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1. Mark (barkmarnett@scholar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2019 08:45:09 UTC Mark

   I am designing lessons for middle school students to explore topics in AI and we will be looking at Art first, and I am now genuinely intrigued by it. It makes us question "what is art?" https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18013190/ai-art-portrait-auction-christies-belamy-obvious-robbie-barrat-gans

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   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2019 02:25:30 UTC Bernie

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     @BarkMarnett all these deep questions ("what's beauty?" "what's being good?") couldn't be answered because the philosophers were looking for a hard definition...

     ...now we could give a mathematical definition, although perhaps not a satisfying one: beauty is that thing that, when you put it as input to this reference neural network, gives a score >0.5 for the label "beautiful" 🙂

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2019 02:29:05 UTC Bernie

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     @BarkMarnett I guess this is just the ML version of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

     I remember uploading my photo to some classifier network, and there were all these labels "male: 0.9", "caucasian: 0.8"...

     Then I see "attractive: 0.2" GAH! FUCK YOU, AI! :blobsad:

     We clearly need better machine learning algorithms, lol 😉