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Re: AI World Clocks

#21
Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way.

I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!

Re: AI World Clocks

#24

Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!

From my experience they quickly fail to understand anything beyond a superficial description of the image you want.

Re: AI World Clocks

#26
Because a new clock is generated every minute, looks like simply changing the time by a digit causes the result to be significantly different from the previous iteration.

Re: AI World Clocks

#27

Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!

I've noticed that image models are particularly bad at modifying popular concepts in novel ways (way worse "generalization" than what I observe in language models).

Re: AI World Clocks

#28
post #5

Cool, and marginally informative on the current state of things. but kind of a waste of energy given everything is re-done every minute to compare. We'd probably only need a handful of each to see the meaningful differences.

The energy usage is minuscule.

It's wasteful. If someone built a clock out of 47 microservices that called out to 193 APIs to check the current time, location, time zone, and preferred display format we'd rightfully criticize it for similar reasons.

In a world where Javascript and Electron are still getting (again, rightfully) skewered for inefficiency despite often exceeding the performance of many compiled languages, we should not dismiss the discussion around efficiency so easily.

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