I have noticed that when working with #GenerativeAI text-to-image generators like #GencraftAI, #Midjourney or #DALLE3, user prompts that are intended to create robot #innovations often result in creations that have a 'military air' to them (or that at least don't look very friendly). Sometimes, even if you specify to the AI to create something that looks 'cute' and that is family-friendly, it still struggles to generate what you'd call cute or family-friendly.
This exercise was supposed to re-imagine a street-cleaning robot, but I think most people will agree that it looks more like a war machine?! Even the backdrop is a desert...??! (I didn't include any desert reference whatsoever, or insinuate to such as being part of the scenery!?)
So what's going on?
Why is the #AI interpreting anything to do with a robot as being tough-looking and menacing in appearance?
Also, what about all the robot companies out there which claim to be making 'family-friendly' robots(some of their robots are definitely what you would call cute)? Aren't their devices part of the knowledge pool from which these generative AI models are being trained/ "gaining inspiration"??
If they are not, therein lies another problem. So, we are training these things on ...'selective data'. And that probably means they're carrying around lots of biases (or at least 'incomplete' / context-deficient 'stories'), many of those biases we don't even know they carry them. And then we'd like these things to one day be able to cook for us, adjudicate on court cases on our behalf, drive us around, and ...autonomously perform surgery? 🤔
Or has this preference for menacing-looking things got something to do with all the 'military-esque' robots Boston Dynamics has been putting out?
Maybe there's a disproportionate number of scary robots in all of the images and literature about robots that are available on the internet? Leading each AI (the ones mentioned above are all different) to translate prompts about robots as more likely than not to be ...scary
#generativeai #robotics #military #Sanrixa #AI #futureleadership
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