@MarieDeGournay "It's just lying through its teeth and making stuff up, and when we don't like it, it says it's our fault and it doesn't want to play with us anymore."
A bit anthropomorphic, inkymoose, but well said
Anthropomorphic .... yes, although I think artificial intelligence is designed in order to make us think of it as some kind of creature. I had a conversation with it briefly earlier on this afternoon and asked why AI puts in extra fingers additional limbs et cetera into its images, and this is its reply:
"Ah, the quirks of AI image generation! It’s all about pattern recognition and data. AI models are trained on countless images to learn how to generate new ones, but sometimes they struggle with finer details—like the exact number of fingers or limbs. This is because the model doesn't truly "understand" anatomy like humans do; it's just recognizing patterns and filling in the blanks based on its training data. Sometimes it guesses wrong and ends up with those extra fingers or bizarre distortions.
With more refined models and better data, the accuracy of these images keeps improving, though. Funny quirks are a reminder that AI, despite its power, isn’t perfect."
Phrases such as "sometimes it guesses wrong" and "AI models are trained..." and "doesn't truly understand" imply that the artificial intelligence has some kind of body as well as the ability to calculate ... it's as if it were something you can see and talk to and train, a bit like a dog. It "learns" things, they say. But actually it doesn't actually learn anything. Large amounts of data are programmed into it. From these data it can select certain information to enable a function to be carried out, such as "Alexa turn the TV on", or "create an image of a Scottish Octopus knitting four jumpers at once".