@kate it does CAMERAS???

and fucking. SHUTTER SPEEDS?????

@nowionlywantatriumph it’s a genuinely remarkable achievement

@kate the only thing it seems like it CAN'T do is text

AND EVEN THEN, SOMETIMES IT CAN: https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1532160674968834049

@nowionlywantatriumph the fact that it spits out mostly lexically valid syllables while still being nonsense is going to be gold for people making fictional advertisements and the like

@kate yeah! and that's how you can tell the model WASN'T actually trained to understand language: it's probably just going "well these shapes are together a lot so let's put them in something like that order" and not, "oh this is an 'E' and that's a 'T' and there needs to be an 'A' between them to spell 'Seattle' right"

any time it makes actual real words are by pure happenstance