Behold, a man! - ChatGPT
a wonderful picture? u mean a list of colors and a columns count?
Isn't that all digital photography anyway?
lfox02
joined 3 weeks ago
The best part is that I've actually gotten some answers from my subconscious this way
The joke is a cross between a famous anecdote about Diogenes and the inner workings of vision-capable AI models.
Diogenes really liked to disrespect his social superiors, so when, in a lecture, Plato defined human beings as "featherless bipeds", Diogenes plucked a chicken and presented it to him saying "Behold - Plato's human being" (or something along those lines, the quote is slightly different in every source).
In order to "see" things from images and video, a garden variety LLM needs to integrate with another model that analyzes the picture it is given and gives a text description (source: HuggingFace). What I'm getting at is that, based on that idea of stripping things of context, ChatGPT could probably confidently tell you something in the vein of Plato taking the piss due to its inherently limited ability to see.