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Shoutout to the AI that used to mess up my kid's science homework pictures
About a year ago, my son needed a diagram of a plant cell for a project. I tried one of those free AI image generators, and it gave us a green blob with random circles labeled 'mitochondria' floating outside the cell wall. It was useless. I tried again last week for a volcano diagram, and the thing spit out a perfect cross-section with layers of rock, a magma chamber, even little ash clouds. The detail was crazy. It went from kindergarten scribble to textbook quality in under twelve months. I know they're training these models on better data, but the jump in just one year is wild. Has anyone else had a moment where an AI tool just suddenly got way more accurate at something specific?
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reese_nelson1mo agoTop Commenter
My friend's architecture firm tried AI for concept sketches last spring and got melted buildings. They ran the same prompts last month and got fully rendered facades with correct window spacing. The training data must have swallowed entire CAD libraries. It's not just pictures, it's learning proper structure.
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karen_roberts41mo ago
Yeah, it's not just more data. They're getting way better at understanding what we actually mean, not just matching words to pictures. Like what reese_nelson said about the buildings, it's learning the rules behind things now.
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