3 hours ago
"Orca with a knife". I have seen it before: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3sXkwYLboncsNYE8A
2 hours ago
Where is that from?
2 hours ago
A Nazca pot, here's another one and a picture of the whale line (article from 2019): https://www.antiguoperu.com/2019/11/cabezas-en-el-mar.html
30 minutes ago
This is actually a really cool image recognition problem! I can imagine that an AI could actually be better at spotting these things than humans.
3 hours ago
Some of them are more like people seeing the shape Jesus or a penis in clouds.
3 hours ago
Yeah, I saw this yesterday and while most of these look legitimate, some of them are a real stretch.
It does make me wonder if these models suffer from pareidolia. If so, does that say anything about how similar they are to human intelligence? Or are they basically "inheriting" humanity's evolutionary biases as a function of their having been trained on human-generated content?
2 hours ago
They can be confirmed by looking at the ground up close. The shapes are made removing pebbles from the desert floor and replacing them with differently-coloured pebbles.
3 hours ago
The ground survey provides good confirmation that there was some human-created formation, though maybe what exactly they depict is harder to figure out.
an hour ago
This reminds me of the ishahara color blindness test.
4 hours ago
Does this make more or less likely to be made by aliens in the minds of those that think so?
3 hours ago
Naming that one figures the astronaut almost feel like someone is trolling those types. Looks nothing like an astronaut.
3 hours ago
It is literally an amogus.. an among us crewmate in the exact format of the meme Like the ultimate case of pareidolia it has been spotted in trashcans, egyptian hieroglyphs as the god Medjed, now here. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was fake due to this meme alone but the sources I see all look completely legit, the image credit guy alone seems almost famous in wikipedia
an hour ago
I must say I don't follow you at all. The two eyes makes it look nothing like an astronaut or the amogus crewmate. The key visual there is a uniform visor, not two circles.
38 minutes ago
Primarily the two legs, no arms, and backpack Yeah you’re right there are two eyes which doesnt line up but the Internet went crazy for the amogus hieroglyph which also had eyes
3 hours ago
It does look a bit like an owl
4 hours ago
Who knows what a conspiracy theorist thinks? But honestly the fact that geoglyph construction techniques seem to have evolved over at least several hundred years to become ever clearer does seem to be a(n even stronger) point against. If it was aliens, wouldn't they have had the perfect method from the start? In fact, if it was actually aliens, why would they not just burn the images into the soil from orbit with a laser instead of laboriously piling up rocks?
3 hours ago
>In fact, if it was actually aliens, why would they not just burn the images into the soil from orbit with a laser instead of laboriously piling up rocks?
They may have tried and accidentally destroyed all the other test planets with their death Star.
2 hours ago
My recollection is that the main hypothesis among these crowds (where's the conspiracy?) is that the lines are human made, but in response to 'visiters'.
2 hours ago
Could an ancient civilisation have their own Burning Man?
2 hours ago
They did have ayahuasca, weeks of free time after the harvest, and a huge playa.
2 hours ago
>”Humanoid”
3 hours ago
looks fake, tbh - like "mary appeared on toast" fake
3 hours ago
Would love to see the never-AI guys chime in about how'd they'd rather not have this than suffer the depredations of BigAI
3 hours ago
I'm mostly unhappy with the current usage of LLMs. Not sure if I qualify as a "never-AI guy".
My main pet peeve is that AI is a blurry term almost to the point it has no definitions. It's basically a marketing term. AI has been applied, historically, to many trendy and novel facets of computer science, until they are not novel anymore and then they stop being AI. Expert systems, voice generation, image processing, genetic algorithms...
My take on the article: this is cool. I don't think I would call it AI though, if I could avoid it.