Even though I was glued to "Tomorrow's World" as a kid, I don't think I could imagine back then in the 70s what we have to play with today. I just played with Dall E 2 (managed to get 2 pieces done before running out of the free credits - check out my substack for the results). Here's the link to Dall E 2: https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2. To create my images I uploaded an image (famous painting) and cropped it to a square in Dall E. I then added to the painting, one block at a time. Basically, you add a block (making sure you have overlap of the original image so it understands the style to copy) and then give it a text prompt i.e. UFOs from the sky, or more sky, or alien etc.. using my example.
I went to one of the new comprehensive schools in the 70s. Looking back, although I had my issues, I got to work with some good teachers. In the science department at my school we have 4 PhDs. Can you imagine a state school in England like that today? Anyway, we had a computer where you fed it punch cards. Quite a few kids got into computing that way.
I have yet to play with dall-e-2. I went to a show and tell at my nephew's high school a couple of weeks ago. Several of the students there were on top of this AI stuff. One was doing some very interesting art work with dall-e-2.
The picture on my posts was done with some AI software from text input. No idea which one now, and don't want to spend a lot of time looking through my browser history to find out. Most of what it produced with my experiments was crap, but I like the one here.
The husband of a niece is a programmer. One of the shops he does work for is using AI to write code. I tried this for a few days, but I used JAVA as a target language, which I don't really know. I did a program in it 8 or 9 years ago, in an aborted attempt to learn it. I got a program up and running to permute music notation symbols into a measure of possibilities for beats in a given meter. However, there were certain changes I wanted to incorporate, and could not understand the paradigm well enough to code them.
Chet (ChatGPT) does produce code, but a lot will not run out of the box, and I am not interested enough to learn the language to the depth required to debug its productions. Still, wait a year or so ...
Very interesting, Mike.
Even though I was glued to "Tomorrow's World" as a kid, I don't think I could imagine back then in the 70s what we have to play with today. I just played with Dall E 2 (managed to get 2 pieces done before running out of the free credits - check out my substack for the results). Here's the link to Dall E 2: https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2. To create my images I uploaded an image (famous painting) and cropped it to a square in Dall E. I then added to the painting, one block at a time. Basically, you add a block (making sure you have overlap of the original image so it understands the style to copy) and then give it a text prompt i.e. UFOs from the sky, or more sky, or alien etc.. using my example.
I went to one of the new comprehensive schools in the 70s. Looking back, although I had my issues, I got to work with some good teachers. In the science department at my school we have 4 PhDs. Can you imagine a state school in England like that today? Anyway, we had a computer where you fed it punch cards. Quite a few kids got into computing that way.
I have yet to play with dall-e-2. I went to a show and tell at my nephew's high school a couple of weeks ago. Several of the students there were on top of this AI stuff. One was doing some very interesting art work with dall-e-2.
The picture on my posts was done with some AI software from text input. No idea which one now, and don't want to spend a lot of time looking through my browser history to find out. Most of what it produced with my experiments was crap, but I like the one here.
The husband of a niece is a programmer. One of the shops he does work for is using AI to write code. I tried this for a few days, but I used JAVA as a target language, which I don't really know. I did a program in it 8 or 9 years ago, in an aborted attempt to learn it. I got a program up and running to permute music notation symbols into a measure of possibilities for beats in a given meter. However, there were certain changes I wanted to incorporate, and could not understand the paradigm well enough to code them.
Chet (ChatGPT) does produce code, but a lot will not run out of the box, and I am not interested enough to learn the language to the depth required to debug its productions. Still, wait a year or so ...