Chapter #62: Artificial Intelligence Is Here So Why Not Use It?

 My need for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in these days of retirement has little to no use in my everyday life, however I believe I would have been a grand user of it while I was still working. During my working years I have created many work flow processes, manuals, policies, etc. where AI would have been a great tool for me and a huge time saver.

While I have used it for real value recently while working on my classic car and it was a real benefit to me, but now the main engine of use for me is ChatGPT and it is a real whiz at creating entertaining images from old photos and adding in a few interesting prompts.

It may be considered by some as a waste of time, but while it is fun and novel for the moment, I am about out of ideas for new pictures. A couple of the following are created by Jacob and they make me laugh.

I thought I would share a few of them in this episode. 

This photo is me at 17 years old shaking hands with my 68 year old self. The younger picture was taken my senior year in high school in 1975.

This next picture is a picture of me in 6th grade in 1969 hanging out with old man me. I thought it to be an interesting concept photo.

Since I liked my picture above so much, I thought it only fair to include a similar photo with Carol Ann and her younger self and I have to say that I love it.

This next picture is my oldest son at about the same age of his oldest son playing with cars on the floor.

This next photo was created by my youngest son as a parody to a real life event. About a year ago a local drive in burger joint had a summer special of corny dogs for .99 cents each. They were pretty small and I did not think that two of them would be enough so I ordered four. That sin of gluttony caught up to me and I had a stomach ache for the rest of the day. Thanks for picture son, even if it was at my expense, I deserve it.

Jacob and I are both fans of The Lord of the Ring trilogy and he created this photo of us fighting the battle of middle earth, in our cycling kits. Funny and another example of the crazy stuff you can come up with using AI.

After sharing some of these unique and silly artificial photos with my sister, she asked me to make one of her younger self telling her older self to not get old and fat. This is what I created for her. She approved.

I created this picture from a picture of me playing high school football and me as an old man cheering me on from the side line.

With the picture above as inspiration, Jacob creates a couple of versions of the original photo from the fall of 1974. He made a very novel and realistic photo from the idea I originally had. I appreciate it, though I never played in a game like this, but that would have been fun.

As I close this chapter I will include a silly photo that I created using my two dogs. Granted these two dogs are lazy and some days the most excitement they get is when I come outside to pet them and feed them. I thought this fit their personalities. Chief and Trixie say cheers!