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I did these using various tools but I don’t really have any talent for art at all... that’s the amazing thing about this.

I decided I needed some new hobbies to take my mind off the coming apocalypse so I chose art and music.

I got an art tablet and a bunch of software and started plugging away... I also got a banjo, yup, an actual banjo..
I’m practicing every day but boy do I stink at the banjo!...lol

As soon as I can score an NVIDIA 4090ti graphics card I will start up with Unreal Engine 5... I have a few ideas for games.

Remember that no matter how silly you look you can look even sillier by just picking up a banjo...

And there’s no fool like an old fool with a banjo...

I’m an embedded system guy and so I bought an extra, identical banjo to experiment on... I’m designing a simple
device to automate the banjo without altering it in any permanent way. In this endeavor I have discerned that the key to this is the bridge so I worked up 3D files for a device to attach to the adjustment rods in the banjo just
beneath the bridge. If you 3D print a new bridge and embed tiny neodymium magnets in the bridge you can control its
vibration using a cheap ARM mcu without physically touching it.

Normally the strings vibrate the bridge which vibrates the banjo’s drum head to produce audio compression waves but manipulating the bridge by other means also works. You can
dampen or brighten the sound for instance or adjust the sustain and decay rates as well as simply add a bass accompaniment. You can control the functioning of the device
by signalling it with a short selection of notes or have it
watch for a particular section of a tune and alter the parameters when that point is reached.

Keeping track of the sounds playing on the banjo requires just simple Fourier transform routines.

I may be able to use a cheap ESP32 in place of the ARM and that would have the odd benefit of enabling the banjo to be on the internet and also control a bluetooth speaker system.

“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.