AI-Generated Bible Art
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Take my mon—er upvote.
Rewrite the book of Genesis in the style of a limerick
GPT-3:
There was a man named Adam
Who was the first of all men
He lived in a garden
With his wife, Eve
And they ate an apple
And then they had to leave* I'm assuming it is just the oldest written form of an oral tradition, but even if so I think I can get away with calling it the original.
For example when asked to paint Noah it used a stereotypical image of last century Jews. How would it know that Noah is linked with Jews, if not by finding another painting labeled Noah and working off of that?
If you run the same prompt multiple times you can start to see evidence of this. The images are similar but also clearly different, not at all a quick transformation of an existing image.
That's 11 bytes per image, and since most images are quite duplicative that actually is enough to more or less store every image permutation.
It only needs to store a fraction of the images to have a never ending supply of source material (I guess that's kind of obvious since this program works :)
Though I’m not really sure you could decompress the weights in some way to regenerate the 400 million images and metadata.
https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...
I advocate for being more precise in the language we use when talking about how these systems function.
These systems do not in any literal way "encode" or index or otherwise store specific images; they have incomprehensibly (to us) distributed representations representing aggregations over their training set.
The thrust of the observation is correct; but the specifics are very different, it's probably a more accurate "lay person" description to say something like, "the system was trained with only a few references for what Noah looked like, and doesn't have much initiative by default to improvise or make inferences, so if it tries in good faith to render Noah it is limited by what it's seen."
The point just being, it's less about making a collage or modifying a source, more about say 'doing its best to recapitulate a set of learned higher-level properties which are specific to the "Noah" concept.'
That sounds almost ... humane. I bet it will trigger some people who only see copyright violation in it. They don't understand the image is being created "from first principles".
The training of these image generation models minimizes the amount of necessary new visual information it needs to remember with each new image it sees during training, so whenever it sees a new image-caption pair it abstracts its qualities into an amalgamation of what its already seen. This is how Stable Diffusion managed to fit the complete corpus of human visual memory into 4.2 gigabytes.
Everything is more closely connection than the picture would imply at first glace, like how in Super Mario Bros. the bushes are just clouds colored green. Compression and efficiency leads to a hyperconnectivity in the way DALL-E ties prompts and images. This is why those old deep-dream images where everything looked like a dog's face were so unsettling. This triggers an uncanny response in the human brain, because it sees the vague shape of a face in a tree, or the vague shape of a body in the structure of a building.
I have been contemplating that if-when I get to participate in another D&D campaign,
it would be both easy and amazing to use MidJourney (or whatever), to prepare art for sessions and/or even make it on the fly as needed.
The lag between notion, and serviceable rendering with the right set of details...
...but not so much that night-before preparation of a half-dozen choice/likely images would be a burden.
And "realtime" is just going to get closer.
Art galleries and museums around the world are amused.
Other possibilities are grape (and the fruit was actually wine that they drank), or wheat because when it's when a baby first starts eating solids that they start really understanding the world around them.
On the one hand, you have people trying to generate MIDI compositions with AI. This works alright, but a machine-learning model doesn't understand which musical cues are significant and which are not. We have no good 'classification' metrics for music, which means that most procgen MIDI tunes are listenable, but about as boring as Chinese bootleg NES soundtracks circa late-80s.
On the other hand, you have people actually trying to recreate actual music a-la DALL-E or Stable Diffusion. This has slightly better results (since AI has an easier time parsing a finished product), but still pretty far away from being interesting to the ear. There's plenty of examples on YouTube, you'll probably get the gist after just 1 or 2 of them.
All of this really goes to show what a serendipitous project AI image generation has been. On it's face, we're frankly solving a really simple problem; how do we make a black box that can identify visual parameters and then synthesize their consequences in a photo? The nuance involved with making interesting music is a much different arena though, and I reckon that we simply don't have advanced enough classification to make it work.
If you hover the mouse over the image you will see the actual prompt - which is a human, Christian, interpretation of the verse, not the actual verse.
I am disappointed.
(I say Christian because no Jew would ever give that prompt for "Expulsion from Eden".)
