AppleTV’s AI sniffs the Superman The Movie DVD (normal), checks its back-end lookup (normal) and describes it thusly:
That, indeed, would be an unexpected mash-up: Superman meets Lord of the Rings.
Month: May 2022
Once More Unto the Breach
Okay, perhaps a bit more dramatic than the comparison with combat and battle than was invoked in Shakespeare’s Henry V.
How about this:
Second verse//Same as the first
I missed out on two weeks of lab time way back at the end of Gen-A, six terms ago, when my wife had Covid. Way back before vaccines were available for it. I had to remain away from the campus to prevent spread and missed out on some critically important lab time because of it.
Fast-forward to now, and I finally have all of my lab time and projects complete and even have time caught up on the Airframe time that I needed to tend do.
So, great news, I’m all caught up.
But sometimes it’s two steps forward and one step back.
We’ve had four people out with a positive Covid tests in our rather small group of 14 — no idea about the 1st year students (about 30) or the other half of the 2nd year (about another 15). The three that were out are, to my understanding, planning on being back tomorrow.
But the administration has shut down our campus for a week.
So, we’ll be back next Thursday. We’ll have the shared frustration of all trying to get bare minimums on time needed to finish this last four weeks of the program.
No, wait… minus a week.
Last three… three weeks of the program.
Sense of Touch and Timing Technique
There’s a reason these are only $11 and semi-disposable.
Why?
Because if they were any more “sturdy”, then you’d be replacing a $2,000 magneto… or, minimally, that magneto’s $400 distributor assembly.
Sure, you’re going to tear it down and inspect it… **sigh** again… but it’s better to replace that $11 tool than the more expensive parts.
AI Creates Imaginary Art…
At some point, I should see about exploring some AI development concepts on the compute power that I already have readily available at home. But, until then, and until I actually have the inertia to explore the concept much deeper, there’s some freely-available NightCafe AI studio.
We begin by asking it to come up with an idea based upon a word or a concept: a river.
How’d it do?
Ask it for a river, and it renders something that looks rather like a river:
Perhaps a setting for a pivotal scene involving Aragorn and Boromir.
Right, so what if we ask the AI to render something a bit more complex? Perhaps a river full of fish?
Now it starts getting a bit interesting. Using a cyberpunk style, it creates a river, with fish — leaping? floating? flying?
Eh, could evolve that a bit more.
I rather like the cyberpunk interpretation offered by the AI, so let’s ask it again…
We’ll just ask it for the same thing again…
What if we drop the determiner, ‘a’?
Okay, now let’s ask it for something somewhat implausible — not really a thing: a river full of sleep
Certainly as vivid as one may expect a river to be during sleep. But let’s do it again…
Yep, that’s enough AI exploration for one day.
May the Forth Be With You
Just wanted to post that.
Also, I should make it a point to watch that sometime when I have the chance.
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