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You’ve probably all seen AI generated images by now. There are quite a few videos on how this works, but simply put, an AI is trained on billions of images from the internet, and you can make it draw what you want from a simple text input.
But is this type if image generation of any practical use to us, besides generating art or funny pictures to laugh at?
I’m using Stable Diffusion for this project, which is open source, and you can try it for free – and I’ll put the links in the description. For the actual images in this video I used the dreamstudio.ai website, which is the same algorithm but much faster. You get some free credit, but after that it was about $10 for 1000 image generations.
I’ve been thinking about building something in real life that the AI draws for a little while, and I posted some of the previous results on my Twitter and Instagram. I started with ‘human making machine’ and ‘dog washing machine’, but the first results were too weird, and I don’t own a dog.
I also tried inputting words around practical things that could be useful like ‘Machine that helps humans make food’, and ‘domestic robot’. Most of the machines it drew just look like something from a factory, and the robots all look pretty generic. I guess that’s what all the source images were like it was trained on for those sorts of machines and robots though.
After some more experimentation I found that the phrase ‘experimental robotics equipment’ came up with some absolutely fantastic looking stuff, although it was hard to determine what the machines would actually do if I tried to build one.
So using that phrase combined with other things I got some more interesting looking project ideas.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
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34 Comments
What would you like to see me build next that AI designed?
The marching song of the AI vacumms
“The music of the future is now.”
I love how humans ignor the warnings from Intelectual people about the danger AI posseses. 14 programers in japan were excecuted by weapons by AI robots who were fitted out, fully armed and programed to defend. 3 bots were disarmed and the 4th linked up to satelite rebooted its self and killed another 3 programers. So lets just hope they only keep killing programers, hey!
So AI noticing that white males are the ones who are good at robotics is now "societies crime"
good grief
I wish all children's toys would only support pentatonic scales and octaves. If you're going to mash on buttons, they should at least be tolerable to listen to.
Polar Bear Centaur on a paddle board.
I just love how even the music is exactly like what I imagine AI music to be: Right in the uncanny valley where it is almost music, but isn't. Just like the images when you try to make faces.
Truly Bonkers, wonderful.
Ummm… It remarkably resembles King Crimson albums o.o
AI: gonna make him play the balls
AI is racist…..hahahaha
Top 100 clicked on video titles of 2023 predicting it now
Good to know that James will not experience Roko's Basilisk because of this.
Like an Alien Instrument, sounds and looks outa this world!
You need to make a robot where all of the parts are articulated tessellations..
AI must think humans have 6 fingers @ 3:24 the Thumbus is in the picture.
I think this was the most "robotic" thing I see on my life, It could be in a scifi movie where steampunk robot play music xD
looks like something out of the movie Meet the Hollowheads
I didn't like your weird obsession over skin color, but otherwise that's a cool idea. Great vid
You didn't create what the ai gave you, the ai predicted what you would make.
"Mid level celebrities"!? That's the queen of shitty robots!
AI as a cure for writer's block.
Imagine if you sent midi into it and motors made the robot dance by moving the arms to the positions needed to play the notes.
Would by popular witch kids
Nice concpte
Very fum tanks for the video
AI finally figured out how to destroy humanity…with cuteness. Hail AI Overlords.
Midjourney just came out with a version 4 beta last week, IMO it looks better than Dalle 2 and stable diffusion, you should check it out. You have to manually activate version 4 in the settings though because they haven’t made it the default yet.
FUTURE
Tsk tsk tsk… pronouncing it lever instead of lever.
i'm the only one expecting a wild electronic drop?
I can't stop listening it! I need more likes!
10 years from now James will follow the same prompt, but the AI will be sentient and playing a trick to try to get a physical body to take over the world 😅
Coolest vid ever I've always want to make a new instrument some thing outta star trek