Listening to OpenAI CEO tonight talking about how AI is a game changer that leap frogs society to a new level.
Meanwhile, it’s so stupid it thinks I have 5 fingers on my right hand.
While odd, it can be viewed as artistic license that it has me emerging from the INSIDE of the piano, rather than sitting in front of the keyboard. But there’s no world where giving me 6 fingers is anything but a design error that would give a 5th grade art homework assignment a “C” or lower.
But we’ve all been seeing these extra-finger AI graphics for a couple years now. I’m mainly disappointed that the magic of Apple pouring their billions into this didn’t give us any better outcome than the multi-fingered junk that’s been going around the Net for a while.
But more, I don’t get how software can screw up this bad. I’m a career software engineer. What is the algorithm that creates people? Doesn’t it model people in some way, kind of like 3-D animation/rendering software? With rules about how to articulate elbows, general proportions, and little details like, ya know, HOW MANY FINGERS to generate on each hand??
Like, how does this happen?? Does the software have trouble counting to 5?? Or does it have a +/-1 degree of freedom when assembling phalanges? And for goodness’ sake, why don’t both hands match?? I’ve never seen a genmoji with 3 eyes or 2 mouths…
So, sorry Sam Altman, I’m not feelin’ it. I’d be really embarassed to put software like this out. But if I got paid that much, I probably wouldn’t care either :-)