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Mr O announces that he's been using his time away from work to develop a new user interface for AI models. Mr O decided to keep the name of the his user interface simple, to the point and incorporating his name. After hours of research, he landed on it being knows as the “AI-UI-O”.

In other news, Old MacDonald sues Mr O for copyright infringement claiming that he used his catch-phrase of E-I-E-I-O as the basis for the name of his new model.

Now, while you may think this to be tongue in cheek, which it clearly is, it does have a lot of connection to what's going on in the AI world, particularly the design or text-to-image AIs used to generate pictures based on text. Exactly the thing I used for the hero page and can be seen on the AI Art images. There are groups or artists suing these models as they are creating images based on their work. Interestingly, I watched something (YouTube maybe) on the claims that Aston Martin has copied the Red Bull. While it's clear they have taken some of the Red Bull designs, they clearly have taken a lot of inspiration from Red Bull. Now there are rules against copying, like scanning competitors cars to get exact specifications, but there's nothing against looking at something and using that as a guide. As the narrator said, otherwise, every team would be in breach of copying the inventor of the wheel. (Although the way this week's vote is going, I'm not sure Mr O's pick to win would be hindered by square wheels).

I'll let the courts decide what is and isn't fair game when it comes to training AI models, but it was very notable that Adobe have gone out of their way to point out that the data (images) that their Firefly product have been trained have been approved for that use. In other words, they either own the copyright or have permission to use the image base that their AI is trained on. What this ultimately means is that the text-to-image AI models are here to stay whether the artists like it or not and regardless of whether anyone deems there to have been a copyright infringement or not. It's a bit like traditional photographers complaining about digital photography claiming that they're missing the art of capturing the perfect image because so much can be done with pre and post processing in the digital world. While I agree, digital photography is here, so the new standard is photos that have been pre and post processed .... get onboard!

Time to sidetrack from the main topic for a bit. I've made note in prior weeks that something strange has been happening with the voting and it seems that someone or something has been dropping a vote in for every answer that was provided as an option. Well, the page that was being accessed is that from the vote email, so, it would be reasonable to assume that the who or what had access to the email. The thing that is weird is that there's a measure in place to prevent multiple votes from the same IP address, therefore whoever or whatever was posting had the ability to change their IP address as the votes were not being registered under a different name per IP. Next, the access logs show where the votes were being registered from and all of them had the hostname of “cache.google.com”.

Sidetrack from the sidetrack - I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but if two of us go to YouTube with the same link to watch a video, we are not watching the same video unless we are living in close proximity to each other. Popular videos are sent to cache sites around the world to allow people fast access to anything that is trending, otherwise you'd have to wait ages for the video to load because multiple people would be trying to access the same file on the same IP address at the same time and you'd hit a bandwidth problem. This is achieved through the use of cache sites.

Ah, now you're getting there. So, whatever has been voting has access to connect through the cache sites to my site. Now, I may be wrong here, but what seems to have been happening is a vote comes in, then access to another vote is attempted and the message “a vote has already been registered from this IP address” is provided and then the vote is registered from a different IP. Kind of makes me think that Google has been testing Bard on my vote question which, if true, is absolutely hilarious to me, cus it ain't gonna find no intelligence here. But it does prove that AI has the ability to make an action and then adjust in a very sophisticated way to events that it encounters. It's also interesting that the mystery voting stopped when Bard went public.

So what is AI? Well, who better to ask than ChatGPT which said “I am an artificial intelligence language model known as ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. My purpose is to engage in human-like conversations and provide helpful responses to various queries and topics. I am capable of generating text based on patterns and context from the vast amount of data that I have been trained on. While I am not a human, I strive to communicate in a natural and relatable way.”

All that is well and good, but the real question here is what is generative AI, to which ChatGPT replied “Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence that can create new and original content, such as images, videos, music, or text. It uses machine learning algorithms, typically based on deep neural networks, to learn from a large dataset of examples and generate new data that is similar in style or content.

Generative AI can be used for a variety of purposes, such as creating realistic synthetic images or videos for games and movies, generating new music or art, or even writing entire articles or books. The technology is still in its early stages and has limitations, but it is constantly improving and has the potential to revolutionize many industries.

One of the most impressive applications of generative AI is language models like GPT-3, which can generate text that is almost indistinguishable from text written by humans. These models have the potential to transform the way we communicate and interact with technology, opening up new possibilities for human-machine collaboration and creativity.”

This is one of the topics that I'll dig into here, specifically, how generative AI will evolve and be adopted into the workplace.

The first blog in a new series that I'm going to start on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Anyone who's listed to me has heard me blab on and on about AI since I first learned about ChatGPT in November of 2022. It was really over Christmas when I had chance to play with it that I really started to understand what AI actually meant and the possibilities it provides. Back then, and even more so now after the release of GPT 4.0, it's pretty obvious this is the going to be the most transformative technology we've seen. The home PC and the iPhone are going to pale in comparison to AI.

These blogs are going to explore thoughts on what AI has to offer, how we will see it adopted and where it will all end. Very exciting stuff!