Aaron Hertzmann

Tweets express my own opinions, and not of institutions I'm affiliated with. he/him.

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

I still post here because so much of my community is still here. But I urge you to try elsewhere, we need critical mass in a place that doesn't thrive on spreading hate and threatening freedom and democracy.
I'm on all the other main sites with the same username, details below

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

"I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization."

This is very far from the truth. There are many (IMO compelling) arguments against (silicon, digital) machine consciousness that in no way depend on human exceptionalism, or even on carbon chauvinism.

To get a good sense of the current debate in academia, have a look at this just-out @BBSJournal paper, along with 50 commentaries (from all perspective), and my response. You'll see a much richer debate than you describe. https://t.co/bQVmlAXLa0

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@johnennis https://t.co/aMbBO9gVxM

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

For years, I've heard from my fellow computer scientists that "the brain is just a computer" or "we can just simulate human brains in a computer." I think both are wrong, and, now that it's a public discussion, it's no longer just academic. 🧵
https://t.co/ipmfMaAxzx

[Jim Cummings @jimmycthatsme]

It would take 8 hours for Pixar's computers to render a single frame of Toy Story in 1995.

[Yael Vinker @YVinker]

The full workshop recording is now available here 👉
https://t.co/NQofLrUBfm

A big thank you again to all the wonderful speakers, participants, and organizers who made the workshop possible! 🎨

https://t.co/dZaoDPv5Zt

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@prathyvsh @keenanisalive @kendrictonn FWIW I also wrote about it more here: https://t.co/dF0CNItzXf

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

In this blog post, I describe four Western art-historical eras, and why I think they are crucial to understanding how we talk about art today (at least in the US and Europe). 1/
https://t.co/2XFsYjlTrr

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@prathyvsh @keenanisalive @kendrictonn Yes, it’s in this book.

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@keenanisalive @kendrictonn "functional" isn't the right word. "Art" in the Romantic sense is about creativity, beauty, art for arts sake, unlike beforehand. Too nuanced for a Twitter discussion anyway.

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@keenanisalive @kendrictonn I was put off by Isaacson's book implying he was a scientist when "science" as a concept didn't exist until several hundreds years later either; I recommend _The Age of Wonder_ by Richard Holmes on this topic. (I didn't read much of Isaacson's book.)

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@keenanisalive @kendrictonn From these quotes, it doesn't sound like they were arguing for painting as "art" in the Romantic sense of something valuable for its own sake (rather than functional like alterpieces, portraits, odes, etc). And I get the impression that's when art really became "elevated."

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@keenanisalive @kendrictonn It was the Romantic era when the concept of "art" was invented; they were still trademen in the Renaissance. There's a letter from Leonardo complaining that the woodworker who made the frame around one of his paintings got paid more than he did.
https://t.co/fRpKTmQd0a

[Sheng-Yu Wang @ShengYuWang6]

How similar are two images? Prior metrics (e.g., LPIPS, DreamSim) give just a single score. But actually, there are multiple *senses* of similarity (color, pose, etc.)

We introduce TPIPS -- Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Similarity

"pip install tpips"
https://t.co/L726pdRx6b 🧵

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

@korymath Only did "YES, NAND..."

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

I wrote a little piece about how science fiction in movies and TV doesn't care much about accuracy or predicting the future, which is why it's not a good guide for understanding real technology.
https://t.co/z0VB2VFvOC

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

Here's a video I found online that illustrates the kinds of instabilities you can get in physical simulation, and this is just for a single-scale system with simple, non-chaotic dynamics (as compared to any biological system).
https://t.co/xP2YTPfEUr

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

For years, I've heard from my fellow computer scientists that "the brain is just a computer" or "we can just simulate human brains in a computer." I think both are wrong, and, now that it's a public discussion, it's no longer just academic. 🧵
https://t.co/ipmfMaAxzx

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

See my blog for a longer, shareable version of this thread: https://t.co/ipmfMaAxzx