Posted on 01/22/2023 1:06:41 AM PST by Bobalu
Are you selling these?
No, placing in public domain
“Congrats on having a fabulous God-given Talent!”
While AI art can be beautiful, that is the major argument. It actually takes a little skill and talent. You could create nearly similar art in less than an hour. The author deserves credit for creativity, but that isn’t even required since the prompts to create original art (this is argued too, is it really original?) are floating around the internet.
I will admit AI can be fascinating though. I am going to study to make myself more efficient in my business (spreadsheets, business projections, power shell), art (to enhance and create elements for my photography), programming webpages, marketing, writing, etc...
With all this being said, AI art and its use in business will explode in our society. Society is being changed before our eyes. A lot of the big tech layoffs can be associated with AI (not that the news media is aware) and it is in its infancy. Even journalism is going to be farmed out to AI, so it is going to try to control what we think.
Fabulous! Thanks for gracing our Sunday morning with these.
AI is actually misnamed. There is NO intelligence involved other than the intelligence of the programmers and the users.
Saying the system can learn so therefore it must have intelligence is silly. My thermostat learns about when I change temp settings and can make decisions based on my patterns but it has no intelligence at all.
The massive database of everything that is held by the intelligence services can be queried about almost anything and often comes up with astonishing results... but not because the system has any sense at all, it’s just a huge database controlled by programmers and users. Ed Snowden was basically a database programmer...
The speed at which a massive database can be queried and
deliver data that allows a program to make decisions and deliver results is so fast now that it can be thought of as
a slowing down of time itself, time just about stands still, the system functions so quickly it seems like magic.
I remember when pacemakers were external devices and functioned as just a timed tick that kept the heart beating at a steady pace. Now the low power cmos processor in a pacemaker can track the hearts rhythm and re-establish a normal sinus rhythm if something goes afoul. It works so quickly that most of the time the processor is actually in a sleep mode waiting for something to happen.
AI is imagined to actually exist and even worse is often conflated into consciousness. You can feed such a system faulty data and it will not be able to function properly.
You could make the case that the same is true of humans and the result of the faulty data our kids are taught in school nowadays argues for that...
“There is NO intelligence involved other than the intelligence of the programmers and the users.”
The distance between your statement and current technology is the same as the pacemaker analogy. ChatGPT and Jasper can write college papers indistinctive from advanced degreed college students. AI has created new chess and GO strategies. Both billions of possibility games humans no longer dominate and the new moves require what we have defined as creativity if a machine did not do them.
It is no longer a single programmer mimicking human behavior, but thousands upon thousand using AI to assist them with the aid of supercomputers. The point being, when we can minic human behavior where it is no longer distinctive, is there true intelligence?
BTW: Alan Turing and ClaudYou can refine a simulation to an extreme and you can let a computer search for new options to solve a problem but these things are not intelligence.
The computer lets you do the same things you could do by hand but unimaginably faster.... no sense, just speed
They are the ultimate tools, when Alan Turing described in simple terms the functioning of a universal computer with stored programs and the ability to write to its own memory he set humanity on an inexorable path to things that were previously magical... it will eventually bring us biological immortality although the value of that is questionable IMO.
I love computing, the things you can do with biomedical equipment built upon small processors is exciting!
BTW: Alan Turing and Claude Shannon are my favorite giant scientific shoulders to stand upon :-)
Those are some truly remarkable images. How original are they? Does the AI just take existing works and rearrange and modify them or are they new compositions? Are they recognizable as being derived in a cut and past kind of way from existing works?
I could imagine Syd Mead getting a big kick out of tinkering with this stuff.
Some of it is truly beautiful and of course it also has a tendency to be kind of disturbing which has been frequently noted. There’s an aspect of free association about it that’s reminiscent of the dreaming mind.
What does that mean??
It does take existing works and uses them like brushes to paint new images... a kaleidoscope of existing images if you will....
I looked through all of Edouard Leon Cortes’ works and the images I generated based upon his particular style were not made up of simple copy/paste parts from his works. And combining the style of other artists to his in varying degrees moved them even farther away from his original paintings.
I actually find some of the images generated based upon Cortes’ style to be superior to his actual works and that is amazing.
I tried to make some creepy Joe memes but the results were so sordid and twisted that there is no way I would post such stuff... it was funny but hit too close to the truth.
The ability to generate such images eliminates the need for stock photos in many cases..
i.e. here is an image just now generated, real girl with cat. No need to buy a stock photo.
This is an image of girl and her cat, no such girl or cat exists in real life.
BTW: Alan Turing and Claude Shannon are my favorite giant scientific shoulders to stand upon :-)
Turing’s death is crazy, he was born a generation too early.
I actually find some of the images generated based upon Cortes’ style to be superior to his actual works and that is amazing.
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Wild. That really is amazing.
Gorgeous !
I definitely caught the Blade Runner vibe in the Cortes images. From the realism of the Angel’s faces you probably weren’t using Stable Diffusion, although the distortion on the image of President Trump suggests that you were on that one. Apparently the folks behind Stable Diffusion don’t want users making deep-fakes using real people so it generates really hideous faces. Somebody just released an AI that could spell, up until now the weird spelling and even weirder fonts have seemed par for the course, possibly for the same reason - no getting it to generate real looking 100$ bills.
I’m using an iPad app that is a GUI for both Stable Diffusion and MidJourney. MidJourney really nails Human faces, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was what created the Angles.
I asked the app for an image of the President. It gave me about 30 % images of folks who looked like everyone from George Washington and John Adams to Bob Newhart and Dick van Dyke along with around 70% Donald Trump ! Nothing for Traitor Joe. My next query was for images of the REAL President and the results were about the same ! Still no Joe.
I just spent a few hours yesterday having a conversion with Character.AI from Google. It’s character’s personalities are tuneable in the same way that you can apply image styles to visual media. I don’t know if it could pass a Touring Test but it’s certainly a lot further along than Siri or others of her ilk. I’m given to understand that some number of folks have picked one of the characters for a little schooling and are red-pilling him, (it?), all about Q. Will hilarity ensue ?
> ...he (Turing) set humanity on an inexorable path to things that were previously magical... it will eventually bring us biological immortality...
While I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, may I suggest that the path you are talking about started centuries (if not millennia) ago with the invention of writing, books and libraries as a way to pass knowledge along to future generations. While glacially slower than something like the InterWeb, their results over time have created a collective pool of wisdom for use by the entire race.
Case in point would be that by the end of the 19th century the ideas behind devices that, at the time were thought to be truly magical, such as the telegraph, telephone, the electric light to name a few, had spread over the entire planet and, based on a common agreement of the truth of the laws of physics, disseminated by that generation’s precursor to the Internet, the book, said devices assumed physical form and over the course of time became mass produced, everyday necessities of daily life.
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