Going to Bed at the Dawn of AI
It's here already, we just don't know how weird it will get.
She went to bed relatively easy tonight. She asked if we can “look at pictures” when she’s in the bed.
“Looking at Pictures”, means we fire up the Google Photos app and check out the photos it suggests from the archives. A look back in time to one year ago today, etc. It will surface up some old photos and it’s fun to go back and see them and share them with her again.
But we’ve added a new habit or distraction to the bedtime routine: Playing with AI.
To date, we haven’t had any real use for AI except for maybe using a chatbot to get the car serviced without having to make a phone call.
The only use we really have to date for it is for AI to re-mix the photo get an AI result. It’s a fun way to get her to wind down and after a few photos she’s bored and I take my phone and sneak out
What we’ve found with this new activity is the AI will either get it so wrong it’s not funny, or, as in the case with tonight’s example: pretty spot on - or better than expected, at least.
Photo we uploaded:
This was just a quick snap of her with her headphones on watching YouTube and trying to keep her clean in her outfit for five minutes before we left for Thanksgiving dinner.
This is what AI thought this picture should look like:
That’s a pretty dramatic difference and it looks great.
Almost
I say almost because I find that like the AI-written stuff, there’s something and I can’t figure out what exactly - that I’m looking at a interpretation of a photo of the child. I wish I could tell you what, but it looks like she’s a bit younger in the AI photo than in real life, and those hands look a little too pudgy for almost 7 years old.
Anyway, this is not a post about AI or and it’s pros vs cons - other than to share that this is what we’re using all that electricity and powerful servers and the millions of dollars that have been poured into the AI boom so far:
To get a six-year-old to go to bed.
The technology may change, but the song remains the same:
It’s called “Go To Bed”.
Keeping it Real, 1
TH and Co.
This post was written without intelligence of any kind, and under the influence of multiple doses of DayQuil. Results may be unexpected.