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> I wish this article was just 3 paragraphs.

AI might have problems with single bananas, but it can do that very well:

> In an experiment with the AI program Midjourney, the author found a peculiar issue: the program rendered images of monkeys holding bananas, but it consistently depicted two or more bananas even when asked to render a single banana.

The author suggests that the AI’s predilection for rendering multiple bananas might be due to biases in its training data or the lack of precise labeling. He points out that AI systems like Midjourney don’t understand objects in the human sense but rather recognize common patterns. These systems are only as good as the data fed to them and can inadvertently contain biases or incorrect representations.

The article further delves into existential questions about the nature of human intelligence, creativity, and morality compared to AI’s pattern recognition. It questions whether human cognition and morality are just advanced pattern matching with a better understanding of the physical world. The author also touches on the distinction between programming and prompt engineering, highlighting that the latter requires a more nuanced understanding of language and how AI models interpret it.



That's immediately inaccurate in a way that distorts the whole article.

The author was trying to produce a single banana on a grey background.

The monkey was a later attempt at prompt engineering.

That AI summary is completely misleading.


The lone summary problem


The problem with generated summaries as opposed to generated code for example, is that there is no way to verify them without reproducing the entire thing "manually".

Can't do better then brute force for verification.




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