We need a crowdfunding campaign to send Snoop Dogg to the International Space Station so he can smoke the first blunt in space
That would be a nice contribution to humanity
Glow in the Dark Manta Ray
So Dall-E Mini is doing the Internet rounds
Amongst the rising background hum of AI Sentience in the hype news cycle
I'm sure you know
Here's somebody hosting an instance of it
It is a type of machine learning algorithm called a neural network. This one has been trained on visual data from the Internet. It takes a textual input and creates a visual output influenced by the aggregate processing of it's training data
You type in some words, you get 9 generated images
Two nights ago during a pain-induced extension of insomnia, I had the desire to listen to The Horn Track by The Egyptian Empire
In that moment, my darling entered the chat and I thought it would be funny to create a hamburger called 'The Egyptian Empire'
Imagine walking into Burger Store and seeing The Egyptian Empire on the menu
I'd buy that without even reading the ingredients. Bring it on
Such a burger, if realised, would need to be large in scale and pyramidal in shape
And then it really hit me: I could use Dall-E Mini to visually manifest this idea
So here I am, iteratively working toward the image in my mind's eye, cajoling this complex domain-specific statistical model into heaving forth a hamburger in the shape of a pyramid:
Top left is definitely a pyramid eating a hamburger
Pyramids of burgers
And here we have a winner folks!
The Egyptian Empire:
Of the lot, this is the one closest to the idea
Here's a couple more, unrelated ideas I wanted to see on the day:
Which one's your favourite?
Share your generated images below. Mention my name in your posts. Flex your imagination. Just don't get caught up in the AI mystique
I just think it would make a good name for a burger...
Vinyl image from Discogs
