What it demonstrates is that genAI is getting ever more powerful at emitting stuff that looks like other stuff, but the uncanny valley is deepening with each step, where now the Coyote has run off the edge of the void cliff, but isn't yet falling because he hasn't yet realized he's run off the edge.

On this forum, I routinely see the question "So what is AI doing that's real work"? The answer can't be "passing the otter test...", can it?!

When the writeup claims "I would have been very happy if this paper was the outcome of a 2nd year PhD project" my heart sinks and how meaningless doctoral work must be to say this without irony.

By the way, that harbor town model is not "beautiful" unless you think that any image with a color scheme of complementary gradients is beautiful.

As to the observation that this appliance will be great for making Powerpoint presentations...

(Zzzz --Huh? Oh is the presentation over? let's go to the pub!)