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by empath75 3366 days ago
i don't even know how that's possible. How could it recover a golf course?
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In all of these cases, the software is supplying details that are likely in context on the basis of its prior training, rather than details that are somehow known to be right. One analogy might be asking a human painter to complete a partial portrait of a person. The painter might be able to guess at the person's likely posture and plausible items of clothing based on the information of the unfinished portrait, but of course the real person who was the model might have been wearing something else entirely. The fact that the completion is plausible and self-consistent doesn't mean that it's correct.
Did it recover a golf course? If you're talking about examples #1 and #5, the golf course is the input, and the output is a map.