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Dalewyn

>There’s no AI use for compression, that’s just standard HEIC.

Where is the line drawn between "AI" and codec compression?

* Both are algorithms.

* Both are fed source material.

* Both can be trained to produce a better output.

* Both are prompted.

* Both are highly parallel workloads.

* Both can be accelerated using accelerators.

* Both can produce new things ("hallucinate") and reproduce the source.

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Codecs don’t hallucinate new things. They have a much stricter input and output. HEIC and AV1 cannot add materially new information that wasn’t in the source data.

The rest of your points are too vague such that they could basically be applied to any number of computer algorithms.

Hallucination is the key element at play.

>The rest of your points are too vague such that they could basically be applied to any number of computer algorithms.

That is, in fact, a point I am making: "AI" as it stands today is a meaningless marketing term.

Fair. Though in the case of the primary article the issue is hallucination, and they likely mean generative AI tools that infill to get the resolution increase

xerox was already changing numbers in copier :

https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-rand...

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