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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2022 Augustroywiggins

About whether image AIs like DALL-E create new things the way human artists do.

I guess I'll believe it when an AI trained entirely on 19th century art manages to reinvent 20th century art based on that alone.

An AI trained only on 19th-century art reinvents 20th-century art from that alone.

Has this happened?

Yes 2 (2%)Not sure 45 (36%)No 77 (62%)

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