Scott Alexander won his three-year bet on AI progress in image generation compositionality within three months, demonstrating unexpectedly rapid AI advancement.
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Scott Alexander discusses his recent bet about AI image models' ability to handle compositionality, which he won much sooner than expected. He explains the concept of compositionality in AI image generation, showing examples of DALL-E2's limitations. Scott then describes the bet he made, predicting improvement by 2025. However, newer AI models like Google's Imagen achieved the required level of compositionality within just three months. This rapid progress supports the idea that AI development is advancing faster than many predict, and that scaling and normal progress can solve even complex problems in AI.
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