"Gaze upon the triptych, a
cryptic labyrinth from Point Lobos,
Where the past is the future
in a dance never-ceasing.
Waves shatter against stoic stone,
Waves shatter against stoic stone,
immortalizing the ephemeral.
It's not a mirror of the world as is,
But a mirror of the world
as it can be imagined to be.
It's not a mirror of the world as is,
But a mirror of the world
as it can be imagined to be.
Three panels like the infinite
rooms of Babel's library,
Each a moment, a universe,
within and outside of time.
The eternal tide, a metaphysical echo,
a Zahir in the mind. A testament
to reality's nonlinear discourse,
Each snapshot, a universe, an
aleph of unending possibilities.
aleph of unending possibilities.
A dance of ideas, where
the sea isn't merely sea.
A reality refracted, multiplied,
eternally forking paths.
In the serene mirror of the
triptych, we are the dreamt.
Drawing the depths of existence,
asking, "Who dreams the dreamer?"
Behold, we are all, the other, in this
world as it can be imagined to be."
asking, "Who dreams the dreamer?"
Behold, we are all, the other, in this
world as it can be imagined to be."
- ChatGPT (30 Nov 2022 - )
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence
Prompt = "You are a photographer, poet and philosopher, with a penchant for metaphysics and stories by Jorge Luis Borges. You have stitched together a triptych of long exposure images taken at sunset at Point Lobos, California. Write a prose poem in the style of Borges that describes the mystery this triptych is meant to evoke in a viewers mind's eye. Limit the number of stanzas to three, with 5 lines each. Be creative."
4 comments:
That is pretty impressive.
Did you have to coach it through multiple iterations?
It seems to have a good understanding of both the physical ocean and rocks at a beach
as well as a poetic understanding of them
thanks for sharing
Mike J.
hi mike…this was the best of three tries - bit all were “interesting”… this also *barely* scratches the surface of what large language models can do …take a look at the link to the paper i gave. i rarely explicitly entwine my “day job” interests wirh my photography, but in this case i couldn’t help myself 😊
It’s remarkable — and unsettling — how far and how fast AI has advanced in the past 6 months. I’ve read articles about writers suddenly pushed out of work. And I started seeing a proliferation of AI-generated imagery on social media before I quit the platforms a few months ago. As with any technological leap, there are advantages and disadvantages… and another side of the coin.
Paul - photographers are far from immune - take a look at Photoshop's new "AI fill" (https://petapixel.com/2023/05/23/photoshops-new-generative-fill-uses-ai-to-expand-or-change-photos/)... While Ansel would have loved Photoshop's dodge/burn tools (he was always in tune with the latest technological developments of his time, but died too soon to appreciate the "digital" tools), I suspect he would have soured - deeply - on the latest "let the AI do just about everything for you" mentality. I suppose I need to write a blog on this; a long and thoughtful one, since I have one foot in one domain (photography) and another in the other (AI).
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