Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

https://buttondown.email/urbababble/archive/theyre-nearly-there-except-for-all-the-hard-stuff/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/18/motorist-fined-number-plate-t-shirt

lol. great way to prank yer mates car.

PSA for anyone who might be dealing with robot gun dogs, from a farm robot specialist who wasn't really looking at robot wrangling from the public safety standpoint but here we are. https://t.co/PhQSmEnzOn

— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) October 17, 2021

https://delphi.allenai.org/

oops and https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/

Bit obsessed with the art generator at https://app.wombo.art
https://i.imgur.com/64nlkVF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GNfnlBl.jpg

Had a go at recreating/inventing some old masters:

https://i.imgur.com/vjtnxUc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BLLQeot.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FKXUyw2.jpg

Oh, that's great stuff.

I would totally get this edition of Moby-Dick
https://i.imgur.com/95mCQMc.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/a/kz90wF0.jpeg

https://i.ibb.co/ggjRP07/Screenshot-20211207-112450-org-mozilla-fenix.jpg

fyi you can get an ilx postable link when you upload from the dots in the top right -> get share links -> bbcode (forums)

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/48519cb2-b130-4cdf-8243-a8bc05c53346/blank_tradingcard.jpg

xpost instructions are for imgur, i should have said.

"Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness" + dark fantasy = Endless array of great death metal covers. They tend to look like old Incantation albums.

hokusai's follow up to 'the great wave' - 'miserable pissy rain' (this was with the ukiyo-e filter)

https://i.imgur.com/9NQ5LOu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I6AI5PP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZcInSAE.jpg

Ha, I was whiling away some time inputting ilx thread titles on this the other day!

https://i.imgur.com/mJuYJhj.jpg

https://app.wombo.art/card/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d

That "pencil drawing of Paul Weller" one is majestic.

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d/blank_tradingcard.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAWGXQXQ6WCOB7PP5J&Signature=CkASKAO%2BtW6SVvKk%2F%2F0AbnRfa9U%3D&Expires=1638896728

^SPIT IN MY MOUTH --Cardi B, zoomers

'On a White Couch'
https://i.imgur.com/aRHnv0d.jpg

Here are some classic Jim'll Paint It suggestions rendered in Wombo pic.twitter.com/ClwYp7UJc8

— Jim (@Jimllpaintit) December 7, 2021

http://app.wombo.art/card/f7cd3bc4-c52b-4d39-b1ab-895831c76d84

I'd say this Wombo thingie merits its own thread, similarly to Transformer, where we can all display our best/worst results. Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations.

https://app.wombo.art/card/b50ab818-1549-41e6-8c98-c1289e0bad07

I was hoping that would post as a picture, but apparently I don't know how to do that.

That cthulhu thing is amazing.

Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations dead links.

https://www.instructables.com/The-AI-Label-Maker/

(in short, a pi-powered box that examines and object and prints out a label for it. a plate of biscuits gets labelled 'cell phone', a polka dot mug gets 'the window is open'...)

Image generation leveled up again, already.

GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
abs: https://t.co/G74t97S1jH

Samples from a 3.5B parameter text-conditional diffusion model using classifier free guidance are favored by human evaluators to those from DALL-E pic.twitter.com/gjSYl4cnAd

— AK (@ak92501) December 21, 2021

That looks hard-to-believe good

jesus christ

still has some way to go i'd say

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/y1RspNRUzy

— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) February 6, 2022

makes you think

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088140809/fake-linkedin-profiles

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there

i think i might be a blot

AI Andy to thread!

so dan i. mentioned dall-e already in this thread, but anyway, it's back...with a vengeance and called dall-e 2

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

the short of it is it's basically going to take over as a photoshop plugin and graphic/web design source. it's very good at generating "art", however you define it

dall-e 2 illustrations of my friends' twitter bios

— Nick (@nickcammarata) April 7, 2022

looks just good enough to resemble the great bulk of commercial art, while having no spark of personality. iow, a perfect photoshop plug-in.

it does make a lot of sense for commercial art, for two reasons: 1) if you can either fool the average person/consumer most of the time, or if they don't really care about the art in the first place, then 2) the company will decide to generate free commercial art rather than deal with art burnouts and paying them

but i don't know, i watched Her about 3 too many times

xp Aimless!

one can imagine a really positive use case for people, making a living and stuff, where they can easily use it to generate a starting point and then modify it from there, using it as source material, as punster said. but at some point, the manager is going to ask if maybe the graphic artist could first generate 20 different generated sources, so the manager can pick from one of those 20 as a starting point for the artist. and then, in the medium-hell world, the artist still gets to take the manager's selection and modify it from there, making it into a true human/AI commercial art collaboration. however, shortly after that, the company must cut costs in order to have a strong Q4. maybe the manager can just cut the artist out of the process, generate 200 AI "starting points" to select from, pick one that looks decent enough, and then add the human touch by uploading it as an attachment to the template. meanwhile, the commercial artist is in the poison bog

maybe the manager can just cut the artist out of the process, generate 200 AI "starting points" to select from, pick one that looks decent enough, and then add the human touch by uploading it as an attachment to the template. meanwhile, the commercial artist is in the poison bog

This is an important part that people overlook: generating these images (or AI-generated text) will be as fast as loading up various instagram filters: that *INSTANTANEOUS* ability to generate 200 "starting-points" makes it a really powerful, destabilizing tool