The joy of AI
Once you try a text-to-image program, the joy of artificial intelligence seems undeniable despite the many dangers that lie ahead.
For all the terrible stuff humanity has already done with artificial intelligence, there’s an undeniable awe to it that I haven’t felt since I first started tinkering with computers back in the ’80s, when I wrote my first “Hello World” program. Back then, there was a prompt in which you typed esoteric lines of code using BASIC. It felt magical to make things out of words made of electrons. Today, using a text-to-image synthesis AI app like Midjourney or Dall-E makes me feel like a kid playing sorcerer again.