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaIPWByHiVkhP7dE8 by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:49:34Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood how do you mean by brainstorm visually? As in, brainstorm how words might guide reconstruct an image?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaIbSt8OUjTvZ0YF6 by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:51:44Z
       
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       @chengyjonathan Like, the visual equivalent of brainstorming by writing on a page: take a visual idea and refine it iteratively, or transpose it into a different style — also borrow ideas from other ppl and incorporate them. I could never do any of that with images.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaIxM4OQR2n9RiCgq by StuartGray@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-03-13T20:55:41Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood Interesting observation.I haven't used AI art extensively, and never for brainstorming because so far I've not had a pressing need.However, I have used ChatGPT to brainstorm some ideas for a plot line I've been tinkering although it's a bit hit & miss, I found it very useful overall.Likely not as good as an engaged & knowledgable person, but *much* better than a well-meaning but ultimately clueless friend, and gave me some new ideas I hadn't considered.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaIyxbSMZJdqewVTE by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:56:00Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood ahhh, I’m finding that the text equivalent of that kind of brainstorming has been triplet building. Where I have an idea of a document, refining that idea by deciding what entities and relations I care about, transposing those entities and relations for different use cases/ styles.Granted, this has implicitly been the case for me since Bamman brought triplets into modeling fiction.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaJ9rhAfVYQi8ocEK by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-13T20:57:57Z
       
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       @chengyjonathan That's very interesting. In another window right now I'm studying the Turbo API for an experiment I want to run. Maybe I'll play around with triplets.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATagE8Y4FTat5HYyzg by Adverb@sigmoid.social
       2023-03-14T01:16:24Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood @chengyjonathan I had an honest-to-god spatial disability as a youth, so I definitely relate to feeling like it sort-of opens up thinking/ideating in ways as fundamental as a pad of paper.