Recognizing patterns is easily mistaken for understanding.
Chapter 1

Building a brain from scratch

Chapter 2

The art of practice and error

Chapter 3

The magic of human language

Chapter 4

Painting with pixels

Ch 4 · Painting with pixels
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007skaty The competitive clash between generator and discriminator neural networks.

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007skaty AI Diffusion Denoising

We peel back the static till a brand-new picture starts to show

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Recognizing patterns is easily mistaken for understanding.

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007skaty How artificial intelligence image generators misunderstand the physical world

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Reading the visual world

007skaty Mathematical filters slide across images, processing simple lines, circular shapes, and complex objects like bicycles through progressive network layers.

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Creating art from pure static

007skaty Programs like DALL-E learn by adding noise to photos, then reverse the process.

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The Maker and Faker
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007skaty Sort real photos from AI fakes to learn how neural networks train each other.

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Fun Fact

Pixel math: A standard high-definition image contains over 2 million pixels, each represented by three numbers (red, green, blue).

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Gossip

Should AI art be allowed in museums?

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Quiz

Who popularized Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in 1989 for reading handwritten zip codes?

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007skaty Computer vision systems read and analyze the visual world.

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What do the earliest layers of a computer vision network detect?

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What is the name of the process where AI generates images by removing random digital noise?

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How does a diffusion model begin the process of generating a brand new image?

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What are the two competing networks inside a GAN called?

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Who invented Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 2014?

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Which of the following is a common visual error (artifact) in AI-generated images?

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Why do AI image generators sometimes draw people with six fingers?

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