[Wowfunhappy]

> People generally don't take pictures of rolling green hillsides. But they very often take pictures of rolling green hillsides with sheep on them. So if you ask the robot to draw a picture of rolling green hillsides, it will include sheep. Or, if you ask it to draw a picture of the savanna, it will want to include giraffes.

Don't humans do this too, though? If I asked someone to draw a picture of rolling green hills, they may well add sheep as an additional detail.

[dwyerm]

Well, personally, I had the "bliss" image from the Windows wallpaper collection in my head while I was writing this. But I'm cognizant that most of the photos of hillsides I took in Ireland had sheep in them.

[Wowfunhappy]

I wonder if that would still be true, though, if "bliss" wasn't a default Windows wallpaper. In other words, you're still referring to common pictures, you're just particularly biased to one in particular that you've seen a lot.

I haven't done the experiment, but I'd posit that if you walked up to a group of 8-year-old children, gave them crayons, and asked them to draw pictures of "rolling hills", a significant portion would add sheep, cows, flowers, or some other details—even though a majority of rolling hills in the world don't have any of these features.