Should a computer system which does not understand be described as intellegent?

 

Gary Marcus from Marcus on AI produces an excellent newsletter which has been consideri0ng recent AI graphic and video demonstrations and looking at their limitations. The above picture is from an AI generated video of a monkey playing chess.

Before continuing take a good look at the picture and decide what aspects of the picture shows a lack of understanding by the AI which drew it.

1. The chess men are well drawn  and the monkey looks realistic in the still (and even more realistic in the original video) - except  that the monkey's hand only has three fingers.
2. At a quick glance the pieces appear to be on a chess board - until you count the squares and find that the board is 7*7 rather than 8*8 so is not a legal chess board.
3. One might allow that the monkey does not know how to place the pieces correctly on the board - and in a valid position that there must alway be two kings on the board.  However the picture show three king (two white !!!! and one black) and only one is on the board
4. The monkey appear to be holding a small piece (could be a rook) , in its hand.  The problem is that pawns are the smallest chess pieces and the piece in its hand should a least be as big, if not larger, than a pawn.

So how well did you do in spotting the problems the are there others I ha ve not mentioned?

Marcus's excellent newsletter has included some other good examples . Theis a computer venerated image od an old man (with an extra finger on this had) and his arm round the neck of a unicorn - with the horn of the union coming out of the man's head. Another example should a group of pupils playing therewith the number mysteriously changing with time. The ant in a passage in an ant's nest looks go a t a glance - but a more careful look shows that the ant has only four legs.

Gary is particularly concerned that if children and teachers us computer images to teach, for instance about wild life, the last this we need a convincing looking packages which don't understand the real world nature of the images  they are generating.

Because I have aphantasia, and and not good at visualising images in my "Mind's Eye" I an using AU images to illustrate this blog - but I also find images which I have to reject as unsuitable - See the post "AI generated Images" on this blog