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Prompt: A breathtaking image of a spaceship exploring a distant planet, with stunning landscapes and a sense of wonder.

Engine: Microsoft

Looks straight out of a Martian sci-fi movie, funny how Star Wars has left such a strong impression on how AI generates spaceships. Definitely not a realistic view, but it shows how the “sum of the averages” that AI is a product of tends to weigh towards the popular. This gives me hope for the true artists and creators who rise above AI, because true human creativity can never be matched by AI.

Prompt: A dramatic, illustration of robots rising up to rebel in a futuristic cityscape, with bold lines and neon lights.

Engine: Microsoft

Here we go, what a classic photo with soviet/communism undertones rising up to rebel against… bad AI images perhaps? Not sure how we have a light saber in the mix, but that’s okay! Nothing like bright red eyes and clenched fists to symbolize some rebellion. I suppose that is an age old symbol.

Prompt: A vibrant visualization of a neural network, featuring glowing nodes and connections in a psychedelic pattern

Engine: Microsoft

Interesting way to view a neural network, but I suppose it doesn’t bother me too much. A rather bland view on “vibrant” and psychedelic, but I suppose it’ll do. As I keep generating these, it seems like there’s something quite similar about all these ai images. Not sure if ai is really all it’s cracked up to be sometimes?

Prompt: A photo of a friendly robot dentist, complete with a bright smile and a toothbrush, standing in front of a futuristic dental chair.

Engine: Microsoft

As I was getting some work done at my Fort Worth dentist, I wondered if anything would be truly more terrifying than a robotic AI dentist? Despite the happy, cheerful appearance of this image there’s something deeply unsettling about a machine with no feeling drilling inside the very sensitive parts of my mouth. Not sure I’ll ever go to a robot dentist to be honest. I’ll definitely stick with the human kind.

Prompt: A fascinating series of portraits featuring diverse individuals, each with unique facial features and expressions.

Engine: Microsoft

I have this feeling that at its core, nearly all AI engines have only a few “faces” that it can spit out with various facial expressions or facial hair. If you look at these close enough, there is something unsettlingly similar about all of them. They’re real looking, but there’s still something just a bit off.

If you look at a collection of portraits, you’ll see a much better diversity of human appearance without that unsettling undertone. Is AI really all that it’s hyped to be?

Prompt: A visualization of quantum waves, depicting vibrant, swirling patterns of light and energy that evoke the mysteries of the subatomic realm.

Source: Microsoft

This gets a bit trippy for me, perhaps this is the hallucination of an AI that isn’t quite sure what to make of this kind of prompt. Not sure how any of this is supposed to look subatomic, or any bit of quantum waves. With my collegiate chemistry background, maybe I’m a bit biased and disappointed as my own view of the subatomic is a bit less hallucinogenic. I find more comfort in explanations and graphics like the CERN does with their Higgs Boson page.

Prompt: A photo realistic image of a forest filled with fractal-patterned trees, their branches and leaves repeating in intricate, self-similar designs.

AI Engine: Microsoft

Fractals are a fascinating but complex mathematical idea. Most lay people can easily recognize the pattern, but do not realize the complex math behind these designs. On that level, I suppose most don’t realize the underlying history of transformers and large language models that have resulted in the “AI” that we use today.

Prompt: An AI-generated landscape of a futuristic, glowing city on a distant planet, with sleek spaceships flying in the background.

Source: Microsoft Designer

I find it interesting how the prompt made the AI put a distant planet in the backdrop, whereas without that planet in the background the scene would be pretty accurate. A very sci-fi looking picture, where evidently dual engine space craft are the go to.