AI Reconstructed Pictures

[Luiz B. F. Grassi]

Dutch East Indiaman votive model


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Dutch 2 Decker

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Gouda Stern


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Prins de Paard

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Dutch Frigate


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Kat


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Ulst

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Zeven Provinciën


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English 2 Decker

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Swallow


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Naima ,
Ricostruzioni bellissimi, un ottimo inizio per un lavoro che può rivelarsi molto utile per la ricerca.
Grazie per la pubblicazione.

 

[Roger Pellett]

Lyman, does your SOS “handle refer to a boat that you owned or might have owned? Lyman boats are legendary.

Roger

 

[POPEYE_DA_SAILOR]

I must admit that I am a big fan of AI. (Nvidia has been very good to me!) That said, it's a technology which is only in its infancy as far as popular applications are concerned, so what we see on our home computers is rather juvenile, as AI applications go. Presently, at best, we experience it as a search engine on steroids, which is exactly what it is. It's true value is in highly technical high-speed data storage and retrieval applications, not in generating memes and advertising copy. AI doesn't "think." It just "remembers" very fast. As with all data processing technology, the old "garbage in = garbage out" principle still applies. In the AI universe, there is a name for the weird stuff it produces. They call it AI "hallucination." What we are looking at in those pictures, which are magically amazing, is nonetheless unreliable because of such "hallucinations." As has been observed, "They are an interesting "cup of tea," but there's many a slip between the cup and the lip."

What I find fascinating about them is how these AI algorithms decided to portray just about every vessel they generated as without paint or oil, let along gold leaf, and with planking so weathered that it looks as if it's all thoroughly rotting! Perhaps the program relied too much on the abundance of Pirates of the Caribbean images on the internet for its "information" about what ships of old actually looked like!

 

[18Lyman]

Lyman, does your SOS “handle refer to a boat that you owned or might have owned? Lyman boats are legendary.

Roger

Yes, it was an 18 foot Islander, 1953, same as in the James bond film with Ursela. It came to me with a trolling Universal flathead 4 and a 2/1 Paragon clutch, and a hogged bottom. I was able to reshape and reinforce the bottom, and fiberglassed it. I refurbished the whole boat and engine. used it for four years. A collector bought the running gear and the boat was sold and converted to a rooftop bar. From the waterline down was hung from the ceiling below in the ground floor bar. The transom was proffesionally lettered WHIZ BANG after Captain Billy's joke book. Funny you should ask.

 

[Roger Pellett]

I grew up in NE Ohio and sailed on Lake Erie with my parents. I believe that Lymans were built at Sandusky not far from they kept their boat. The business closed down in the early 1980’s.

Roger

 

[18Lyman]

I grew up in NE Ohio and sailed on Lake Erie with my parents. I believe that Lymans were built at Sandusky not far from they kept their boat. The business closed down in the early 1980’s.

Roger

Tell me about sailing with your parents,cruises, places, their boat. I grew up as a lad in Chicago, sailing Lake Michigan with my parents, out of Burnham Park Harbor.

 

[alross2]

Most AI renditions of 20th century naval vessels that I've seen are absolute garbage. They seldom even come close to the actual appearance of the vessel. On the sites I admin, AI posts and posts with colorized images are not allowed.

 

[POPEYE_DA_SAILOR]

Most AI renditions of 20th century naval vessels that I've seen are absolute garbage. They seldom even come close to the actual appearance of the vessel. On the sites I admin, AI posts and posts with colorized images are not allowed.

Yes, indeed! Banning AI images on "history" sites is a great idea. One big problem with AI imagery is that, once created, the stuff lives on forever in the digital ether. I pity the historians ages from now who will be arguing over whether the "photograph" they've discovered is, or is not, a reliable artifact deserving of credibility in the historical record. The same is true of ship models, of course. Today, ship model kit manufacturers seem all too ready to replicate the details of three-hundred-year-old museum models that have been "restored" and re-rigged several times over by God-only-knows-who and nobody knows when. Then again, the deficient archival quality of poorly built ship models ensures they are unlikely to stand the test of time as well as a digital record so perhaps they pose less of a risk.

This isn't to categorically condemn AI technology, though. I saw an ad on TV the other day for a new type of AI enhanced Ray Ban sunglasses for blind people. By "looking" at a printed page, the wearer hears the text read to them. By looking at a closet full of hanging shirts, the sightless wearer can ask, "Which is my blue shirt?" and the glasses tell them it's the third shirt on the pole from the right! It's definitely a technology that has only begun to change things for the better if applied responsibly.

 

[Allegheny]

Hello @Naima

Thanks for starting this very interesting thread.
One question though, exactly how did you get AI to render those images?
What site did you use and instructions?

Thanks!

 

[Naima]

Hello @Naima

Thanks for starting this very interesting thread.
One question though, exactly how did you get AI to render those images?
What site did you use and instructions?

Thanks!

Very simply I asked Gemini to pick the image andturn into a realistic image, tha'ts all , no magic prompt or else.

 

[Allegheny]

Very simply I asked Gemini to pick the image andturn into a realistic image, tha'ts all , no magic prompt or else.

Thank you!

 

[kirill4]

Most AI renditions of 20th century naval vessels that I've seen are absolute garbage. They seldom even come close to the actual appearance of the vessel. On the sites I admin, AI posts and posts with colorized images are not allowed.

Fully agree with this point of vew , and It would be nice to apply these rules to all vessel's images created by AI , not only 20th century , sometimes I see our colleques start to use AI images of sailing vessels as arguments in discussion! ))
more over - it would be nice do the same for the music generated by AI( just I hate it when it is only not funny kind of songs which make me laughing)...
but...from other hands, sometimes I like very much when my smart speaker reply on my questions or when it extremly fast found requested information in reply to my questions , but still I do not know is it true answers I got or it is partly lie ))!!!
If seriously It would be real disaster if sometimes somewhere AI will launch nuclear bombs in wrong direction by mistake or wrong interpritation of real situation, and there will not be option to step back...