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dofmtoday at 4:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

That wasn’t an AI tool at all, though. Neither is pre-2023 content-aware fill, AFAIK.

They are both PatchMatch (well the healing brush certainly is), which is a heroic bit of code. Entirely deterministic statistical algorithm. Not AI by really any definition (including back then)


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nandomrumbertoday at 4:31 PM

Probably not you, but on this very forum there are plenty who will argue that LLMs / AI are entirely deterministic and that given enough time, a chisel, and sufficient clay tablets, any AI output can be calculated by hand.

I don’t know enough about anything to determine which opinion is correct.

Is AI output not just matrix multiplication and a random seed?

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embedding-shapetoday at 4:20 PM

In my mind, it's as much "AI" as "AI Slate ID" introduced in this release, which I guess was kind of the point of what GP said.