May 28, 2026
I love this sort of stuff. To me it’s a very creative thing, sort of like a design metaphor.
You have two distinct objects - butterfly and jumper - and then some expression of one in terms of another, which just fits.
Dear AI researchers - please make an eval for this. Why can’t an AI think symbolically in the visual domain? (maybe using something like DreamCoder?)
The one example I can think of why this is interesting - the old Macbook genuinely used to breathe. It had a sleeping indicator LED that faded in and out at a rate similar to the human heartrate. A beautiful design metaphor. Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything.
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liamzebedee.com — original article