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A single panel comic with a malformed, slightly damaged, yet freshly built home in the background. In the foreground, a man in a hard hat and a reflective vest is speaking to another man, presumably the buyer, saying, “It’s called vibe construction. I’m not even a contractor! Pretty soon all buildings will be made this way.”

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Floor plans are one of the best ways of exposing the limitations of AI.

    AI knows patterns, it knows X is found next to Y. It knows that the label X tends to go with furniture that looks like Z. But, it doesn’t know why for anything. It can’t even ask the question Y. It’s just a pattern matching and generating machine.

    So, it doesn’t understand the purpose of a door, or a hallway, or a bathroom. It won’t tend to put the laundry machines in the living room because that’s not a pattern it has seen, but it’s not because it understands why that might not be ideal.

    It’s actually the same with software, it has just been trained on a lot more software, so it is better able to make something that blends in and looks correct at first glance.