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This does not seem like a very impressive result. It's using such a small set of bricks and the results don't really look much like the intended thing.

It feels like a hand-crafted algorithm would get a much better result.

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But I think the cool part here isn't photorealism, it's the combo of language understanding and physical buildability

The (fake) texturing is the only thing making it somewhat work. As normal colored bricks it would just be lumps of lego.

What we need is an AI where you feed it some photos of your pile of bricks and it generates you instructions based on the bricks you have.

(Totally feasible with today's technology, but you'll need to train your own specialized models.)

https://au.lifehacker.com/toys-board-games/50948/news/scan-y...

What I'd be interested in most is a robot that can assemble a model from a pile of bricks/parts.

There already exists an app that will, from photos of your pile, pick out models you can make from a large library of existing models. Though IIRC that has been around long enough that it isn't quite using what people are currently calling AI (instead using older ML techniques for brick identification, and a basic DB search to pick out the valid plans for the resulting list of bricks).

Already exists, put out by LEGO https://brickit.app/

My experience with that is that it gives you unbelievably simplistic builds, not the complicated things you might be imagining.

this is very cool considering it is a fine-tuned 1B model

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