How much does AI know about understanding and producing graphs? This article describes an experiment where I give a graph to Claude 3 Haiku and ask the following questions:
- Can AI correctly interpret the information that is shown in graphs of different types?
- Does it understand the variety of types of charts and the uses in communication for which they are well-suited or fail?
- Given the image a graph and the data, how well can AI reconstruct the graph using software?
- Can it take one attempt at creating a graph, accept criticism, and produce something better able to answer a given design goal?