Definitely AI generated art. If you asked me 3-4 years ago I'd tell you there is no way neural networks would understand how to generate a nice looking image. The fact that high quality AI art is way less expensive computationally than generating text still confuses me. Like, I can generate beautiful 1024x1024 images within seconds but this text generation model needs 20gb of vram? Huh?!

Ai near perfectly replicating voices and creating fantastic looking art within the span of it being a joke to very impressive in like 1~2 years.

Also Ai chat models being able to hold a decent conversation and not be gibberish or obviously inhuman is very impressive.

To me it's been audiobooks and youtube videos where I can no longer tell if it's an AI or a person speaking.

How much people mistake AI for real intelligence.

Two things, related to LLMs:

1. How reasonable and usable it is or seems when all it does is predicting the next word.
2. How good it is at coding and explaining programming concepts.

The sudden explosion in ai popularity when chatGPT came out. I didn't expect to see this topic going mainstream for ~~meny~~ many more years before that happened.

The fact that it's already being commercialiased in such a massive way. That it's to the point where it's everyday use is sitting firmly in the public sphere and so is being used by millions of people around the world, not just in a specialised way, but to visualise all sorts of goofy things. I find that amazing. Regular people know what ChatGPT is. Perhaps not Midjourney and the hundred other products, but the fact that they know about one of them already is evidence, to me at least, of just how fast this things moves.

AI being able to write code.

How quickly open source large language models that you can run on consumers hardware caught up with gpt-3

DALL-E was the first development which shocked me. AlphaGo was very impressive on a technical level, and much earlier than anticipated, but it didn't feel different.
GANs existed, but they never seemed to have the creativity, nor understanding of prompts, which was demonstrated by DALL-E. Of all things, the image of an avocado-themed chair is still baked into my mind. I remember being gobsmacked by the imagery, and when I'd recovered from that, just how "simple" the step from what we had before to DALL-E was.
The other thing which surprised me was the step from image diffusion models to 3D and video. We certainly haven't gotten anywhere near the quality in those domains yet, but they felt so far from the image domain that we'd need some major revolution in the way we approached the problem. The thing which surprised me the most was just how fast the transition from images to video happened.

There’s a subreddit called AIgreentext.

The night I discovered it, I spent about half an hour reading them. Each one was the best one I’d ever read. They had me laughing so hard that I had to put my phone down for fear of a heart attack. Like I was seriously worried about sudden death I was laughing so hard.

I’ve never laughed like that in my life. I didn’t know such laughed was possible. I’m not exaggerating: I stopped because I was scared of literally dying of laughter.

Some of the AI generated art has been beautiful.

Exponential curve on a logarithmic axis? Now I've seen it all.

That intelligence chart is pretty fucking bad tho

The simultaneous nuance and beauty of the art coupled with inability to get hands right. It's both humorous and chilling.

I'm amazed how how human Pi AI feels. If you haven't tried yet, I highly recommend it!

https://pi.ai/talk?scr