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I understand why "This person does not exist" is interesting. Generating a fake person seemed hard until we could do it. But why is this interesting? Minus the
by Jeff_Brown 5y ago
I understand why "This person does not exist" is interesting. Generating a fake person seemed hard until we could do it.
But why is this interesting? Minus the animation, isn't this something any smart high-schooler could do with pen and paper?
- jyriand 5y agoI think the hard part is that you can't draw something that already exists
- skohan 5y agoIs it guaranteed not to exist? I would have assumed the interesting part is that these obey the laws of chemistry. But even then it seems like you could do something fairly simple algorithmically to achieve this.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoYeah, it seems like the only way to guarantee it doesn't exist (rather than that it simply hasn't been catalogued) would be to draw something impossible -- which seems less interesting than drawing something possible.
- libria 5y agoHeh, just found out there's one for numbers https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoI just laughed for a full thirty seconds. What's most interesting about that is somebody actually bothered to put it together.
- tyingq 5y agoIt did reliably generate numbers that produced zero google search results. Maybe that's what they meant? Though it did also occasionally spit out a "number" with a letter in it, like "q29199.951301068788".
- sodality2 5y agoThe logic for that generator is particularly basic: https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/js/main.js https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/js/main.js
- skissane 5y ago> Minus the animation, isn't this something any smart high-schooler could do with pen and paper? Our 8 year old does this with pen and paper, and sometimes also with some website that lets you draw molecules (there's a few, forget which one(s) he uses). That said, his molecules aren't always possible (he understands valence but sometimes he makes mistakes with it or just stops caring about it).
- curryst 5y ago> Generating a fake person seemed hard until we could do it. This is also something a talented high-schooler could do well before now. The interesting part there is teaching a computer to generate plausibly-human faces, not the act of generating fake people in general. This is the same way. This seems more interesting because it has practical implications. Generating chemicals that haven't been investigated is the first step towards a programmatic pipeline that can identify and investigate novel chemicals. These seem of particular interest because they're of the "doesn't currently exist" variety, rather than the "cannot exist under the laws of physics" variety.