The whale weather vane and artificial intelligence have tiny similarities. Only the latter learns but both inform us and neither understands or feels the way living things do. The
Poets and Storytellers United prompt "AI" had me thinking that the pixel-data manipulator mimicking life is mechanical but also mercurial like pixie dust in the wind.
I realized that the art's program I used to edit the photo (below) was done with the help of AI, normalized in ways we don't even recognize. It's in our phones, cameras, computers and most services and spaces we utilize regularly.
By the looks of the computer image, it's easy to see I took that picture years ago. There has been much progress since then; technology moves rapidly. It's expansion is frightening and exciting. AI taps into all existing knowledge to assist humanity but as we rely on it more will we become less adept or more wise? I don't know. I do know there's an earlier intelligence, before AI came along, embedded in every seed and creature that instinctively knows how to grow ... some even cry real soppy tears.
I like that weather vane. My 10 year old granddaughter saw a large computer monitor in a movie recently (similar to the one in your photo) and asked me what it was. In her lifetime, all screens are flat, so she couldn't even recognize it!
ReplyDeleteAI is everywhere already, or people are claiming it is. I use lightroom and they are claiming AI there as well. Ok, well maybe. I'm old enough that when I was in engineering school, in freshman year nobody had calculators, sophomore year, very primitive calculators and by the time I graduated we had sophisticated programmable calculators. I was afraid that my hard earned skills on learning how slide rules worked would be worthless. Little did I know how computers would revolutionize things.
ReplyDeleteCool weather vane.
ReplyDeleteLovely pics! The weather vane is most fabulous. I read about someone using an AI-generated image of their target's friend to fraudulently borrow millions.
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ReplyDeleteI love the weathervane and whales. Cute photo of the children on their walk. The flowers are all beautiful. Wonderful photos. Have a wonderful weekend!
Love that picture of the bench at the waterfront.
ReplyDeleteWonderful post and gorgeous photos ~
ReplyDeleteYep AI here to stay ~ mixed emotions about it for sure ~ like everything there is always a positive and a negative for human use.
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
But not just recently that weather vane has gone digital and now virtual. You can have your own or grab one from the internet. My own is still in its box, if I can even find it. On-line, my smartphone, I am using a free one from Yahoo now sitting at the bottom of my opening home page. Another, the Weather Channel on the page before came as an app with the smart phone.
ReplyDeleteThe weather vane is parallel with the horse and wagon, the online with the Tesla car, all work, modern do more faster and more,.
efficiently.
One worry, I predict a strong, extra strong Solar Flare charged with more electricity than computers can predict will soon, maybe later, visit our entire earth. It will knock out all electronics like the large lightening bolt that wiped a remote control unit and the DirecTV receiver unit.
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Yes, as important as our creations and we are, the plug can be pulled on everything in an instant.
DeleteBrava. Brava. Brava. (great photography as always.)
ReplyDeleteWhat excellent points you make – and demonstrate. Like many things it may be a case of 'good servant, bad master.'
ReplyDeleteSo right you are, Maria. How will it make poetry without lived emotional experience... And I love that weather vane..
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI mentioned above I just love the whale weathervane. Whales are one of marine animals. Your photos are lovely, beautiful flowers and landscapes. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great weekend.
Hello :=)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of nature and I love the one of the children and the bench by the shore. I also like the whale weathervane and with regards to AI, I am still uncertain, as we still have much to learn with our "own" intelligence.
Thank you, Maria, for describing so aptly what I had felt about the art made up by AI in your “Mechanical Tears”. Let me introduce a haiku, which I was touched by, composed by a school child recently. “Robot no mune no haguruma haru wo matsu” meaning “a gear in the chest of a robot is waiting for spring.” The writer sees heart beating for spring in the old-fashioned clockwork humanoid robot. I love the whale weather vane spinning in the blue sky.
ReplyDeleteThe child who wrote, "a gear in the chest of a robot is waiting for spring" has the heart of a poet. How compellingly described and in layered and different ways relevant to our times and the future.
DeleteThose poppies are ginormous!! I like the whale weather vain too.
ReplyDeleteLovely weather vane ❤
ReplyDeleteCreature that I instinctively grows.....soppy tears, now that's marvelously writing.
ReplyDeleteWhat good points you made here.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school I used a slide rule. I bet a lot of today's kids don't know what is a slide rule. Now I use the phone calculator to add 2 plus 2.
I think as long as we are able to enjoy the scent and color of a flower, we are safe. :)
Love the comparison to a weather vane! Excellent photos.
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