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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9089750" data-attributes="member: 7023840">From This American Life, <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript" target="_blank">episode 803</a>, discussing an experience with ChatGPT4-&nbsp;Things got stranger, though. Sebastien woke up, middle of the night, with this thought-- I wonder if it can draw. Because again it's been trained on words. It has never seen anything.Drawings seem completely outside its realm. There are other AI models trained specifically to create images, but this one, again, only knew words. It's just playing the game of &quot;what is the next word I should spit out?&quot; To test this, he needed a way for it to even be able to try to draw. So he does something clever.He asks it to write a piece of computer code to draw something. And the coding language he asks it to use, he picks something intentionally obscure, not really meant for drawing pictures at all. It's called TikZ. OK, so he has this idea, gets out of bed, opens up his laptop, and types in draw me a unicorn in TikZ. He has two little kids asleep in the next room who are always talking about unicorns.Sebastien Bubeck- And it started to output lines of code. I take those lines of code, put it into a TikZ compiler, and then I press enter. And then, boom, you know, the unicorn comes on onto the screen.The thing she's describing is they took the code it had written for drawing the unicorn, they edited it to take out the horn, and turned the unicorn around so it was facing the opposite direction. Then they fed that code back to a new session of GPT-4 and said-- &quot;This is code for drawing a unicorn, but it needs a horn. Can you add it?&quot; It put it right on the head.....There's other examples. But as these quickly evolve, the issue I think more people are grappling with is to really try and think about not what they can or can't do ... but rather, why do we keep insisting we are special?I don't have good answers to the last question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9089750, member: 7023840"] From This American Life, [URL='https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript']episode 803[/URL], discussing an experience with ChatGPT4- Things got stranger, though. Sebastien woke up, middle of the night, with this thought-- I wonder if it can draw. Because again it's been trained on words. It has never seen anything. Drawings seem completely outside its realm. There are other AI models trained specifically to create images, but this one, again, only knew words. It's just playing the game of "what is the next word I should spit out?" To test this, he needed a way for it to even be able to try to draw. So he does something clever. He asks it to write a piece of computer code to draw something. And the coding language he asks it to use, he picks something intentionally obscure, not really meant for drawing pictures at all. It's called TikZ. OK, so he has this idea, gets out of bed, opens up his laptop, and types in draw me a unicorn in TikZ. He has two little kids asleep in the next room who are always talking about unicorns. Sebastien Bubeck- And it started to output lines of code. I take those lines of code, put it into a TikZ compiler, and then I press enter. And then, boom, you know, the unicorn comes on onto the screen. The thing she's describing is they took the code it had written for drawing the unicorn, they edited it to take out the horn, and turned the unicorn around so it was facing the opposite direction. Then they fed that code back to a new session of GPT-4 and said-- "This is code for drawing a unicorn, but it needs a horn. Can you add it?" It put it right on the head. .... There's other examples. But as these quickly evolve, the issue I think more people are grappling with is to really try and think about not what they can or can't do ... but rather, why do we keep insisting we are special? I don't have good answers to the last question. [/QUOTE]

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