Comment by mimixco
8 years ago
The means to do those things were programmed by humans. While the computer is faster at assessing all of the possibilities, it isn't coming up with anything that wasn't made by possible by the human-programmed software.
We now have to have safety belts for Amazon workers to keep them from being run over by robots!
It's unclear to me if you are familiar with GANs, mentioned by grandparent.
A software can hallucinate entirely new photographs that did not exist before of a certain category of objects, like a "dog" or a "burger" or a "celebrity".
Of course it was "made possible" by the human-programmed software, but very very indirectly. In particular, the programmer doesn't really know deeply how it does its thing, and cannot possibly create the same result himself manually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQp28OqwNQ