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I bet most humans would fail this test on images that everybody agrees are adequate portrayals. Answering a short query with an image is a highly non-injective

by t_mann 4y ago

I bet most humans would fail this test on images that everybody agrees are adequate portrayals. Answering a short query with an image is a highly non-injective mapping, you simply don't know what aspects of the scene were specifically asked for in the query, and which ones were filled in by the artist / AI. Eg, the queries "opening of a medieval theme park", "announcement of a witch trial", "king charles proclamation" might all be reasonably answered by similar images containing a small crowd and a speaker in a medieval-looking setting, even though they're not meant to refer to the same time periods or settings at all.

masswerk 4y ago
Mind that the test is meant to include the prompt/query. E.g., take one of Alexander's winners, the robot in the cathedral: a human would probably answer to the prompt by making the cathedral part of the subject, by investing some effort in pointing out that this is indeed a cathedral, instead of just conforming to the query by showing some ambigue bits in the background, which may or may not represent parts of a cathedral. The quest of the machine is still "create an image by allotting the elements provided in the query", not "compose an image showing this and that as the subject" – and there's a significant difference. Closing this gap would require the AI to form a concept of what is given as a subject in its entirety and then constructing a plausible scene around this, by a meaningful placement of the subject, which is clearly beyond the state of art. I admit that there is a certain appeal to those images, for their distinctive dreamlike quality, as there's often a specific tension in the rather blunt composition and an apparent subject, which seems to be beyond what is actually depicted, as if this was just a casually picked specimen from a series of illustrations for a broader story line. But I'd bet that we're going to have been seeing too much of this soon, in order to be still amazed.

by t_mann 4y ago

masswerk 4y ago

Mind that the test is meant to include the prompt/query. E.g., take one of Alexander's winners, the robot in the cathedral: a human would probably answer to the prompt by making the cathedral part of the subject, by investing some effort in pointing out that this is indeed a cathedral, instead of just conforming to the query by showing some ambigue bits in the background, which may or may not represent parts of a cathedral. The quest of the machine is still "create an image by allotting the elements provided in the query", not "compose an image showing this and that as the subject" – and there's a significant difference. Closing this gap would require the AI to form a concept of what is given as a subject in its entirety and then constructing a plausible scene around this, by a meaningful placement of the subject, which is clearly beyond the state of art. I admit that there is a certain appeal to those images, for their distinctive dreamlike quality, as there's often a specific tension in the rather blunt composition and an apparent subject, which seems to be beyond what is actually depicted, as if this was just a casually picked specimen from a series of illustrations for a broader story line. But I'd bet that we're going to have been seeing too much of this soon, in order to be still amazed.