@BBC_News_Labs

@leo, @jeffjarvis

As old newshounds, I thought you would like this (except I think Jeff has blocked me)

#TWiT #TWIThosts #TNW @mikahsargent (who is not an old newshound yet)

@jasonhowell

This #aihorde setup, and the people involved, might make a good interview for "the untitled AI show".

It is geekily complex, but not daunting, and gives easy access to a lot of resources

https://aihorde.net/
https://tinybots.net/artbot
etc.
@db0

#AI #TWIThosts @leo

Ok, I have burned through $36 on Stable Diffusion this weekend, and ended up with few good images.

So that's me done with #StableDiffusion.

#AI #AIart @jasonhowell @leo #TWIThosts.

I remain annoyed that neither Bing nor SD solicit feedback on the images you get.

my investigation of image generating AI continues. This one is going to be a longish thread.

It occured to me that, computer code aside, the most structured image descriptions I know arethe description of heraldry, from the college of heralds.

So, I found this description for a heraldic shield, and used that for a prompt, which did not work well.

Then I asked Bing Chat to translate it into something Bing Image Creator would understand.

#AI #AIart #Heraldry
@jasonhowell #TWIThosts

@rcade @bookstodon

@ant_pruitt #TWIThosts - do you know anyone?

I don't think the Bing Image Generator has a sense of proportion. When I said "very large ears" I ment the upper range for a human...

"A member of the british royal family, with very large ears, wearing a long cloak and carrying a staff. Standing next to a lake in Wales"

It's a bit hazy on counting hands as well.

#AI #AIart #Wales #Characters #Ears #Wales
#TWIThosts
@jasonhowell @leo

I think that Bing Image Creator fell down badly here:
"A sheer mountain face in Wales, fitted with the sort of hand-holds normally found on indoor climbing walls"

0/10 for handholds. Maybe 5/10 for mountains?

#AI #AIart #TWIThosts #Wales #DALLe

This looks interesting

https://www.newscientist.com/tours/mysteries-universe-jodrell

But it's just shy of £1k for a weekend. That seems expensive to me. What do you reckon?

@leo #TWiS #TWIThosts #astronomy #radioastronomy #science #lectures

Today's "beat the AI" test.

"A stained laboratory tabletop, housing a variety of laboratory glassware, in chrome plated stands. the most prominent of the glass vessels contains a medieval style lecture theatre, populated by senior academics in formal robes, cap and gown. they are unaware of theier containment. Oilpainting In the style of Joseph Wright of Derby"

1/10, I reckon.

#AI #AIart #DALLe
@leo #TWIThosts

This is well written. Recommended.

https://unherd.com/2023/06/welcome-to-the-17th-century/

@leo @glennf #TWIThosts

Another trial of DALL-e . This one is the least unsuccesful I have done so far.

So here is the prompt: "A garden shed constructed completely out of old council house doors assembled side by side, and still painted in the original colours, with the original frosted glass window pane in the upper half. The shed is standing on a grassy surface, and there is a hedge behind it. A small park bench is nearby to provide seating."

#AI #AIart #DALLe #gardenshed #colours #TWIThosts @leo

@ant_pruitt

On the general subject of #photography, I have been following this Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/consuela.ionitoae.9

Specimen: the Cathedral of Sienna

@leo #TWIThosts

@thurrott @leo #TWIThosts

Paul has soft-ranted recently about the plethora of update methods in W11.

Today my machine updated before starting, so I went to look at the current update state - only to find that there is more to come. In 3 different ways.

What the blue blistering blazes is an "Update Stack Package"???

@leo @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @ant_pruitt #TWiTHosts

Experimenting with a Mastodon client called Elk (https://elk.cupoftea.social/cupoftea.social/public/local) and have signed into the web version with my twit.social identity.

I really like the interface, and will be trying the app when I am not actually at work!

You know how people are panicing about #GenerativeAi putting artists out of work?

I just fed this prompt to #Microsoft "Image creator" and the results bear little resemblence to what I asked for

"A fabric covered biplane airliner the size of an airbus380, with twelve engine nacelles along the wings which lokk like those from a Vickers Vimy bomber. The struts and windows to have a gothic feel, and two cockpit windows, one above the other."

#TWIThosts @leo #Dall-E #Imagination

@thurrott @richcampbell #Twithosts

Text of today's submission to the #FeedbackHub on #Windows11

"You keep doing this, and it is appallingly sloppy.

This machine just updated, and I wanted to know why. According to windows update it installed "Update Stack Package (Version 1023.322.402.0)"
Wozzat?

So I click on "learn more" and it opens https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023331

Which is 404."

#TIL today:
A #Macaronic poem is written in more than one language.

Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motor_Bus

#Language #Poetry #Vocabulary #TWIThosts

Thorough and very interesting piece on licences and attribution requirements for Generative AI

We don't hear enough about this

https://indieauthormagazine.com/using-ai-images-legally-what-you-need-to-know/

#AI #generativeAI #TWIThosts #TNE #CreativeCommons

@jeffjarvis @mmasnick @mikah

@leo @alexlindsay @ihnatko @jsnell #TWiTHosts #MacBreakWeekly

Google News fed me this, which looks like rubbish. What is the motivation here, do you suppose?

https://www.gizchina.com/2023/04/04/apple-discontinued-its-m2-chip-due-to-poor-macbook-sales/

#AI #LLM @leo @thurrott #TWIThosts @gigastacey

Experimenting with #Google #Bard & #Microsoft #BingChat

Asked them both the same question.
"What is the effect of PWM waveforms from variable speed drives on motor insulation"

Answers too long for Mastodon, so have a look here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XXpnHzT_Bp5vlIuusR6PHqSBSP2R4A_Dg2DnKpGUoDw/edit?usp=drivesdk

For a proper answer, see here:
https://www.gambica.org.uk/resourceLibrary/motor-insulation-voltage-stresses-under-pwm-inverter-operation-pdf.html

Conclusion: they both "understood" the question. Bard tried slightly better to answer. Both were trivial in what they said.