AI learnt "something" from the Physical & Life Sciences Forum.

[Hans Blaster]

I think a major weakness in AI is in evaluating images.
In another thread ( Further evaluation of windmills contributing to the Greenhouse effect as being pseudoscience. ), GPT-4o badly failed a fluid mechanics exam when the paper was scanned and inputted as an image file; by comparison it passed with flying colours when the exam was inputted directly as a message.

Taking this into consideration I decided to give GPT-4o my BASIC program of the generation of the graph r = cos(4θ) and as the challenge to see if it could translate the BASIC program into Python and make sense of the resultant image.

Here is the BASIC program and image output.

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BASIC, we haven't seen that language 'round these parts in nigh on a generation. The graphics elements must be some sort of customization of a particular vendor that is unfamiliar to me.

Here is GPT-4o's translation into Python and image output.

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Sigh once again so near and yet so far, I have no idea why GPT-4o has incorporated orthogonal axes and what the values on these axes are supposed to mean.

It clearly fails to recognize the your pixel coordinates are just that and not something important.

It also flipped the 90 and 270 degrees labels indicating the graph is based on the polar equation r = cos(-4θ) instead of r = cos(4θ).

That's super weird.

 

[sjastro]

BASIC, we haven't seen that language 'round these parts in nigh on a generation. The graphics elements must be some sort of customization of a particular vendor that is unfamiliar to me.

The version I used is downloaded 'Just Basic'.

That's super weird.

GPT-4o in fact picked up a typo in my BASIC code.

Don't know how a '-1' slipped in which I didn't detect but GPT-4o being the ultimate literalist correctly interpreted the -1 factor as flipping the Y-axis when translating the command into Python.

The harsh reality is my BASIC code has incorrectly labelled the Y-axis and not GPT-4o as originally claimed.

 

[sjastro]

ChatGPT-OI is the latest version put out by OpenAI and has had rave reviews.
Here it reproduces the computer code of an astrophysicist's research paper on black holes in an hour which took the lowly human ten months to complete.
The guy's reaction is priceless.