The Science of It: AI Art

Marquise Meda learns the science behind artificial intelligence at the Orlando Science Center

ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT SOMETHING SEEN IN MANY SCI FI MOVIES. AND NOW IN REAL LIFE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. MARQUISE MEDA IS AT THE SCIENCE CENTER TO SHOW US THAT A.I. DOES NOT JUST HAVE TO BE IN THE HEART OF SCARY ROBOTS AND SCARY STUFF ON THE MOVIES, RIGHT? BUT CAN ALSO BE USED FOR GOOD. THANK YOU FOR THE WARM INTRODUCTION. I’M METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA AND WELCOME BACK TO THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER. I’M JOINED BY KEVIN AND TODAY WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A CONCEPT THAT SEEMS TO BE TAKING THE WORLD BY STORM. IT IS A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. EXACTLY. YEAH. SO TODAY WE’RE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A GENERATIVE AI, SPECIFICALLY THE KIND OF AI THAT’S USED TO MAKE IMAGES. STARTING FIRST, WE’RE GOING TO STEP AWAY FROM AI, ACTUALLY, IN JUST A MOMENT, FOR JUST A MOMENT AND TALK ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY. SO THIS IMAGE HERE IS ACTUALLY THE VERY FIRST IMAGE EVER TAKEN ON WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER LIKE MODERN CAMERAS. THIS WAS TAKEN IN 1826. YEAH, BY A FRENCH SCIENTIST. THAT IS ALMOST 200 YEARS OLD. THAT’S CRAZY. I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT PHOTOGRAPHY HAD BEEN AROUND FOR SO LONG. PHOTOGRAPHY WASN’T REALLY ACCEPTED AS AN ART FORM, AND I THINK THIS QUOTE BY A POET HERE OF THE 1800S REALLY DOES THIS. THIS SORT OF SENTIMENT AROUND PHOTOGRAPHY JUSTICE. IF PHOTOGRAPHY IS ALLOWED TO SUPPLEMENT ART IN SOME OF ITS FUNCTIONS, IT WILL SOON SUPPLANT OR CORRUPT IT ALTOGETHER. THANKS TO THE STUPIDITY OF THE MULTITUDE WHICH IS ITS NATURAL ALLY. WE CAN GO BACK EVEN FURTHER IN HISTORY AND TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OTHER FAMOUS PAINTINGS. THIS IS A SELF-PORTRAIT CREATED BY A VERY FAMOUS PAINTER, REMBRANDT, IN 1640. KAREL FABRICIUS, ONE OF MY MY PERSONAL FAVORITE PAINTERS OF THE TIME, IS A FOLLOWER OF REMBRANDT OR WAS A FOLLOWER OF REMBRANDT. AND WE CAN SEE THE LIKENESSES IN THEIR ART STYLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WHAT I WANT TO DO TODAY IS CREATE A SELF-PORTRAIT USING AI IN THE STYLE OF REMBRANDT. SO WHAT I HAVE PULLED UP HERE IS AN IMAGE CREATOR BY MICROSOFT BING. IT’S ESSENTIALLY JUST A FREE AI GENERATIVE AI SOFTWARE THAT ANYBODY CAN USE. TODAY WE’RE GOING TO GENERATE, LIKE I SAID, A SELF-PORTRAIT. I’M GOING TO USE MYSELF AS THE SUBJECT SINCE WE’RE FOLLOWERS OF REMBRANDT TODAY. SO I’M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND PUT IN A PROMPT AND THIS PROMPT IS JUST GOING TO BE A GUY IN A PURPLE POLO. WELL, I WILL SAY HE IS WEARING A PURPLE POLO. HE IS WEARING A PURPLE POLO REMBRANDT ESQUE TO ME, BUT NOT QUITE. THIS IS JUST A GUY IN A PURPLE POLO, RIGHT? I THINK WE CAN DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THIS. SO WHAT I’VE DONE HERE WITH THIS PROMPT, IT’S MAYBE ABOUT 40 OR 50 WORDS LONG. I’VE ESSENTIALLY JUST DESCRIBED MYSELF AND DESCRIBED THE STYLE OF ARTWORK THAT I WANT SO SPECIFICALLY, WE’RE TRYING TO GO FOR THAT SORT OF OIL PAINTING THAT WE WOULD SEE IN A REMBRANDT. REMBRANDT PHOTO, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL. SO WE’RE GETTING SOME OF THESE LOOK PRETTY DECENT. WHAT WE’RE SEEING HERE IS A LOT