The best web gems are ones you find while looking for something else. While following some links on AI data sets I fell into Source.Plus PD12M “a highly aesthetic image-text dataset with novel governance mechanisms.” At 12.4 million image-caption pairs, PD12M is the largest public domain image-text dataset to date, with sufficient size to train […]
Countless are the posts of people showing off the “coolest” AI thing, using Google’s NotebookLLM to generate a chatty podcast of your uploaded book, blog post, paper, shopping list. Woah. Wow. You click and listen hearing a male and female voice banter back and forth in conversational tone. Neato, you are so onto this AI […]
After so many years of taking/making photography, from an undergraduate photography class at the University of Delaware, to a darkroom in my grad school apartment, to first digital photos with an Apple Quicktake, on through DSLRs, and the alluring capability of an iPhone 13, I’ve been firm on representing the world I see. Even if […]
Claims of technical death are always overrated, but in the hell mell rush and glee for the synthetic cartoon garish sadly robotic “style” of generative AI imagery I for one remain thrilled by the small acts of thanks. These acts are “generated” from the closing in (if I can catch up on the backlog) of […]
In several conversations I hear my own brain echoes of responses to AI mania of both fatigue and hype wariness but also some curiosity and itches to explore. My own reckoning I reckon is the comparisons to the disruptive force of the early web was we were not clubbed over the head with the web […]
There you go, a deliberately vague blog post title that give no real indication what this is about. Heck, at this point, 1.5 sentences in, I am questioning myself if I know. Note: I found this post hanging out in my Drafts. Was it left undone? Did I change my mind on publishing? I don’t […]
It’s so tempting to do. You write something or give a talk/presentation about AI and a few paragraphs/minutes in, you pull out the Big Reveal that what you read/said was generated by ChatGPT. “Woah” swoons the crowd (did not see that one coming, eh?) It’s basically this old trick (stay to the end to see […]
So you have decided to join in and write some kind of post, article, thought piece about Artificial Intelligence. Of course you have something to add to the pile. And in a flash of brilliance, you turn to one of a kazillion AI Image Generators (according to Google, 1 kazillion = 959,000,000) and you toss […]
I’ve tried to shedding much attention on OpenAI CEO drama. But after hearing whiffs of vapor about some Q star thing and the Amazon rolls out some other AI hooplah named… Q there is only one recourse. Mocking. That’s right, I haken back to my childhood adoration of the original James Bond flicks (I am […]
Quote/unquote hallucinations, questionable use of copyrighted materials in training, exploitations of labor, environmental impact, complete lack of transparency, we should recognize the litany of problems with the 2023 AI Hype machinery. The natural desire is, what if I can have an AI that is deriving it’s responses from purely MY stuff or from a specific […]
