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Language as a Cognitive Tool: Dall-E, Humans and Vygotskian RL Agents – Developmental Systems, a Blog of the Flowers Lab

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Developmental Systems, a Blog of the Flowers Lab

Have you heard about DALL-E? Beyond the funny mashup between Pixar’s robot and the surrealist painter, Dall-E is OpenAI’s new transformer trained to compose images from text descriptions [ DALL-E ]. Most people agree, DALL-E’s ability to blend concepts into natural images is remarkable; it often composes just like you would. Look at these avocado-chairs: Output from OpenAI’s Dall-E model when prompted by: "an armchair in the shape of an avocado” [Dall-E] If it’s so impressive, it’s because this type of composition feels like a very special human ability. How would it know? The ability to compo

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