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Generally, it looks like the AI found these sorts of examples and merged them together:
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That bottom middle one also looks like some kind of cool three-wheel cyclecar experiment. Again, there’s no understanding of automotive symmetry or even the fundamental layout of a car. Some of those trucks do have the old school Bugatti horse-collar grille, and look like pretty cool sometimes hot-rodded pickup trucks. Huh! This is interesting, because it seems to have almost exclusively chosen old, 30s-era Bugattis as opposed to modern ones like a Veyron or Chiron. Let’s try making it come up with something that doesn’t really exist, but is a combination of two things that definitely do. It’s also interesting to note that most of the streets are cobblestone, because most pictures of Tatras are from picturesque Eastern European old cities with these sorts of streets. In case you forgot what a Tatra looks like, here you go (via Wikimedia Commons): I think it’d really interesting how, despite getting so much generally right about the idiosyncratic stylistic design of a Tatra, it somehow doesn’t understand really basic fundamental things about cars like how they’re almost always bilaterally symmetrical. Though, the middle row, rightmost car looks kind of like a Jaguar Mk2 or something. Well, those do resemble Tatras! Severely mutated Tatras, sure, but there’s definitely some Tatra T87 in there. With that in mind, I started with one of the best ways to start any car-related whatever, by asking it to show me some “Tatra cars in city.” Here’s the result:
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So, with that in mind, let’s look at some AI-generated cars!Īll of these start with text prompts to get the system going. It’s hard to explain, but I think it is something genuinely new in the timeline of images that humans have had some hand in creating. The system manages to get many details right but has no idea what they are, what they’re for, or really anything. It can draw things that look like cars, even specific cars or cars of a given era, but it’s also very clear it has no idea what a car actually is.Īccording to the more detailed technical explainer, images are built from what appear to be discrete tokens, mosaic’d together: The images suggest something that has a lot of skill and observational understanding without any overall comprehension.
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I’m not clear on how it specifically “draws” the images, but it seems to be taking elements from images and somehow re-processing them and compositing them together, I think? I am not clear at all, but one thing I can say is that the results are simultaneously impressive and a bit disturbing. Here’s the simple explanation of how it works, according to the DALL-E Mini site:Ī model that judges the quality of the images generated for better filtering The system is trained with text-image pairs from the internet, meaning that it sort of recognizes what certain images are of based on tags, and has a vast library of these to pull from. I only have the most rudimentary understanding of how the system actually works, but from what I’ve read, the full DALL-E system uses something known as a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, which uses a neural network that implements methods to make it better at predicting relevance of inputs from a given dataset. Of course, the only good use for a computer is making it do things with cars, so I tried a lot of car-related inputs to see what I’d get. Like many people, I’ve been playing with the image-from-text-generating system called Craiyon, which was known as DALL-E Mini, which was based on the much more advanced DALL-E. Maybe it’s just a bunch of if-then-else statements, maybe it’s more, but whatever it is, it sure is weird. Even the name is deceptive, because what we’re calling AI now isn’t really “intelligence,” at least not as we understand it in humans. Tesla CEO Elon Musk did some dire fear-mongering about AI becoming so intelligent it wants to murder us all I don’t buy this - not because I don’t think an advanced machine intelligence couldn’t find a suitable motive, but more because I don’t think we’re anywhere near close to real artificial intelligence. We live in a very strange era of Artificial Intelligence.