As my readers surely know, generative AI continues to make impressive/frightening strides. Chatbots pass the Turing test with flying colors. AI-generated images, music, and videos have eerie detail and depth, providing new aesthetic possibilities as well as easy tools for propaganda and harrassment. AI can animate your old family photos, or add detail that was never there. It can generate a realistic podcast based on any document you give it. Massive data centers are springing up to handle the surging demand, boosting our electricity consumption to alarming levels. And the AI future has barely begun.
Yet there is one thing AI can't generate ... at least not yet.
This is "typewritten text" according to Midjourney:
Meta AI gives it a shot:
Several image generators provided by Nightcafe don't do any better. This one is atmospheric and eye-catching, but that's not typewritten text:
As for this one, uh ... what?
Artificial "intelligence" is everything but intelligent. xD
ReplyDeleteHah! But that first midjourney image is impressive! With the paint-loss it shows that most typewriter images it's taken as input for the collage, were of worn machines. (Oh, and it would only be able to write "re ist" ;-)
ReplyDeleteThese hungry 'AI-engines' really are the Laputan engine, as imagined in 1726.
I had to look that up. Thank you, Jonathan Swift! His idea also anticipates Borges' Library of Babel. But I believe (vaguely) that generative AI deals more in probabilities than in randomness.
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