It behooves one when blogging something controversial to include different views. AI nay-sayers have been called Luddites. Luddites were people acting against new technology which was ruining their livelihood, forcing many into dire poverty – see Industrial Revolution. Luddites would destroy the machines. On the other […]
This is one of my favourite stories about AI. Yes, as it develops, AI has many times proven its drawbacks, failure and limitations. This story on the other hand shows that clever thinking, using AI straightforwardly to enhance food production can have unexpectedly impactful results on […]
New software arrives in the expanding AI image-production environment. This in-depth review covers Flux software – “State-of-the-Art Text to Video for all” – by Black Forest Labs. As well as being open for everyone, the most broadly appealing aspects are that it will run on average […]
One of the more established uses of AI is producing music from other music. There are many terms for this, but the word most used to label these creative endeavours is Mashup. Mashup culture is well established, and after many years of development it can be […]
We all know the well-known sayings ‘pinch punch first day of the month’ and ‘white rabbits, white rabbits’ – or do we? They are said to bring people luck if you say them on the first day of the month before midday, but where did they […]
This is a fascinating, long, in-depth article which is worth making into a PDF (and/or buying the book) and reading several times to absorb the many interesting points made by Mr Harari. Here are some excerpts that might not leave you alone: AI is an unprecedented […]
Reading about how AI and TikTok bots were behind the UK street violence this week, I found this, the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI). Their self-description: “Our pan-university institute brings together Surrey’s core AI-related expertise in vision, speech and signal processing, computer science, and […]
Before the days that chatopenai.com worked pretty well, it used to sometimes fail. Going through the more spectacular failures which I kept for the record, I found some writing I was working on which illustrates the painful processes of1. prompting accurately and in detail, and 2. […]
AI at its most creative is exemplified by Ian George aka Scannerian. Ian has been been using drones to create high detail 3D and 4D representations of the world – see ScannerIan.com and he is melding his scanning skills born of years of practice with Generative […]