A friend had the brilliant idea of asking one of those image AIs to draw a diagram of the anatomy of a human hand, since that seems to be the thing they have the most trouble drawing. The AI managed then produced these diagrams, which are frankly impressive in some ways, while 100 % confirming that they cannot draw human hands. Never mind getting the number of fingers right, look at these skeletal structures and tell me there aren't deeper issues at work.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 years ago

    Yeah it's a fascinating demonstration of the limits of 'AI' in the fact that even with the full depth and breadth of humanity's knowledge, without clear and concise commands to direct it its about as useful as a paperweight.

    • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I think they try to train these AI by having the people who requested the picture grade the results. That might help them learn to avoid making ugly mistakes like lines not meeting, but I think it will reinforce the problems in this picture. Because the only feedback this AI would get would be "FUCK YES! This is exactly what I wanted! Perfect drawing of a human hand!".

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, like unless they program the bot parameters to interpret the vague language we use in common parlance into actual useful data that positively builds it's database then yet again it'll have the usefulness of a paperweight but with an interesting gimmick.

        • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          This is a cool result, and I enjoyed watching it, so it's not exactly useless. They just cannot improve accuracy from most people's feedback. I don't think I'm alone in giving the top right picture with seven fingers and a creepy spider-human hybrid skeleton top marks. And the AI will just absorb positive feedback as having done the right thing. This will not make the AI better at drawing human hands, but it might make it even better at drawing abominations. I'm there for that.

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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            2 years ago

            but it might make it even better at drawing abominations. I’m there for that.

            Same, actually. Its like having an AI Zdzislaw Beksinski.