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Anyone got a class full of students and able to get a human version of this pelican benchmark?

Perhaps half with a web browser to view the results, and half working blind with the numbers alone?

I highly doubt that any human could manually write a pelican SVG in a single shot like LLMs do. With a lot of guessing and checking of coordinate positions in the web browser, maybe they could do it.

I imagine that you could theoretically also guess and check without the web browser by manually rendering the SVG using some graph paper, a compass, a straightedge, and coloured pencils, but that sounds unbelievably tedious and also very error-prone.

If a human was capable of doing it blind I’d be absolutely blown away. Many can’t even draw a bicycle from memory[0].

0: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/can-draw-bikes-memory-definite...

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