That's sort of how art works, though. You hone your sensibility as an artist, and then you 'know it when you see it'. Anno et al looked at the fonts, and they s

That's sort of how art works, though. You hone your sensibility as an artist, and then you 'know it when you see it'. Anno et al looked at the fonts, and they saw it was good. Explaining why it's good is quite another thing altogether. Artists are always being surprised by how things 'click' or how the viewer notices patterns the artists weren't even (consciously) aware of putting in. (And to a certain degree, if you could adequately explain and convey it in words, why would you bother with the art in the first place?) I've been using NNs to generate poems and Irish music lately based on pairwise comparison of poems/music (based on https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/ https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/ ), and it's definitely striking how fast I can make the evaluation of which one is better, but then how long it would take to reread or relisten to them and verbalize what exactly made one better than the other.