Civil War Brought to Life: Confederate Soldiers of 1863 - YouTube

I am amazed by what AI can do.
Even if it is just a short video
It brings the subjects to life, as opposed to the stiff photographs

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Ignorance on the part of the AI, which does not know that they were sitting with an apparatus behind them which braced the head and held them still for the long exposure.

Please correct me anyone!

Thanks for linking this. It is cool.
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AI is truly amazing. Can be scary and creepy, too.

Read an article about a young woman who used AI to resurrect the voice of her dead husband from her saved voicemail recordings and held conversations with him/it. Creeped her out, so she stopped/deleted it. Or, another way AI can be used in a negative way, the cruel use of it to generate pornographic images of young school girls which are then disseminated among their classmates.

But what a lot of wonderful things it can do, too!

Personally, I like to use AI chatbots to tell me what the heck medical diagnostic reports mean. And recently, when some guys tried to sell me on adding solar panels to my roof using a "solar loan," the repayment of which would be in the amount of my current electric bill, I was intrigued and asked ChatGPT to look into it. It generated a seven-page, well written and well documented report on how these "solar loans" work in Oregon, citing its sources. (That said, I did not look up the sources. I've read that sometimes AI will make up sources.)

Heady stuff.

I do wonder how things are gonna turn out for society as AI improves and we humans increasingly dumb down, buried in our respective alternate realty silos.

I read a week or so ago that 30% of the US population has trouble reading. Saw another article recently written by a college professor who said many of today's college students have difficulty reading books because they are accustomed to consuming information in much shorter bursts from social media like TikTok...

My gf teaches biology and genetics at university and she would concur with both paragraphs above. Many of her students have short attention spans and are flummoxed when expected to delve into complex, detailed papers or processes, etc. One was aghast recently when they discovered that an exam question wasn't the same as the samples she had provided in class, but required them to learn and apply the process demonstrated by the examples

What was the source of your article? I'll pass it on to her.

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OBH, I think I am referring to the third reference, in the Atlantic, below. The first reference, from the WaPo, is from 2014.

Thanks. I'll pass that on
First article was from 2014? Well now, that's about when my gf noted the decline in attention span, due to that generation having smart phones etc. !

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Dave? Dave?

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I understand the market for this, but what's next?
A recreation of O'Sullivan's Battle of Gettysburg photos of the aftermath?
These people lived, loved, fought and died. Leave them at peace instead of resurrecting them for entertainment purposes.

After so much promise for good, television and the internet has filled homes with filth, family degrading propaganda, and perversion. AI will do it even more effectively, and we Americans will accept it with open arms.

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