Playing around with AI
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RichardG
Western Thunderer
Some latitude is possible. In the film "Get Carter", the man drinking in the bar in Newcastle has five fingers and a thumb on the hand holding his glass.I’m not counting but I’ll bet there are not 80 fingers & thumbs between them…
I like the rendering but the juxtaposition of the people is a bit awkward - two women with luggage, four men doing nothing to help.
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
That's AI for you, just thinks of itself!...
Osgood
Western Thunderer
If the black & white photo attached is the only piece of reality that you inputted, @paratom , I would say we're in for a most uncertain future, where choosing between reality and illusion may no longer even be practical.
Maybe, for many of us who can remember a simpler life, it's approaching time to get off the train - and Grindleford seems as good a place to alight as any
Maybe, for many of us who can remember a simpler life, it's approaching time to get off the train - and Grindleford seems as good a place to alight as any
paratom
Western Thunderer
I wouldn't get off there unless your a cistercian monk on holiday.If the black & white photo attached is the only piece of reality that you inputted, @paratom , I would say we're in for a most uncertain future, where choosing between reality and illusion may no longer even be practical.
Maybe, for many of us who can remember a simpler life, it's approaching time to get off the train - and Grindleford seems as good a place to alight as any
You obviously haven’t been to the cafe and had a breakfast.
Dan Randall
Western Thunderer
Incidentally, did you hear about the Judge with no thumbs?
Justice Fingers…!
Regards
Dan
Osgood
Western Thunderer
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
I thought I would see what AI could do to and some life to an official photo of the MR station Grindleford. Here are the results, not perfect but an enjoyable exercise indeed.
What did you input to get that result, @paratom ? At one level it's quite convincing but once one questions the details it becomes obvious it's not an original photo.
Brian
What did you input to get that result, @paratom ? At one level it's quite convincing but once one questions the details it becomes obvious it's not an original photo.
Brian
Osgood
Western Thunderer
Other than perhaps the imagined colourisation being too precise, I don't see anything obviously wrong.
Without a wealth of experience of the observed railway a layperson would I think be struggling?
So what gives it away for others?
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sjp23480
Western Thunderer
@Osgood I suspect you are more likely to win the lottery than having a picture of two pairs of male twins on the same station platform on the same day in the early part of the C20th.
Even less likely that one pair of said twins are the station staff - although I am sure someone will prove me wrong on this point. There's an exception to every rule.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
AI used like this has shades of the Cottingley Fairies
As regarding the detail and after studying Victorian/Edwardian station photographs it would be unlikely you would have a family group next to station staff given the deference paid between the social classes of the period. Of the photographs I have seen of this era people are always looking at the camera as it would be an unusual event given that only those sufficient funds would be able to afford a camera.
Railway staff are generally seen in line facing the camera as if a group photograph and passengers are seen in their own separate group, again facing the camera. Granted, there will be exceptions where the photograph may capture passengers looking away from the camera.
AI has alot to learn - it may be relatively good with images but it lacks intelligence to satisfactorily analyse and process historical, social and cultural information which can be gleaned from printed matter and images.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Also the platform was wooden beyond the lamp post which is evident from the original photograph.
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