I tried out chatGPT 4o to create the R ggplot2 code for a professional color chart
ChatGPT had serious problems to recognize even the grid fields while it was impossible to get the right colors or any order after more than a dozen attempts (I created the above chart in less than 15m).
At the end, chatGPT ended with something like a bad copy of Gerhard Richters “4900 Colours”…
Why was this task so difficult?
Although labeled as generative, AI is not generative in a linguistic sense that
… aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models of humans’ subconscious grammatical knowledge
I would like to call it better imitating AI. ChatGPT never got the idea of a professional color chart for optimizing color workflow from camera to print).
It was also lacking any aesthetics. Although the Richter squares are arranged randomly, they form a luminous grid pattern with overwhelming kaleidoscopic color fields.
A less academic version – it is the biggest copyright infringement ever since Kim Dotcom.
TBC