AI see, AI do
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Manuel
I’ve got the most … disturbing results!
Sam
Hi Manuel! Yes I did! 😊
Manuel
Absolutely not! Barely recognizable pieces, boards with adjacent squares of the same color
Sam
I’ve had some with triangular squares … 😝
Manuel
Why does this happen? The traffic jams were just as bad! Wonky roads, blobs as cars ….
Sam
Yep, like a surrealist paining, with things melting, flowing into one another
Manuel
Right! That’s it exactly!
Manuel
😁😁😁
Sam
That is also more or less how the algorithm works …
Manuel
Huh? 😳😳
Manuel
What do you mean?
Sam
Well, if you use more complex queries, like “a panda climbing the empire state building during an eclipse”
Sam
the AI generator will try to mash all those elements together, mixing them, overlaying them, and so on
Manuel
OK, so something like making a collage? 😊
Sam
Exactly, yes. The AI “knows” some words, the relations between the words and the pictures, and can learn from them
Manuel
Learn to make new relations?
Sam
Indeed, so from pictures tagged as “man riding a bicycle” and “monkey” the AI can then generate a picture of “monkey riding a bicycle”
Manuel
You know, I’ve actually tried “bicycle” and some other everyday things, and the results were terrible …
Manuel
none of the bikes I’ve see in those picture would actually work … some they had no pedals, others too many and in the wrong places
Sam
Yep, that is down to two things: ostensive definitions and scribbling
Manuel
You’ve lost me …. 😅😅
Sam
I’ll explain then!
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