Yeah, a more honest take would discuss the strengths & weakness of the model. Flux is still better at text than Nano Banana, for instance. There’s no “one model to rule them all,” as much as tech journalism seems to want to write like that.
Directly, generating higher res stuff requires way more compute. But there are plenty of AI upscalers out there, some better, some worse. These are also built into Photoshop now. The difference between an AI image that is easy to spot and hard to spot is using good models. The difference between an AI image that is hard to spot and nearly impossible to spot is another 20 min of work in post.
Nano Banana Pro’s built into Photoshop now, as is Flux Kontext pro.
Harmonize, Generative Fill, and the Neural Filters have all been great additions to Photoshop. They’re the first thing I point to when people ask what gen AI is good for. Now watch Adobe crank up the cost on the Firefly credits.
Write Strange Days 2 instead, please.
Memories are supposed to fade, Lenny.
I feel like we did not learn the lessons Strange Days was trying to teach.
I wonder if Paramount actually still has the 35mm negatives.
Hiro was my first thought when I saw him, too, probably the inspiration. But it’s from the original Don’t Feed the Monkeys game.
Khan Academy’s had ChatGPT (Khanmigo) baked into it for nearly three years.
I can dig it. I love layered wordplay in any language.
If you’re looking for AI-generated anti-AI music, we’ve got that (mildly NSFW).
Fun Fact: Artax can speak in the novel.
Aliens
Just pointing out the definition of A.I. that I am using in this context.
GPTs are based on a deep learning architecture called the transformer. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which is itself a subset of artificial intelligence. -Wikipedia
We have stereo smell to help with locating smells. There’s also the nasal cycle. One nostril/sinus handles most of the airflow, then they swap (the sinuses are separate until they get to the throat). That way one can recover moisture, plus some smells are more easily detected with fast airflow and others with slow. So the nostrils functioning differently gives us a broader range of odor detection. What else? Umm, bilateral symmetry and redundancy is useful.