A brief postscript re: AI

 

There's been some discussion where someone creating an AI deck defends it by saying what matters is "the intent of the creator." The problem with that is that AI ignores intent.

Last night I went to DALL E and made a simple request: Theda Bara reading playing cards. The image exists on the net, both the image above and this movie poster version:

What I got was this:

 

 

Besides the usual horrifically blinded eyes and deformed hands (something nobody intends), none of them are Theda Bara.

The first one looks liked Shirley Feeny from Laverne and Shirley.

 

All of this stuff is in its infancy, and in spite of what some folks think, it isn't putting jobs on the chopping block. Manufacturing plants need people to monitor and run the robots, otherwise they damage product in all kinds of hilarious ways, or just stop working. I don't see automated vehicles being used for trucking, either. There's enough horror stories about the cars. Imagine an interstate full of automated 18 wheelers.

Its one thing to enjoy playing with it. But it makes lousy deck images.