AI – The growth is amazing!

I’ve been looking at the technology of AI’s over the past couple of years and I am amazed at how quickly they have grown and become publicly aware in the past few months. I came across this AI today – ‘BedtimeStoryAI‘ from AI developers in Sweden.

What does it do? Well, exactly what’s on the Can!

I tell my Grandchildren various stories during the school/club runs that we do together during the week, and this theme (see below) has run through one of those stories over a period of a few months. So I thought I would try this in the AI and see what was produced.

How did it do?, I’ll leave that to you to decide. But it is unnerving how good it was and potentially how it will improve.

Here’s the short outline of text I put in from my memory off the basic story line. I’m no author, by the way!!

The three children and their mother rushed through the orange door into a fantastic world of ice blue skies filled with marshmallow clouds and pink grass that looked just like candy floss. Mummy! shouted Poppy; look, it’s a Giraffe flying through the air. Sidney was not amused, he wanted to her first to tell her. Phillip the youngest, did not even look up, he was more interested in the pebbles that covered the path in front of them; or were they pebbles?

And here is what the AI produced in less than 90 seconds!

The Fantastic World of Mummy’s Three Children: Poppy Sees a Flying Giraffe and Phil Collects Pebbles

Poppy and her siblings, Sidney and Phil, were running around their house when they suddenly noticed a door that wasn’t there before. It was an orange door with a sign above it that said ‘Fantastic World.’

Poppy, Sidney, and Phil stared in amazement at the mysterious orange door with a sign above it that read "Fantastic World". in a painting from stalenhag, 8 k, hdr, artstation, concept art

“Mummy, look!” Poppy cried out in excitement. “We should go through the door! Please let us go through!” She pleaded with their mother, who instantly saw the amazement in all three of her children’s eyes.

“I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to take a look,” the mother said in reply. “Hold onto my hands and do not let go.”

The children complied and together they stepped through the door. As they did, their eyes widened in shock and awe as they saw a world blanketed in ice blue skies with marshmallow clouds and pink grass that looked like candy floss everywhere.

“Mummy!” Poppy shouted out loud, pointing towards the sky. “Look! It’s a giraffe flying through the air!”

Sidney sneered at Poppy’s enthusiasm, wanting to be the one to find something first instead of Poppy having all of the fun.

Phil, however, was not even paying attention since he was too interested in the small pebbles that littered the path that was laid out before them now that they had stepped through the door. He wondered if it were really pebbles or something else entirely

“Come on now,” Their mother said in an excited voice,”Let’s explore this new fantastic world.”

“Poppy can you show us around?” She asked her eldest child as she held onto Phil’s hand guiding him closer to his siblings while keeping an eye on them all at once too.

“Yes Mummy!” Poppy answered quickly as she ran ahead and started pointing out all the interesting creatures and sights around her brother’s and sister’s eyes widened further with each new discovery they made together at this amazing world just beyond their orange door!

End of the generated text.

Stunning is one word I would use, what is even more amazing is the image, conjured up out of nowhere simply by the AI analysing the text!

There is no doubt that AI is here to stay and will only grow exponentially in its usage over the coming years across all sectors of society, and at the same asking lots of serious questions about it use.

Now, I think I’ll write a book using AI!!!!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Good or Bad?

AI has been very much in the news recently and its use (or potential use) seems to be increasing at breakneck speed.

There are plenty of serious discussion points about the subject on the web. However, with any newly emerging technology, many are based around how much money can be made from AI.

One such example is the announcement by Open AI, the people that bought us ChatGPT are now looking to raise an eye watering investment capital of $30 billion ! I personally don’t think they will have any trouble finding that as the world scurries along the AI discovery path.

That said, there are numerous voices that have raised concerns about many aspects of AI, such as the ethics behind its use. Let’s ask OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help understand more by asking it to write something about AI and ethics.

Example of interaction with ChatGPT – About 2 seconds for the response to appear!

Could I have written a better opening? This leads on to writing in general, with this AI capability how will we know who (or what) has written the text that we are reading or whose opinions we are being subjected to. We are constantly having discussion about how much Social Media influences our live. How much will AI influence them. Here’s another interaction with ChatGPT, this time about Cyclists and Car drivers.

Example of interaction with ChatGPT – About 15 seconds for the response to appear!

Was this something I could have read in a newspaper/magazine/book? How good was its writing, did it copy something from the internet or was it truly a unique piece of work created by an AI.

Out of interest, I used a number of tools to check spelling, grammar, reuse and finally loaded it is to Word 365. Using Word’s latest spellchecker, apart from one small conciseness error, it reported it could not find any similar written piece on the Web.

Only one error found, but no copies found online!

This brings us on to another aspect of the use of AI that have many of those in education seriously worried. How will they be able to judge Students contributions when hand in their work and this is not something new!

The conversation has a long way to go, I think.

I was looking at some other aspects of AI and came across a number of newly released AI’s that can generate Art on request! One I that I looked at with amazement was DALL·E2, which is another AI from OpenAI’s stable of AI tools. This and similar AI’s raise a whole series of questions around Copyright.

Who owns the copyright for AI generated images? The original artist, the AI, the person who commissioned the artwork, i.e. the person using the AI? It seems to be a bit of a minefield! Here’s a few articles on that subject.

Here’s some of the art that I had DALL·E2 generate for me from a simple one line description.

Time to generation, 3 seconds!
Time to generation, 3 seconds!
Time to generation, 3 seconds!

It’s one of those sites you could really spend time on, I did for a while!! But it is amazing what can be achieved with a few simple instructions. Art creation may never be the same again!

That said, Ai is here to stay and is already in use in a number of areas that you may not have released that you probably touch on a daily basis.

There will be many benefits (and drawbacks) from the use of AI in our lives. However, it is absolutely right that we need to question the advances and make sure that we control the AI’s before they have the ability to control us!