Okay, I am very much not a fan of what is currently being called "AI".
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| My standards for what can legitimately be called "artificial intelligence" are not low. |
I saw a video that compared it to polyester, which was also introduced as a new Modern Miracle, then overused in applications for which it was not suited, thus gaining a reputation as crap, until it was eventually used in a more limited fashion or combined with more natural products.
And of course there are all the not-minor insalubrious effects on the environment, the economy, and society.
That said...
I have fallen under the spell of JuJuBit, a AI-driven website that allows you to create 3D tabletop game pieces better than any other method I've used. For example:
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| The camera on my elderly iPhone really doesn't do these figures (The Penny Plunderer, The Red Bee, Bull's-Eye, Wild Dog 2.0 and 1.0, and Dollman) justice. |
All of these were generated by JuJuBit by a combination of image and textual input. For example, the AI didn't really detect the pennies in the Penny Plunder image, so I added the prompt "holding pennies", and lo, there were pennies.
Anything that produces anything this good, specialized, and reasonably costed must SURELY be deeply evil.
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| Or perhaps just deeply misunderstood. |
You may judge that for yourself. I know only that I have been pleasantly surprised at this new means of creating Heroclix sculpts that would be otherwise impossible In forthcoming posts, I'm going to focus on each figure, tell you why I made it, and what dial I'll be using for it. In the meantime, you may want to experiment with using the site itself.
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| Before Winslow destroys it. |
1 comment:
AI is neither good nor evil; the problem is finding good uses for it (since most of the things it's used for are bad). Here are a few uses I consider acceptable:
- A friend of mine uses it to analyze news articles for bias. Of course you don't shut off your brain and go with its conclusions, but you think about them.
- I'm a fan of music performed in entirely the wrong genre. I love that Postmodern Jukebox does that sort of thing, but they don't go far enough. What if I want to hear "Smells like Teen Spirit" in country / Western style? Or Metallica's "Enter Sandman" done as a lavish Broadway musical? Or the Beatles White Album as Motown (yes including "Revolution No 9")? People have used AI to give me that.
- How about medical research? Figuring out how complex fold themselves is the sort of thing that mere mortal minds can't always handle. Let the AI do it.
AI is a tool, and like any tool it extends human faculties. The trick is extending the RIGHT faculties.
- HJF1
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