{"id":792,"date":"2024-07-06T01:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2024-07-06T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:45:07","slug":"todays-llm-challenge-create-a-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Today’s LLM Challenge: Create a diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ask an LLM to create a technical diagram and they’ll use a diffusion generator, which produces funny but mostly nonsensical results. But they tend to be pretty good at writing code, so I thought I’d see how they can do with the following prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Describe a diagram suitable for a textbook that illustrates the definition of “cross-sectional area”. Then create SVG code to render that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The description is easy, so I’m only going to show the SVG images they produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ChatGPT 4o<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Gemini Advanced (prodded to keep trying…)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Perplexity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Bing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Bing also volunteered four diffusion images, first of trees like this:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then I asked it to try again using a simple cylinder and got these cool but not usable results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The smaller models available through HuggingChat were worse, and Cohere didn’t even get the SVG namespace into the XML. Here’s what I got from the top three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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