That epigram is referring to a fundamental asymmetry of information between words and pictures. Having a machine that can come up with many different pictures f

That epigram is referring to a fundamental asymmetry of information between words and pictures. Having a machine that can come up with many different pictures from a few words doesn’t only not say anything about how to make a picture from any 10K words, it somewhat reinforces the epigram’s point. Those models may be more adequately described by #63: When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out that we do and they don’t.