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In the demo I put the obama prank photo http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio... and asked "Why is this picture funny?" and it responded "Question: Why is this picture funny? Answer: President Obama is taller than the average person."

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Tbh I’m not sure why the pic is funny. And I am human

Luckily the article explains it right below the caption ;-)

he's stepping on the scale making the guy seem heavier than he is

Furthermore the man on the scale is faced the other way and wouldn’t know someone is stepping on the scale. There’s an element of theory of mind there. You would have to understand that the man on the scale is unaware of Obama’s action.

The article points this out and several things we all instantly recognize.

Thanks. I was looking at the picture on my phone and it was difficult to see what was going on in the picture.

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That’s because it’s very posed so it’s not that funny.

But you understand why people might find it funny, and what people in the image are thinking, you have a mental model of them. That's the point.

Is it something to do with the idiom of putting a thumb on the scale, meaning using your power to influence the outcome of something?

Has this one fared better with other image prompt models? It’s a great little challenge, I’m curious for a follow up!

What's the GPT-4 answer to why that picture is funny?

> @karpathy: We tried and it solves it :O. The vision capability is very strong but I still didn't believe it could be true. The waters are muddied some by a fear that my original post (or derivative work there of) is part of the training set. More on it later.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1635697741925064704

Is there a More on it?

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