I’m fascinated by how the AI models get better extremely fast once they are exposed to a few thousand users frantically working at them.
Since I am a paid member, I have a “guest invite” – if one of you would like an invite, private message me on the FTB Discord. You’ll need Discord because that’s the interface to the AI.
“The last stand of the Kusunoki Clan”
This turns out to be interesting in terms of what it reveals about inner knowledge in the AI. The leader of the Kusunoki clan knew he and his men were doomed, but went out to battle anyway, because that is what samurai did. Before they left they prayed at a temple and Kusunoki Masatsura took an arrowhead and scratched into the door, “I will not return, I suppose / so I will remain with those / dead with bows” [Tried to get that from memory. Let me fact-check myself:]
I could not return, I presume,
So I will keep my name
Among those who are dead with bows.
The AI did all the stuff above including the fake characters in the form of a samurai. So fascinating!
What are we being invited to do with this AI, exactly?
@Raging Bee: maybe you could get it into a suicide loop like Spock does on Star Trek. Or you could experiment with having it make you pictures.
I’ve been relying on Voltaire’s cure, so I had the AI draw me an illustration of Voltaire drinking lemonade while studying Newton.
Hmm. I remember in the 90s the standard advice for getting (more) useful search results was to always specify “-pamela anderson” as a search term.
Perhaps you need to specify “and none of that freaky dali-esque shit”?
(PS: Marvin’s induced suicide loop was much better.)
(PPS: Being of an age, they actually look quite similar in some portraits, but that generated picture looks a little bit more like Newton than Volataire, at least to me. Which questions its understanding of the request as posed. With a bit of a cross with the disfigured version of Palpatine.)
The resemblance to Newton has me wondering if it effectively parsed that more as “(Voltaire drinking lemonade) & (Newton, studying)” and fused the concepts.
It comes up with some interesting compositions, but I am puzzled by the tiny woman in a towel that seems to be emerging from the lemonade.
Do AI’s read Candide?
Once again, it has gotten very confused by hands, and rendered them as a nightmarish fusion of insectoid limbs and a book.
You are looking at Lemon Maid.
Ah, of course that must be the Lemon Maid of Orleans, rising from her lemony abode to inspire the poet.
Making the same mistakes:
Notre-Dame cathedral rising from the ashes, slated to reopen in 2024
They are rebuilding with the same materials, and expecting different results.
Reginald They are rebuilding with the same materials, and expecting different results.
Well, the previous roof timbers were 400 years old.
I hope they can mitigate the human error that caused it to burn in the first place, and the new timber lasts another 400 years. The French agency that protects ancient buildings are sticklers for using the same materials in any renovation of historic listed structures. Can you imagine having to source wattle and daub or find a contractor to replace a thatch roof?
They could have given it a new roof of aluminum, glass, and stainless steel. I have no idea why they wanted to go with wood. Wood was the option when the building was originally roofed, but if aluminum and glass were available in 1300 they’d have used that.
Besides – designing autonomous sponge-wielding sucker-drones hauling windex, would be a fun challenge.
Now that Paris is full of toxic lead, maybe they’ll go with a stainless steel top instead of the 1/2″ thick lead sheets of the original. I used to stand there on the upper walkway and just look at that sea of lead… It was and will be always an amazing building. Shame it was built in honor of bullshit.
The French agency that protects ancient buildings are sticklers for using the same materials in any renovation of historic listed structures.
The un-legacy of Viollet Le Duc. When I was a kid my parents taught me how to tell badly restored architectural features from originals. Spotting the hackwork was a fun game. [Imagine if Disney renovated the White House and you’ll have a pretty good idea of the overall effect]
Offtopic: is anyone else slightly worried that this is the last post from stderr? You OK mjr?
I’ve been wondering the same as you, sonofrojblake. Hope everything is well on the farm and foundry.
Same, here’s hoping everything is going well and that we’ll be hearing something soon.
Yup, I’m ok. I’ve not been feeling inspired to write so I’ve been working on other projects. Reclaiming the time has really helped me take a chunk out of my “todo queue”
Good to hear.
Marcus
Wouldn’t that create a lightning rod issue? I haven’t seen anything about what they plan to use to roof the new roof trusses. I had no idea that lead roofs were even a thing until I discovered all the French chateau renovation programs on British TV. Slate roofs with lead flashings can last for several hundred years assuming the timber stays free of woodworms and damp.
I have a great deal of admiration for hand-built stone Chateaus, and hand-built timber frame structures.
It’s annoying to repair them sometimes, but they were built to a completely different and much higher standard than modern homes. My house dates from 1904, and takes many of its architectural details from a typical French manor. Steep high roof, big windows, with lots of attention to symmetry.