Foodcourtification: Journeys into the artificial world
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Is Kristianvadur a Small, Danish (Scandinavian) Coastal Town? Dall-e2 Believes so
Inventive AI-scholar Kris Kashtanova suggested on Twitter her followers to prompt their names to an image generator and observe what the AI suggested. She got many replies with various uses of names. Often the followers real or invented given names, or their Twitter-handle names. It is a fascinating thread including different image generators. I prompted…
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When Should You Stop an Escalator? The Woman who Fell with her Bike
On my way home from the drugstore, I, as usual, went through the railway station to cross the tracks. On the second floor of the station, there is a combined waiting area and walkway over the station’s platforms. Traffic was light at this time of day, so I swiftly passed the waiting area and entered…
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AI and Humanity are Hallucinating Together: Restrictions and Creativity
In the previous post, it was briefly mentioned that restrictions have an important role on creativity. Restrictions somehow sharpens creativity. In the evolving world of AI prompt engineering, this relation can clearly be seen that fine tuning prompts, indeed, makes more original or creative outcomes when using Microsoft’s Image Creator. In this specific case for…
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Reconstructing a GPT chat about a conversation between Jordan B Peterson and Brian Roemmele
What can occur in half a second? That’s the average reaction time for a human to respond to external changes. For a computer AI, this same 500-millisecond timeframe can be perceived as almost infinite. Within that seemingly short span, a computer can make numerous predictions about what a human might do after these 500 milliseconds…
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Talking with Chat YouTube
Chat YouTube is an excellent tool to discuss and investigate any YouTube video you like. I chose to chat with this informative video about new video tool by Matt Wolfe. It takes a couple of seconds for Chat YouTube to read the video’s transcript and then it is ready for some casual chatting: I prompted:…
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How soon will generative AI be able to write and properly understand text?
The development of generative image AI:s is breathtaking. Only a year go the first models showed fascinating achievements, but in May 2023 with e.g. Midjourney 5.1, it is sometimes impossible (for a non-photographer as I) to tell whether a photograph i authentic or AI-made. One frontier that still remains is that image generators have had…
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What does Foodcourtification mean? Let’s ask DALL-E 2
The word Foodcourtification seemed to have a reasonable meaning around 2015. A world pointing into a future of fake variety in the sense that different features share a common but hidden origin. In 2023, the year of generative AI, the word can mean something totally different. We promted Dalle-E 2 with the simple word “Foodcourtification”…
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Priests and their church
After decades, I recently had the opportunity to revisit the church of my baptism. I was invited by a priest named Per, whom I’d met a week earlier in another part of the Scania region. He mentioned that he worked there and that I could visit when he was at the church once a week.…
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Football Player Heading the Ball Over the Goal keeper
Playing around with Chat GPT 4 is still amazing, but the first days and weeks of discovery had their speciel sense of exploration into something unreal. One exercise consisted of letting Chat GTP write a summary of a ficticious match between two leading Swedish football teams, Malmö FF and IFK Göteborg. The final result and…
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Walkthrough from porcelain prompt to article and book
In the previous post we could read how it is possible to command Chat GPT 4 to take various roles and manage these roles to make the process of writing a blog post about e.g. the history of porcelain manufacturing much better compared with a sole prompt to the AI to write a blog post…
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Chat GPT-4 writes porcelain history
Alexander Leirvåg published a twitter thread about an advanced form for prompting Chat GPT to work as a group with a team manager and team members assembled by the manager. Thus, Chat GPT outsourced tasks to roles which was controled by itself as the team manager. Leirvåg used as a showcace a collaboration to write…