Tip of the hat to Pat Kane for pointing me towards having fun with the Lensa app, with the photo above being one of the milder expressions of interpreting the 20 selfies I uploaded to the app so it could render them into artwork. I very rarely make “in-app” purchases but happily paid a small amount yesterday and waited 90 minutes or so for it to render 50 images for me to choose from.
When I was a student in Edinburgh in the mid-1980s, Edinburgh University had an Artificial Intelligence department way back then, which morphed over time into the amazing Informatics Forum.
In more recent times, we have all become aware of the amounts being invested in AI and that it is being applied behind the scenes more and more and impacting our daily lives, even if we are not necessarily very aware of specifics.
I, therefore, love this new app as a clear way in which massive amounts of data can be crunched and results shown visually.
Now, this one is visually cool, but another very recent release is ChatGPT, where you can make a request of the AI engine, often with remarkable results. Following this on Twitter there are some highly knowledgeable people seeing that what OpenAI has created here is the beginning of an exponential curve in machine learning.
A basic example from me playing with it, just for fun!
