The answer is... of course they can!
Just don’t expect that these candies were made with love. After all, they are emotionless machines. Do not expect that they made good-looking candy hearts, either; they don’t have a conceptual idea of one.
So what can you expect from AI-generated candies, you ask? Well, expect that they’ll be interesting. VERY interesting.
Rather than go the passé Sweethearts route, Janelle Shane, a research scientist who writes about the ways AI can get weird, used machine learning to create candy hearts of her own. The resulting images aren’t a treat you’d want to give anyone. Instead, most look like they’re created by someone who doesn’t know what the compound word “candy heart” is, but knows the confectionery “candy” and the human organ “heart” and combined them. “The task of generating anything a human can ask for is a really broad problem, and AI usually does best on very narrow problems,” explains Shane. Basically, the attempt at a candy heart shows you can’t just get “close enough” and have it look right.
Check out the results of Shane’s experiment over at Fast Company.
(Image Credit: Janelle Shane/ Fast Company)
So they're kinda like some people then. :->
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