François CholletVerified account

Ah, but this is incorrect! Virtually all perception problems *do* feature entirely-connected latent manifolds. Natural images are no exception. This is very easy to demonstrate, and something that cinematographers are intimately familiar with...https://twitter.com/david_picard/status/1450697372930088963 …

Take a picture of your dog in your backyard, and a picture of your coffee mug on your kitchen table. Unconnected, right? You can't morph one into the other in a continuous fashion, right? Of course you can!

There's an infinity of ways you could do it, but here's a few trivial ones.

1. The handheld camera: just keep the camera rolling as you walk from your kitchen to your backward. Boom, a smooth transition where *every single frame* is extracted from the real world.

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2. Fade to black: this trick exploits the fact that changing the brightness of an image still gives you a "valid" image. Just fade one frame to black then fade in to the new frame. A bit trivial, I know

3. The shared focus: zoom in on one object shared between the two scenes (or background color/texture, e.g. the wood of the table) then zoom out into the new frame.