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New compression technique (lemmy.today)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, it's really awful. With any luck, AI winter will follow AI summer, like usual, and the serious people can come out again. Although, aren't CNNs more of a this century thing? I guess two decades is still decades...

IIRC autoencoders actually produce the same image to within our ability to notice, as well.