AI Is Here To Help

[Bob Cleek]

Yes, about those ropes hanging out of the cannon barrels. AI's reasoning was completely sound. It's apparent that in "filling in the details" of the requested picture, it came across the fact that "tampions" are plugs placed in the end of cannon barrels. When it searched for the meaning of "tampion," it discovered it was a French word translating in English to the word "tampon," so AI figured, "If there's tampons plugging the cannon barrels, there's gotta be a string hanging out of the muzzles."

 

[Bob Cleek]

Have any of you asked AI a question and gotten posts from SoS and MSW? I have seen my own posts in the AI responses and not all of them were correct as it turns out. AI is not a bad place to start, but probably not a good place to end with many things. It seems that the AI library of information gives as many incorrect responses as correct ones when it comes to our hobby.
Allan

Yes! I've had the same experience. It's a bit unnerving to run an AI check on a fact and get an answer back citing yourself as the authority! Today's "Artificial Intelligence" reminds me of my own "organic artificial intelligence" used to BS my way through essay questions on high school tests for which I was insufficiently prepared!

 

[Senorbob]

I asked CoPilot to, "Show a picture of the ropes used to lower small boats from wooded sailing ships". Here is what I got. It really was a big help.

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getting the rigging line through the vent holes took the highest level of seamanship

 

[Dogwatch]

I was doing research for The Queen Anne Royal Bardge, I used an AI to help me find material relating to this. Here was the answer. I used that info to retrieve an image of the lines, so I could draft my hull in Cad. Incredibly helpful in research. Shallop was the key that I was missing. I ran mutiple questions to AI to get to the final result.

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) / Royal Museums Greenwich: The museum holds a highly famous, perfectly preserved contemporary 1:24 scale Navy Board model of a Queen Anne Royal Barge (circa 1710). This architectural model was built "plank-on-frame" to explicitly show the ship's stations, framing, and layout. You can search their collection database using Object ID SLR0213 or System Number RMGC-object-66360.

 

[Roger Pellett]

AI appears to be very 2026. It’s a computer driven popularity contest.

Roger