Senior Project Advisor
Nabil Kamel
Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Keywords
AI, Utopia, Nostalgic, Futuristic
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to take a cursory look into understanding how good “utopian” urban form is interpreted by AI. The importance of this study is that AI is now being used in every facet of society. Some examples of this include using AI to find cures for diseases (Heaven, 2023), integrating with geography to create digital-twins that control traffic lights (Digital-Twin, n.d.), and fabrication of news and profiles on social media (Mishra, 2024). All this exposure to AI feeds into people's expectations and desires for an ideal world- aka for a utopia. Some current examples of how this is occurring include the Downtown Circle in Dubai, The Line in Saudi Arabia, Telosa in the USA, and Dogen City in Japan. These projects all incorporated renderings done in part with AI image generation software. The methodology of this study included first a selection of software for generating an image using AI. A variety of AI image generation software was assessed before playground.ai was selected. Then a variety of futuristic and nostalgic thinking utopian literature was reviewed to distill criteria to be instructed to the playground.ai model. The clarified criteria were then fed to the AI model in three different variations, birds-eye view, streets-eye view, and night life view. The images were scored from zero to two on how well they met the criteria, with a total perfect score being 10. The findings from this study found that AI image generation models do better with clear, simple, and short prompts.
Department
Environmental Studies
Recommended Citation
Pysher, Madeline, "Evaluating How Well Open-Source AI Models Interpret Written Prompts" (2024). WWU Honors College Senior Projects. 806.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/806
Type
Text
Rights
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf