Rhubarb update.

 Removed flowers.

Youngest brother got married.

 Had to drive my parents a few states over to attend. Back home now.

Garden is now tilled.

Neighbor had an 8 foot wide tiller hooked to a full sized tractor. He made a couple passes in two places for my garden. :)

A selfie portrait.

 

Open source chat ai models

7 differently sized models for your ai chat botting pleasure.  These are open source models with a license that gives you wide latitude in what you do with them.

 https://huggingface.co/cerebras

Loving the image generating ai programs.

 Writing a good text prompt that generates what you want is a real skill. 

Recommendations should be a plugin that people can choose for a website.

 It would be nice if a framework could be introduced that allows recommendations to be given based on a plug-in chosen by the user.  Maybe running at a higher level than website.  

Based on a comment from a friend.

Yeah it would be cool if there was a common interface for recommendations algorithms, then third parties could develop their own and it could plugin to the various social media platforms.

Bookshelves, second look.

 Took down the bookshelves I put up on the left side as you walk in. Putting them back up with brackets, spaced apart for air circulation and to make them look better. Cut old weathered 2x4s to turn them into finishing and support boards for the fronts of the shelves.

Rhubarb is doing amazing

 

Solar cooking test

 Rigged up a solar oven with a cooler and a big sheet of glass. It was getting over 176 degrees. It heated up taco shells perfectly and the refried beans and taco mix were at 150 degrees. It did take a few hours.

Plants are sprouting.

First batch of sunflowers are ready to plant.

 

Little spring flowers in the yard.

 

M1 MacBook blows away my old Intel MacBook air running Diffusionbee.

 I knew my step dad's new M1 Macbook would be faster than my 5 year old Intel MacBook Air, but I was not expecting a 60 times speed difference.  It only takes 20 seconds for his computer to generate an HD image compared to 20 minutes for mine to produce a non hd image.  If I had loaded the non hd version his computer would have been 120 times faster than mine generating the same quality images. 

This is an insane speed difference. I was expecting him to be able to generate an image in 10 minutes, compared to 20 for my computer.  To be 2 orders of magnitude different really highlights how superior the newer MacBooks really are.

A discussion about what ai image generation needs to be really useful. How to have ai generate text prompts from a story to input to an image generator.

 Him 

I like those two you did, that's awesome haha

Me

thanks! I am looking at how to create a text prompt my looking at examples.  It is almost like a magic incantation. LOL

Me

I found some negative prompts to not have detached deformed  limbs and extra fingers strewn around the picture. L

Me

I think it is funny that you have to specifically tell it not to do that.

Him

Haha yeah. I want to try asking ChatGPT to generate prompts for me

Me

I wonder if you have a picture described as a prompt with a specific seed if that could be considered a form of compression. L

oh, that could be cool.  Given this story, generate a series of prompts to feed into a specific ai image generator to illustrate the story.   Or to generate the panels for a comic book, putting in the text bubbles with the dialog.

It would be really cool it you could use the description of a character to create a consistent character across panels.

like a #define Harry_Potter <text prompt character description>

Me

Can you imagine downloading a comic book  from online as a 100k text file and it is generated  just in time as you turn the page.

Him

Woh that is an awesome idea. I know with Midjourney you can provide the seed (1-1000) so that it generates the same image every time

All of this is going to be come reality in the next 10 years or so as people figure out how to get AI to do things like this.

Imagine giving an AI a prompt for a story and it churns out a 300 page illustrated novel. "Like lord of the Rings but more battles and give it an unexpected twist ending"

Then a hardback gold foil "collectors edition" book shows up on your doorstep the next morning.

Hooking AI text and image models with KDP book printing and Amazon same day delivery.

Oh, and alsp make this one into a movie please.

Lol, the future is going to be wild.

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I asked ChatGPT to give me a story, I fed each paragraph into Midjourney, and then I put it together in photoshop

Him

Somehow the input into each image needs to be all the previous images so that the characters are the same.

There definitely needs to be some logic that says, "this character" in "this scene"

I also can't get chat gpt to output real stories. It's always just "once upon a time" summaries if stories.

Him

Explicitly asking for character names and dialog helped though

An AI based “comic book maker” that takes prompts, writes a story, generates images into predesignated comic book panels, needs to exist

$$$ right there haha

Him

In time I'm sure that they will nail these edge cases down. Hands, weapons, fingers especially need work.

Just need more specialized training data

The fact that it does the big things super good, like "mood" "feeling" "emotion" but that it struggles on specific details is the opposite of what I would have expected.

But also a sign that there is no fundamental limit with the current architecture. If it can figure out the difference between a "somber" picture and a "epic" picture, then they will solve the 6 fingered hands lol

Me 

I actually get better results just by giving it more general  prompts  turning up the creativityand then having it create 40 images overnight.

Him

Ah okay thats a good point. What matters is that there's one good images, doesn't matter too much even if 39 of the 40 are bad, as long as you get the one great one.

That only matters if you are the human spending your own time painting all those images haha

Me 

I think if they create a poser model and then pose that in a scene with human anatomical limits and use that as a seed for the rest of the image that would help.