So I got my girlfriend a pair of USB DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) controllers and figured it would be easy to get them setup on my Mac laptop with an emulator, but I ended up spending a few hours scouring various Reddit threads before I could get it working. The process isn’t too complicated once …
Thoughts on AI in the New Year
2023 was definitely the year that the AI market started to explode, with the revolution kicked off by ChatGPT & Dall-E blossoming into thousands of companies and apps built on top of or around competing technologies. Some of the exciting tech that came out of 2023 include: GPT-4, Claude, Bard, Mixtral and other foundation models …
The Limits of Superintelligence
“Superintelligence” by Nick Bostrom has become one of the most influential books on the subject of runaway superintelligence in AI, and how AI might be contained so that AI doesn’t lead to cataclysmic outcomes for humanity. It has definitely been a thought-provoking book, and one question I find myself asking after reading it, which ties …
Changing the Style of a Photo Using Generative Fill in Photoshop
Came across a neat little trick for changing the style of a photo (for example into a watercolor painting or oil painting) using Photoshop’s generative fill feature: Use @Photoshop Generative Fill to turn a photo into a watercolor painting (thanks to a tip from @BLTVPhotoshop). You can try this with everything (pencil drawings, textures, oil …
Words That Are Also HEX Colors
Came across a tweet the other day that low key blew my mind: The word "decade" is a valid hex color pic.twitter.com/AeFrQ9Z9MO — kepano (@kepano) June 19, 2023 In my 25+ years of web development, it never occurred to me that there are HEX colors which are also words in English! I tried using ChatGPT …
Custom AI Generated QR Codes
The latest thing on AI Twitter this week has been the beta launch of QuickQR, a generative AI that creates artistic QR codes based on a QR code and a prompt. I’ve been playing with the tool for the past half hour, and the servers already seem to be overloaded and it’s not generating any …
Creating a Salsa Dancing Robot using Wonder Studio
I finally got access to Wonder Dynamics, which uses AI to replace human actors in a video with CGI characters, and the first video I made has already gone viral on Instagram & Facebook: It was super easy to use the tool to replace my friend Jhonner with a robot in just a few clicks, …
Adobe AI Integration is a Game Changer
Adobe’s recent integration of AI functionality has truly been a game changer, that has had an actual impact on my workflow and capabilities as a photographer. Once recent use case: using generative fill (outpainting) in Photoshop to expand photos so they can be posted on Instagram. Instagram has a maximum 4×5 aspect ratio for photos, …
Thoughts on Use Cases for ChatGPT So Far
I’ve played around with ChatGPT and similar AI tools now for a few months, and here are my current thoughts as far as actual use cases. At a high level, I find the new AI tools coming out useful in inverse proportion to how skilled I am already at that task. For example, I am …
Expanding Famous Album Covers Using Photoshop Generative Fill
The latest trend on AI Twitter has been using Photoshop’s newly released generative fill feature to expand iconic album covers past their original borders to imagine what might have lay just out of sight. Some really good ones out there, including covers from Muse, Nirvana and The Beatles: I’ve seen people do the same with …