The joke is a cross between a famous anecdote about Diogenes and the inner workings of vision-capable AI models.
Diogenes really liked to disrespect his social superiors, so when, in a lecture, Plato defined human beings as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes plucked a chicken and presented it to him saying “Behold - Plato’s human being” (or something along those lines, the quote is slightly different in every source).
In order to “see” things from images and video, a garden variety LLM needs to integrate with another model that analyzes the picture it is given and gives a text description (source: HuggingFace). What I’m getting at is that, based on that idea of stripping things of context, ChatGPT could probably confidently tell you something in the vein of Plato taking the piss due to its inherently limited ability to see.
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everything hits the tokenizer at some point 💀 which is where all data meets their maker.
char[]? (characters stringed together in a sequence)everything loses detail after the tokenizer.
Behold, a man! - ChatGPT
Isn’t that all digital photography anyway?
ye that was kinda the point i was trynna to make
what up with that chatbot?
The joke is a cross between a famous anecdote about Diogenes and the inner workings of vision-capable AI models.
Diogenes really liked to disrespect his social superiors, so when, in a lecture, Plato defined human beings as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes plucked a chicken and presented it to him saying “Behold - Plato’s human being” (or something along those lines, the quote is slightly different in every source).
In order to “see” things from images and video, a garden variety LLM needs to integrate with another model that analyzes the picture it is given and gives a text description (source: HuggingFace). What I’m getting at is that, based on that idea of stripping things of context, ChatGPT could probably confidently tell you something in the vein of Plato taking the piss due to its inherently limited ability to see.
oh wowie no way someone did the reading on HUGGINGFACE??? wowie, never expected that link to make it to 196…
anyway: good joke, i get it now, thank u.