You young badgers imagine that it would be enough to smear a pound of paint on the canvas and you’re already a modern painter. I would be willing to accept this abomination for a bad joke, if there was even the slightest humor behind it. But this here is an abracadabra! A nothing!

Kishon 1986

In this post the dialogue is realised by an interaction of virtual characters, for more information please check the page “Virtual characters

Manuel

I’ve got the most … disturbing results!

Today 15:48  

Sam

Hi Manuel! Yes I did!  😊                                                                          

Today 15:50  

Manuel

Absolutely not! Barely recognizable pieces, boards with adjacent squares of the same color

Today 15:51  

Sam

I’ve had some with triangular squares … 😝                                                                                               

Today 15:52  

Manuel

Why does this happen? The traffic jams were just as bad! Wonky roads, blobs as cars ….

Today 15:53 

Sam

Yep, like a surrealist paining, with things melting, flowing into one another                                            

Today 15:55  

Manuel

Right! That’s it exactly!

Today 15:58  

Manuel

😁😁😁

Today 15:58  

Sam

That is also more or less how the algorithm works …                        

Today 16:02  

Manuel

Huh? 😳😳

Today 16:01  

Manuel

What do you mean?

Today 16:01  

Sam

Well, if you use more complex queries, like “a panda climbing the empire state building during an eclipse”                              

Today 16:05  

Sam

the AI generator will try to mash all those elements together, mixing them, overlaying them, and so on                            

Today 16:05  

Manuel

OK, so something like making a collage? 😊

Today 16:06  

Sam

Exactly, yes. The AI “knows” some words, the relations between the words and the pictures, and can learn from them

Today 16:07  

Manuel

Learn to make new relations?

Today 16:08  

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”

Today 16:10  

Manuel

You know, I’ve actually tried “bicycle” and some other everyday things, and the results were terrible …

Today 16:11  

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

Today 16:11  

Sam

Yep, that is down to two things: ostensive definitions and scribbling               

Today 16:12  

Manuel

You’ve lost me …. 😅😅

Today 16:12  

Sam

I’ll explain then!                                                                                         

Today 16:13  

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