This is really weird. The AI stuff is weird, but also, this zoo is local to me, and it’s weird that somewhere just up the road a bit is making national news because of this. I’ve fed their giraffes many times; I haven’t been there since the spotless one was born, though.
lol, the giraffes coat is strange because it is wearing a coat.
While this might seem unusual or unexpected, this is common practice in the case of giraffes raised in captivity.
We don’t have true AI yet (if ever). This is more like veneer on a particle board cupboard. Veneer Intelligence.
There’s plenty of AI systems out there and has been for decades. What you’re probably talking about is AGI (artificial general intelligence)
I tried the same experiment with Bard, same results. It only recognized the correct coat when asked directly if it’s spotless.
A control experiment would make this far stronger.
The LLM isn’t the issue here. It’s generating coherent speech well enough.
The problem is that there is no mechanism for identifying odd or out of place items in the stimuli fed to the model. This mechanism (separate from the LLM) would be placed between the CNN (image recognizer) and the LLM (text generator). What typically happens is the CNN recognizes subjects and items in an image and passes the list along to the LLM which generates a description. Since the LLM doesn’t actually have access to the original image, you can’t ask it to look for unusual things the CNN did not provide it.
The result is not surprising. People just don’t know how these models work and so assume they can do anything.
