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Pattern recognition and “generative” ai are 2 completely different things. One is helpful tool with limited capabilities , the other is an overhyped markov chain that uses humongous amounts of energy and steals humans’ creative works.
It is my understanding that the advances in classifier models were and are inexorably linked to generative models. Wasn't Deepdream a fairly crude inversion of existing classifier models?
You're totally misunderstanding the context of that statement. The problem of classifying an image as a certain animal is related to the problem of generating a synthetic picture of a certain animal. But classifying an image of as a certain animal is totally unrelated to generating a natural-language description of "information about how to distinguish different species". Moreover, we know empirically that these LLM-generated descriptions are highly unreliable.