ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and Birding! (1 Viewer)

[RichardHoeg]

ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence Service, and the Great Gray Owl!
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I have been testing Chat-GPT. This image is my own A.I. generated image. Read my review of both the image generation service and the text based A.I. question service via my blog. The focus of my review was in fact the Great Gray Owl, which I am lucky enough to see quite often in northern Minnesota where I am a volunteer naturalist at Sax-Zim Bog.
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[pppppvvvv]

So what is going on here? as opposed to a google search and well, google search for images?
I have to admit, I'm in a technology industry, and hear about Chatgpt almost daily, without knowing very much about it.
(I did study artificial intelligence and expert systems about 30 years ago, but it seemed to be little more than programming for every permutation of question and answer in a decision tree back in those days!)

 

[Essex Tern]

Computer generated images via DALL·E 2

I assume it must merge bits of other images together to create it’s own image, but could be wrong.

 

[raymie]

Computer generated images via DALL·E 2

I assume it must merge bits of other images together to create it’s own image, but could be wrong.

Nope, it's not a collage, it creates a brand-new image based on patterns it sees in other images. It's really interesting.

 

[Essex Tern]

Nope, it's not a collage, it creates a brand-new image based on patterns it sees in other images. It's really interesting.

I assume it will have a function in design processes as time goes by, it has limited appeal to me from an art point of view, but yes certainly interesting.

 

[jurek]

I asked the professional version of Chatgpt questions about birds. It produced about 1/3 good answers, about 1/3 weak but not wrong answers and 1/3 wrong answers. Yes, it often produces a perfect answer or can even detect a simple trap. But equally often produces very plausible looking but completely wrong answer.

I feel Chatgpt answers well on simple things present in many places in the internet, but asked things not very common on the internet (like information about birds) it generates random sentences. Especially if it produces a wrong answer, asking it again or correcting will not help. It will produce 2,3,4,5 wrong answers in a row.

In summary, time required to correct wrong information, or wrong bits inserted into correct bits, outweighed me time saved by using Chatgpt. After a month using it for professional matters, I cancelled my subscription.

I also asked another AI, Scribbledinfusion to draw a White-winged Tern in flight. It produced a weird picture with body parts wrongly assembled. I put it on the joke section of Birdforum somewhere.

 

[njlarsen]

True story: someone I know suspected that some student essays were written by ChatGPT. When the text was copied into the AI with the question "did you write this" the answer was yes about half the time and no the rest. When this was told to an expert, the explanation was that ChatGPT does not have a concept of truth built in. Answers of yes and no must be about equally common on the web.
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[Mono]

There's a good Computer Computerphile video on how AI image generation works.

 

[jurek]

I am new Killian Mullarney! This is from the AI graphics program Scribbledinfusion! Do you think bird illustrators will become obsolete?

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[MatthewL]

ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence Service, and the Great Gray Owl!
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I have been testing Chat-GPT. This image is my own A.I. generated image. Read my review of both the image generation service and the text based A.I. question service via my blog. The focus of my review was in fact the Great Gray Owl, which I am lucky enough to see quite often in northern Minnesota where I am a volunteer naturalist at Sax-Zim Bog.

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In my review, I forgot to point out that students are AI-generating some of their work for college or university. In fact, I would rather advise them to the PapersOwl: 你的英文essay 代 写, 留学生代写论文 site, where professional authors who are specialists in ghostwriting in English will write work better than any AI. There you can get inexpensive good work that will be unique and written very competently.

Great review, thanks for sharing. It will be interesting to look at the results of the same manipulations in a few years, to see how much the generation of such photographs will improve.