You Can Now Use LegoGPT to Turn Your Text Inputs Into Lego Designs
Ever wanted to take your Lego building game to the next level? A team of computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University built LegoGPT, the first AI model that takes text inputs and turns them into physically stable Lego designs.
Instead of using an AI generator that will churn out a potentially wacky design to fit the request you input, LegoGPT's designs abide by the laws of physics.
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According to the team's research, which can be found on GitHub, the AI model was trained on a dataset of over 47,000 Lego structures with 28,000 unique 3D objects. The designs generated with LegoGPT were physically stable 98% of the time.
The tool is free to access on GitHub. You can start by uploading pictures of your existing blocks to determine which building options you have.
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