This week’s selection is “The AI Cookbook: A taste of the future” by Paolo Rosson.
AI is something everyone’s heard about, but few realize the impact this technology will very soon have on our everyday life. I’ve been playing with some of the publicly available tools provided by AI researchers, and they’ve blown my mind with the possibilities that may become true very, very soon.
The change has been to pour zillions of content items found on the Internet into complex machine learning algorithms to train these new software tools. Once trained, they can generate all sorts of corresponding digital artifacts.
One popular tool is GPT-3, a text model. Basically you give it a sentence and it generates extraordinarily correct responses, and it can even churn out pages of text on subjects with a simple request.
Recently there have also been new developments in image processing, where “text to image” tools can automatically create literally any imaginable image with incredible and eerie accuracy.
After using some of these tools, I’m convinced this technology will eventually be applied to the 3D print space, specifically for designing 3D objects. Today it takes trained experts to use sophisticated and expensive CAD tools to create 3D models for printing, but tomorrow we might be able to just “ask” for a model of something and it could be generated. We’re very far away from this today, but it’s definitely coming.
In the meantime, I wanted to provide a bit of a demonstration of this technology by means of a fascinating book that’s just come out: The AI Cookbook.
It’s not a “cookbook” in the sense of having a pile of software segments you can piece together to do programming. No, it’s actually a cookbook. You know, for food?
The catch is that ALL of the recipes AND images have been completely generated by AI tools, including GPT-3, mentioned above. The book contains dozens of actual, usable recipes that were created by a disembodied AI. No, they won’t poison you if you try them.
Once you read through this book I think you may understand far more deeply where we are all headed. Soon, tools like this will be available for multiple complex disciplines. Anyone will have the power of an expert with these tools.
One of them will surely be the ability to design complex 3D models.
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