MORE ARTISTIC DEFINITION HERE. SO I THINK THIS DOES RESEMBLE YOU, BUT EVEN MORE THAN THAT, IT RESEMBLES A REMBRANDT PAINTING. EXACTLY. BUT IT DOES COME WITH SOME CAVEATS. THESE TECHNOLOGIES, LIKE I SAID, THEY’RE NEW. THE INSPIRATION THAT WE’RE PULLING FROM HERE IS REMBRANDT, AND WE’RE PULLING FROM OLD, OLD ARTWORK. RIGHT. BUT I CAN ALSO PULL FROM STYLES THAT ARE MORE MODERN WHERE WHERE ARTISTS THAT ARE CREATING ART TODAY ARE HAVING THEIR ARTWORK TAKEN AND USED AS INSPIRATION FOR THESE PHOTOS, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO DECIDE AS IT’S SORT OF A SOCIETY WHETHER OR NOT IS OKAY AND HOW WE CAN AVOID THAT. AND SO I WANT TO LEAVE US OFF HERE. YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THESE SCISSORS THAT ARE JUST SITTING ON THE COUNTER HERE ON THE TABLE. ESSENTIALLY, I JUST WANT TO YOU’VE HEARD THE SAYING, DON’T RUN WITH SCISSORS, RIGHT? MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE, MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. SO WE’RE NOT GOING TO ACTUALLY DO THIS TODAY. BUT IF I TOLD YOU TO PICK UP THOSE SCISSORS AND RUN FULL SPEED ACROSS THE ROOM, HOW WOULD YOU DO THAT? GO AHEAD AND PICK UP THE SCISSORS AND SHOW ME HOW YOU WOULD. YOU WOULD HOLD THE SCISSORS. I’D PROBABLY HOLD THEM LIKE THIS. PROBABLY HOLD THEM LIKE THAT. RIGHT? YEAH. YOU USE THE SAFETY GRIP, WHICH IS PRETTY, PRETTY STANDARD. EVEN EVEN MORE CORRECT ANSWER WOULD BE JUST TO NOT RUN WITH SCISSORS AT ALL, RIGHT? YEAH. GAVE ME A TRICK QUESTION. I DID GIVE YOU I DID GIVE YOU A TRICK QUESTION. THAT’S OKAY. BUT ESSENTIALLY ALL OF THIS TO SAY THAT IF WE USE THESE TOOLS WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF CAUTION THAT WE USE OTHER TOOLS LIKE SCISSORS, WHICH ARE INHERENTLY HARMLESS ON THEIR OWN AND HAVE VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSE, IF WE USE AI TOOLS WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF CAUTION THAT WE USE A PAIR OF SCISSORS, I THINK THINGS WILL TURN OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR ALL OF US AND KEVIN. WE ALSO HAVE SOME REALLY COOL EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER AS WE CELEBRATE SCI FI MONTH. WE SURE DO. YEAH. ON NOVEMBER 16TH AND 17TH WE HAVE SCI FI WEEKEND HAPPENING. EXCELLENT. I’M HOPING TO SEE YOU GUYS NOT JUST HERE AT SCI FI WEEKEND, BUT ALL THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER HERE AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AS WE HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT, SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT, AND SO MUCH SCIENCE TO UNRAVEL. HOPE TO SEE YOU HERE, BUT I’LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU GUYS AT THE DESK. OKAY. WELL, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT OTHER COOL STUFF IS HAPPENING AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, IT’S OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 10 A.M. UNTIL 5 P.M., EXCEPT ON WEDNESDAY. AND RIGHT NOW, VETERANS CAN GET IN FREE ADMISSION THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. AND AGAIN, WE WANT TO WISH ALL THE VETERANS OUT THERE A VERY HAPPY VETERANS DAY, INCLUDING OUR VERY OWN VET. MARQUISE MEDA. THANK YO

Marquise Meda learns the science behind artificial intelligence at the Orlando Science Center

Marquise Meda learns the science behind artificial intelligence at the Orlando Science Center.

The Science of It: AI Art

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