Trained on Fake Worlds

This model never saw a photo of a mug, only computer-made ones. Tidy made-up worlds leave it lost; strange ones teach it to find the real thing.

Turn the dial to choose how strange its training worlds were. Each stop is a separate model, tested on the same real photos.

What it learned from: computer-made mugs

What it was tested on: real photos

traced by handthe model’s guess

Real photographs of mugs, each with a glowing outline where a model thinks the mug is.