Evelyn Day 63
It is Thursday, the last delivery day for me this week, and 18 May 2023.
Sometimes I’ll take a few minutes and read the front page on my web browser or take a quick look at social media, and this morning I noticed a friend had posted an interesting meme. If I can get it here, I’ll post it at the end.
We’re developing AI and robots now. The question posed by my friend is this – we’re training our AI services to create artwork, and write content. In science fiction, we dreamed that robots would be doing mundane work, dangerous jobs, the manual labor positions. The whole goal of using machines was to have them do the hard work so that we, the humans, could create art and poetry while the robots took care of the day-to-day maintenance and service.
I’ll admit – I like the AI-created pictures. I am working on my prompt-writing skills, and more people should. Heck, I’m looking for a class on it. I want to learn how to write a sophisticated prompt so an AI can best render my vision.
There’s an old expression – “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Well, in the world of DALL-E and Midjourney, a thousand words can paint a pretty interesting picture when those words are processed by artificial intelligence.
I’ve been fooling around with different AI prompts, having the AI create topographical maps (needs work), small snippets of Python code (exceptional!), and chord progressions. The AI engine will not win any awards for originality, and the Grammy Awards won’t have a category for best Country Song written by an AI service… for now.
It will be interesting to observe the evolution of this new phase. I argue that in a few years, there will be folks who have full-time jobs writing good AI prompts.
Maybe we need an AI to help us write AI prompts?
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
