Aiden is perhaps misinformed. From a Bing search performed just now.
> Yes, I am familiar with the "pelican riding a bicycle" SVG generation test. It is a benchmark for evaluating the ability of AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal systems, to generate original, high-quality SVG vector graphics based on a deliberately unusual and complex prompt. The benchmark was popularized by Simon Willison, who selected the prompt because:
Whatever you think Jimmc414's _concerns_ are (they merely state a possibility) Simon enumerates a number of concerns in the linked article, and then addresses those. So I'm not sure why you think this is so.
Not sure if I'd use the same descriptions so pointedly, but I can see what they mean.
It's perfectly fine to link for convenience, but it does feel a little disrespectful/SEO-y to not 'continue the conversation'. A summary in the very least, how exactly it pertains. Sell us.
In a sense, link-dropping [alone] is saying: "go read this and establish my rhetorical/social position, I'm done here"
Imagine meeting an author/producer/whatever you liked. You'd want to talk about their work, how they created it, the impact it had, and so on. Now imagine if they did that... or if they waved their hand vaguely at a catalog.
Hi Simon! Love your work! Our of curiosity - how many pelican-cycling samples do you produce. Curious about the variance here. Thanks!
I've lost count, but there are 85 posts with that tag here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
I need to extract them all into a formal collection.
I think the parent poster might be asking about generations per model-test. Atleast that's what I understood.
A coffee-table book? A Natural History of SVG Pelicans
Aiden is perhaps misinformed. From a Bing search performed just now.
> Yes, I am familiar with the "pelican riding a bicycle" SVG generation test. It is a benchmark for evaluating the ability of AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal systems, to generate original, high-quality SVG vector graphics based on a deliberately unusual and complex prompt. The benchmark was popularized by Simon Willison, who selected the prompt because:
Web search-based RAG is very different from having something embedded in a model's training data, though.
ChatGPT website gives a similar answer. Are they running RAG, or the model?
> Yes — I’m familiar with the “pelican riding a bicycle” SVG generation test.
> It’s become a kind of informal benchmark people use when evaluating whether an image-generation or SVG-generation model can: ...
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Whatever you think Jimmc414's _concerns_ are (they merely state a possibility) Simon enumerates a number of concerns in the linked article, and then addresses those. So I'm not sure why you think this is so.
It's a pattern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725190
Condescending and disrespectful to whom? Everybody wholsale? This doesnt seem reasonable? Please elaborate.
Not sure if I'd use the same descriptions so pointedly, but I can see what they mean.
It's perfectly fine to link for convenience, but it does feel a little disrespectful/SEO-y to not 'continue the conversation'. A summary in the very least, how exactly it pertains. Sell us.
In a sense, link-dropping [alone] is saying: "go read this and establish my rhetorical/social position, I'm done here"
Imagine meeting an author/producer/whatever you liked. You'd want to talk about their work, how they created it, the impact it had, and so on. Now imagine if they did that... or if they waved their hand vaguely at a catalog.
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No, when did I say that?
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