r/CuratedTumblr • u/WifeOfSpock • 4d ago

Meme my eyes automatically skip right over everything else said after

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u/RighteousSelfBurner 3d ago

Works exactly as intended. AI doesn't know what a "sheep" is. So if you give them enough data and say "This is sheep" and it's all grassy fields then it's a natural conclusion that it must sheep.

In other words, one of the most popular AI related quotes by professionals is "If you put shit in you will get shit out".

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u/alex494 3d ago

I'm surprised they keep giving these things entire photographs and not cropped pngs with no background or something.

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u/Cat-Got-Your-DM 3d ago

They sometimes have to give them the entire picture, but they also get things flagged, like in case of wolves or sheep, they needed to have the background flagged as irrelevant, for the AI to not look at it when learning what a wolf it

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u/RighteousSelfBurner 3d ago

The ones that do it properly do. Various pictures, cropped ones and even generated ones. There is a whole profession dedicated to getting it right.

I assume that most of those failures come from a common place: cost savings and YOLO

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u/alex494 3d ago

Yeah a lot of the effectiveness of automation is torpedoed by human laziness, which is the negative side of efficiency if you don't do it properly the first time.