Oh man, the surreal horror. I got into AI images in September 2022, when Stable Diffusion was the new kid on the block. So I managed to skip the DeepDream era. Not that the diffusion era didn't come with its own can of worms.
Back in my day, my first exposure to AI was, rules based practice, neural networks, artificial intelligence/ reasoning. Well that was in 1990. And so called AI had already been around 30-40 years then. Pace of change and all that. 😉
Sales! Product called “Level 5”. From an American 4gl software company called information builders. Went over to the light not that long after (projects)
I got one of those newfangled iPads with the M5 and all the neurals. I was excited to play with Apple Intelligence and was sad at how boring it is. I mean yay I can edit some stuff out of a photo, but that’s so 80’s! AI can take a photo, remove the background, extend it or replace it with anything I want, etcetera. It’s crazy how quickly we normalize magic. When did you write your first WhyTryAI article?
For real. My first exposure to the current wave of generative AI was Stable Diffusion, and I still remember how special and magical it felt. Nowadays, I can spit out or edit dozens of images a second of almost anything imaginable, and it's like "Meh, pretty standard stuff."
Such a fun, nostalgic read! Captures perfectly how far AI has come and how quickly our standards have evolved.
Happy you enjoyed it, Suhrab! And yes, the pace of change has been pretty relentless!
Amazing how far we've come.
Especially when you consider it was all uphill in the snow!
Were you around for Google’s deep dream? Everything looked like it was from an acid trip
Oh man, the surreal horror. I got into AI images in September 2022, when Stable Diffusion was the new kid on the block. So I managed to skip the DeepDream era. Not that the diffusion era didn't come with its own can of worms.
I wrote about the state of AI back in the late 70s, in "Inventing the Future." Terry Winograd, Seymour Papert.
That was the first AI Winter.
So the legends were true. I've heard of them. The Elders. But I didn't believe it. Didn't want to believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4RvYJYOzI
this was impressive back in the day.
To be fair, that is pretty impressive, considering it's the late 60s
They didn't have Big Data, for sure. Or GPU's.
Back in my day, my first exposure to AI was, rules based practice, neural networks, artificial intelligence/ reasoning. Well that was in 1990. And so called AI had already been around 30-40 years then. Pace of change and all that. 😉
A true veteran among us. 1990s? I didn't even know such years existed! What kind of work were you doing with AI back then?
Sales! Product called “Level 5”. From an American 4gl software company called information builders. Went over to the light not that long after (projects)
Just looked it up: https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/as_it_launches_the_object_oriented_level_5_the_boss_is_sceptical_about
Sounds like it must've been pretty fancy at the time!
Well I never understood it. Probably why I didn’t sell many 😂. Not really AI but sort of in that broad field. Lots of change since.
And thanks for the link. Brings back memories.
I got one of those newfangled iPads with the M5 and all the neurals. I was excited to play with Apple Intelligence and was sad at how boring it is. I mean yay I can edit some stuff out of a photo, but that’s so 80’s! AI can take a photo, remove the background, extend it or replace it with anything I want, etcetera. It’s crazy how quickly we normalize magic. When did you write your first WhyTryAI article?
For real. My first exposure to the current wave of generative AI was Stable Diffusion, and I still remember how special and magical it felt. Nowadays, I can spit out or edit dozens of images a second of almost anything imaginable, and it's like "Meh, pretty standard stuff."
My very first post was in September 2022 about Stable Diffusion: https://www.whytryai.com/p/turn-your-doodles-into-art-with-ai