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by ASalazarMX 1486 days ago
If DALL-E had a choice to output "Command not understood", maybe we wouldn't be discussing this.

Like those AIs that guess what you draw, and recognize random doodling as "clouds", DALL-E is probably using the least unlikely route. That a gibberish word is drawn as a bird is maybe because it was "bird (2%), goat (1%), radish (1%)".

1. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com
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mjburgess 1485 days ago
That's extremely optimisic. When faced with gibberish, the "confidences" are routinely 90%+ as with "meaningful" input.

It's almost as-if its an illusion designed to fool, we, the users.. by only providing inputs meaningful to us, we come to the foolish idea that it understands these inputs.

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superjan 1485 days ago
This is a good point. The fact that DALL-E will try to render something, no matter how meaningless the input, is a trait it has in common with many neural networks. If you want to use them for actual work, they should be able to fail rather than freestyle.
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