Comment by bgun
1 year ago
I agree. My example for something “AI” should be able to do is to create a CAD model for the Empire State Building or the Parthenon based on known facts and photos.
I don’t think these are “moving the goalposts” examples, they are things that an actual intelligence capable of passing a PhD physics exam should be able to do.
I mean, I passed a physics PhD exam and I can’t model the Empire State Building. The jury is still out on whether I’m an intelligence tho.
My point is that you could, given enough time and all the information available to you online about these well-documented buildings. You could learn CAD and figure out a reasonable way to output a 3D model, because you can think and reason spatially. The current batch of AI tools can regurgitate complex facts, but they can't actually think in 3D like an being that spends its life navigating physical spaces.
Maybe I'm wrong and we are well on our way to AI tools for this, but right now if I tell any of the current generation of image models to do something like "rotate object 70 degrees, tilt camera down 20 degrees and re-render" then what comes out is never even approximately close.