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  1. threethirtytwo · · focus · HN ↗
    I find it unlikely that there's any direct training data for this. I'm talking about direct training data for using brush strokes like humans to construct an image.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but this shows that painting capability is emergent, arising from unrelated training data thus very very compelling evidence that LLMs are actually intelligent.

    1. hdjrudni · · focus · HN ↗
      It could have been fed videos of people painting.

      Connecting it's capabilities to simulating the recreation of such paintings... that's I suppose interesting. But adding brush strokes to produce an image is probably well covered by video footage in its training data. e.g. all the Bob Ross videos in existence.

      1. threethirtytwo · · focus · HN ↗
        The transformation of pixel video data to actual brush strokes is not trivial.

        For example I can watch all bob Ross videos 300 times and never paint a thing and this action would not teach me how to paint.

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