RE: Employing Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Visualization and the Betterment of Humanity Before it Turns on Us and Destroys Us
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Around 1997, at work, I handled press lists that contained certain data that we received from an office. I transferred the database data into Excel. As a result, the Excel spreadsheet contained many columns that we didn't need for our work and I activated Excel's "record button", which recorded my changes to the original import from the database. Whenever I received a new press distribution list with all the unnecessary data and I activated the recording with my individual manual steps, I then watched the machine delete the unnecessary table columns and I ended up working only with the data I needed for my work. It was great not to have to do this stupid work myself and instead to see the machine do it at super speed. Since this programme did not work in the background but in the foreground, the deleting of the columns was something I could watch on the screen.
I could then visualise the cleansed table on Excel using the graphic functions. At that time, this was available as a curve diagram or as a pie chart in various designs. In other words, I could have the computer calculate a graphical representation from the boring table with table rows and table columns. I can imagine that the possibilities today are much more sophisticated and your playfulness with the programme shows this. Of course, the AI can only come up with the images it already finds on the web. What it doesn't find, it won't be able to show. Which doesn't seem to matter, of course, given the abundance of photographic and artistic material on the web. I wonder if it will send a request to all those who have not copyrighted their work. LOL
Nevertheless, I am a friend of the human being who does not need to transform himself into another being, because I think that in the present organic body, the man still has a lot of potential that he can exploit, he just does not always know it or succeed. Fortunately, I am firmly convinced that if that were the case, I would no longer experience it. I neither exaggerate my joy at progress, nor do I mourn the past excessively. "Humanity" is too big a subject for me anyway, just like "the earth". On the other hand, I love the details and would actually be interested in an application that could spit out my body measurements in 3d in seconds and draw and print a cut according to my ideas.
Like this: Computer, take my measurements and print out a trouser cut with a high waist, a box pleat in the middle of each front trouser cut and trouser legs that taper out tightly. Including inside pockets and a four-centimetre waistband. Add all seam allowances in each case.
I often have design ideas in my head but can't visualise or draw them, but could describe them and then see them suggested by an AI to make further corrections. Of course, this would all be much faster if I were a professional designer and could draw. Then I could save myself all this. On the other hand, most and my best ideas came to me while doing it myself. When I had unravelled second-hand fabrics and then the different parts were lying in front of me and I was thinking about what to do with them.
Great anecdote on how things have changed technologically in the past couple of decades. Even technology from the past five years is quickly becoming dated as development accelerates.
The copyright issue is still up in the air. Some companies are going to let artists opt out of getting their work included in the training sets. Personally, I think we should throw everything into the AI blender, copyrighted or not. We're in a wild wild frontier of creative output, and this is the time to boldly start generating ideas. Shoot first and ask questions later. 🤠
You could also share those measurements with us, so we can create our own AI version of @erh.germany to have outrageous conversations with based on data mined from information available online. That'd be incredible! ;)
I have many ideas swirling in my head too and oftentimes they're not clear. I'm finding that generating images helps me narrow those ideas and synthesize them better. I often write pieces of narrative with no clear plot, and now that I'm revisiting those pieces and generating AI images for them, I find that with the AI output, I'm able to think about how the narrative should unfold more easily than using pure imagination. The AI is like an imagination machination that makes salient that which is nebulous in the mind. It's incredible, and I'm excited for what lies ahead.
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LOL, I wouldn't have expected you asking first. :D
Better not ;)
I see. I am not there though. There are so many movies out there that I often get inspired by those, how they are presented, the pictures, land- and cityscapes, characters etc. Also, books give me that kind of move and motivation. Or blogs, for that matter. Though I understand what you are talking about. I may try it one day and see if it gets me going in the same way :)