[FFmpeg-devel] VDD conference invitation - Dublin 22-24 Sept 2023

[Tomas Härdin]

lör 2023-09-09 klockan 15:53 +0200 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 09:04:25AM +0200, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> > fre 2023-09-08 klockan 15:09 +0200 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> [...]
> 
> > > AI based filters are neglegted at a time everything is shifting
> > > to neural networks and AI. 
> > 
> > Good. AI is a meme. Polynomial regression is just as good.
> 
> Theres a lot i could reply but lets pick 2 choices
> 1. FFmpeg is about data compression so lets look at compression
> ill make it easy, just a "toy" project from fabrice, beat this with
> Polynomial regression
> https://bellard.org/ts_server/ts_zip.html

I have actually had something like this in mind. Also better predictors
for intra compression.

> 2. lets just ask AI, and while we can argue about this, i REALLY like
> to see
> your Polynomial regression producing anything that resembles english
> text
> heres chat gpts reply, first attempt:

I'm not sure what that wall of text is supposed to accomplish, a Markov
chain can produce similar output. It's just mystified statistics, or
machine laundered labour. Or AI voodoo as I've heard it referred to.
See the paper "Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets"
by Cheng et al

The main thing is that "AI" gets grant money whereas "polynomial
regression" does not. The former is deliberately mystified, the latter
is perfectly understood.

/Tomas