> OpenAI has another AI, GPT-3, that I used to generate many of the ideas for DALL·E prompts. I wanted to explore DALL·E using a wide variety of styles and artists, and I have limitations and biases when it comes to my knowledge of art history. GPT-3 cast a wider net of styles and artists than I would’ve come up with on my own.... The GPT-3 prompts I used evolved over time, but this one is emblematic:
> Suggest 5 unique concept ideas for a work of visual art inspired by Luke 14:7-11 (do not pick the place of honor) in the Bible. Include art direction and a specific medium and artist to emulate. Include artists from a variety of eras, styles, and media. Try for an unusual perspective. Title, year, medium. Description.
Lower down, TempleOS's "god" library was a 'random' number generator that was seeded/pre-populated with the entirety of the KJV. The "GodBits" function would get you "random" numbers from it.
"""The easiest way to pick a random passage is to read timer that is in the random 1-20Mhz. If you have a faster timer, then divide by a number. The Bible is 4Meg. You want a random number from 0 to 4 million. The Bible is 100,000 lines of text. If you have the Bible in memory being edited, broken down by line number, you can pick a random line number from 0 to 100,000. If you flip 17 coins, you get a random number from 0 to 120,000. I use that for picking a line number.
God can do pretty-much any technique. The simplest and best is probably just randomly opening the Bible by hand."""
RIP.
I think what's changed is actually somewhat more radical. Most people will soon be unable to differentiate human from computer generated representational art.
The project itself is very interesting.
For example, Psa 83:18, the name of God was replaced by generic title 'the LORD' like a wildcard, so it reads "Let them know that you, WHOSE NAME is the Lord—". so it can also written as "Let them know that you, WHOSE NAME is the SOFTWARE ENGINEER".
Who is the immortal living and true God in the Bible behind that LORD you are addressing/devoting to? There are millions of false/dead God nowadays who can't help you, but only one true living God exists that will. It is important to know. Being specific is more helpful, genuine and sincere, than vaguely calling a generic wildcard title (in which, God has every right to not respond, since your devoted addressee is questionable.).
Research: See the correlation between the Isa 42:8, Exo 3:15, Matthew 6:9, John 12:28, John 17:26, Pro 18:10, Joel 2:32, Micah 4:5, Acts 15:4, and Psa 83:18. See that the generic wildcard name does not fit the picture, and understand how important it is for us to use God's personal name.
KEK. It drew a manga.
Also KEK:
> Birth of Christ
As an old RPG
> The parable of the lost sheep
That steampunk sheep
> The Last Supper
In a sci-fi conference room in Manhattan
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Pheno...
But no one wants to admit they are not infected with the humour meme.
You must be aware of examples from your own culture also.
> All someone had to do was a bunch of math to make a program emulate a human.
Christian theology says that, that "someone" who did it first was God. And,
> It just proves that we are just machines.
fits quite nicely with the idea that creation is subordinate to the Deity that made it.
Or, more snarkily, watch the Matrix.
How so? What is current AI doing that goes beyond the scope or intent of its programming? Are you arguing that DallE, Stable Diffusion and the like have developed souls?
>Or, more snarkily, watch the Matrix.
The Matrix is fiction, they didn't actually develop an AGI for the movies so invoking it in an argument about AI is as pointless as invoking Star Trek in an argument about post-scarcity economics.
There are stages between "literally only process if/else statements" and "has some nebulous concept such as a soul".
You don't define soul, yet you argue using it. And please defend how the algorithms in the Matrix aren't AGI. Do you think Agent Smith is a bunch of if/else statements? No? AGI.
And finally, fiction is an incredible tool for framing concepts. The fact you dismiss them as tools for discussing potential future philosophical concepts is disappointing.
People can create art.
Machines can create art.
Therefore, people are machines.
But it's true that lots of things have happened in science and engineering over time that have reduced humanity's sense of uniqueness and specialness. And some of those things have also been challenging for traditional religious belief. However, they don't necessarily disprove the religious belief, they just undermine certain intuitions that are highly compatible with it (like that a certain kind of human uniqueness must be a direct consequence of the divine plan).
In the theology of Antonio Rosmini, God places within humans the principle of universal being, by which we participate in the light of reason, which enobles us with the ability to think about concepts that are beyond our quite limited selves.
Of course, there is also something mysteriously wrong with human beings, such that our own efforts always betray the infinity of which intuitively conceive. This ought to give us pause as we try to create machines with human-like or super-human-like qualities.