I've got a lot of mixed feelings about AI. It's the hottest thing since the last one - Bitcoin - which I still don't "get" the hype about. Perhaps it's a professional critique - as an accountant, numbers are pretty black and white. AI isn't a shade of grey - it's a hot pink. It makes stuff up and can't be blindly trusted.
I've used AI before, and it's a good grammar checker/rewriter, but the errors still require enough review, so I prefer using a more walled-garden approach of Grammarly.
Despite my concerns, a friend sent me an AI posting of my dog this week, and it was the coolest thing I've seen in a while. I'm not sure which version of AI they used, or what the prompts were to get there, but my dog as an action figure was cute as heck.
Once I saw that, I had to try the other popular trend—having my dog present as a human. I fed that into several different AI models, and the results were all similar.
I used this photo as "training data," and here are the various responses.
Coco as a human by ChatGPT
Another version, with slightly different prompts
A Grok interpretation of Coco as a human
And, another Grok version…slightly different prompts
Despite all the hype and substantial investment dollars, my use case for AI is a toy that generates pictures of my dog. I still don't get the hype yet.