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Crochet Amigurumi Pattern

 Black Box: This project is about using black-boxed artificial intelligence to assist in creating an artwork or design artifact. Black box software is software where the internal functionality is not known, which is the case with most commercially available software that is not open source. There are also many pre-trained machine learning models that are also black-boxed because the end users/researchers do not have access to the training data. The goal of the project is to offload some key aspect(s) of the decision-making process to a piece of software that you do not understand or have control over.

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For my black box project, I asked ChatGPT to generate a crochet amigurumi pattern for a small teddy bear. I did some additional prompt engineering after doing some research on others’ attempts, but decided to just implement the initial response to my request. It is clear that the algorithm still does not understand the intricacies of crochet patterns and can only guess at sizing. It is also understandably difficult for ChatGPT to understand what the end product is, as patterns are encoded in abbreviations. My attempt was reasonably successful, but anything more complicated would have ended in disaster.

By

Madeline Zhang

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