Pelican Riding a Bicycle
An informal benchmark used by Simon Willison since 2024 to compare the drawing abilities of large models. It asks a model to generate an SVG vector image of a pelican riding a bicycle, testing the model's ability to understand and combine animal anatomy, mechanical structures and spatial relationships.
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In communities around AI-generated content, "a pelican riding a bicycle" has become an informal test case for probing generative video models' ability to understand absurd combinations.
The "pelican riding a bicycle" test can simultaneously examine a generative video model's compositional generalization, object interaction understanding, and temporal consistency.
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In communities around AI-generated content, "a pelican riding a bicycle" has become an informal test case for probing generative video models' ability to understand absurd combinations.
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