James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one.”
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This article made me think of the current state of knitting and crochet patterns; many unwary crafters have found themselves purchasing AI-generated instructions that are completely nonsensical, with accompanying images of plausible-looking but impossible objects. At best, a carefully-guided neural network can reproduce something basic and functional. I'm not surprised that you would get similar results in woodworking.
Wonderful piece with a wonderful pullquote
"real intelligence resides not in an ability to extract and dominate, but in the capacity to share, co-exist, and thrive together"
"This benchmarking has a deeper meaning as well. Carving a broad arrow into a church wall doesn’t reduce or isolate anything. Rather, it reminds us that every action is made in context; each benchmark refers to every other one, in a continuous, connected line through space and time."
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