[David9694]

Just wanted to share some of my collaborations with Copilot. 

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[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

We were told at school – literally a series of lesions given by a fish out of water PE teacher …

Sad that for so many PE is experienced as affliction. I agree that bad sports loaches are partly to blame though.

[David9694]

We were told at school –

We were told at school – literally a series of lesions given by a fish out of water PE teacher – that we’d have to develop leisure pursuits as computers would take over many of our future jobs. I guess the Payroll dept no longer comprises an army of clerks, but we mainly seemed to find other stuff to do. 

I think there’s 2 levels with this – so in real life, hiring a daily cleaner or hiring a daily dog walker.  One is paying someone else to do your menial stuff, the other is getting someone to live part of your actual life for you. 

There’s the AI powered novelty stuff (like I wanted AI to add a canoeist to the picture of an Anthony Gormley statue that stands midstream in a river that we were joking about a days or so ago, but it wouldn’t on safety grounds) and there’s something like having an AI Agent represent you at an online meeting – that will get hilarious if/when more than one person does it.  (I’m also thinking of the Family Guy episode featuring Bitch Stewie, an inferior clone). Or AI applies for jobs for you, another AI at the receiving end assesses applications. 

[Aluminium can]

The point of AI is to replace
The point of AI is to replace educated workers and remove the need for an educated population.

[ROOTminus1]

Really?! You post a dirge
Really?! You post a dirge quality AI generated meme in response to a discussion about AI slop being a race to the bottom of design?

It’s inconsistent, it’s bland, it’s a collosal waste of resource, and it actively harms the expected standard of quality for every task for which a specific base model AI *could* have a genuine use case.

[ROOTminus1]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

What it’s for doesn’t matter if everyone else has got it – we can’t afford to be left behind!

[URL=https://youtu.be/ybSzoLCCX-Y] We cannot allow there to be a mineshaft gap! [/URL]

[David9694]

I’ve had a polo shirt made

I’ve had a polo shirt made with an embroidered Reynolds 531 decal – not massively successful at what I imagine is entry level.  You can have Reynolds coffee mugs (not dishwasher proof, despite claims) and all sorts of other cycling things done as well – I’ve got a 531 mouse mat, for example.  

Manufacturing process https://wizardpins.com/en-gb/blogs/blog/how-are-enamel-pins-made-knowing-the-truth-will-help-your-pin-design?

see also https://www.shop.reynoldstubing.com/shop/accessories

[David9694]

It’s doing lots of novelty

It’s doing lots of novelty interactive stuff for people like me, and I can see some potential for it to use its processing power to help with tasks like “without going mad, do another check of these 200 scans (x-rays, CT, etc) for possible abnormalities”.

In my world if it could come back with a 90% right response to the command, “we need 250 appointments going in to the 2026 Outlook calendar for these five committees” it would have my interest.

[chrisonabike]

What it’s for doesn’t matter
What it’s for doesn’t matter if everyone else has got it – we can’t afford to be left behind!

[David9694]

Oh, that.

Oh, that.

[quiff]

What does it anticipate them

What does it anticipate them being made of? Some of these have the appearance of a metal badge but a perhaps impractical amount of design detail / colour.

On a similar theme, I have occasionally daydreamed about the design of my personal team jersey, including sponsors. I concluded they’d mostly be purveyors of junk food – perhaps with a printed burrito emerging from the centre pocket.       

[S.E.]

Even those who don’t have

Even those who don’t have much personal use will be force-fed!

In our face!

Too much money has been invested in this latest speculative bubble, it won’t just go away any time soon…

[chrisonabike]

I’ve a horrible feeling
I’ve a horrible feeling people will take sharing cute videos of AI generated polar bears over the real thing * every time…

* Starving or getting shot for being a threat or nuisance trying to find food in fairly poor remote villages most of us will never go to.

Actually, I’m not sure I’d appreciate the reality of polar bears roaming locally over the *idea* of them either. (Having to carry some kind of bear deterrent, looking over one’s shoulder, sometimes having cars or sheds dismantled, very occasionally losing someone…) I guess it does remind you that you are part of nature too, which might be positive overall.

Anyway that’s not a problem I face (nearby Edinburgh zoo is more in the penguins line of creature).

[mark1a]

ROOTminus1 wrote:

ROOTminus1 wrote:

Or you could design a badge yourself with purpose and intent and not perpetuate the AI shitshow?

Yeah but it’s not like M$ have had to take a 20 year lease to fire up and reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to feed Copilot is it? 

Oh wait 👀

[ROOTminus1]

Or you could design a badge
Or you could design a badge yourself with purpose and intent and not perpetuate the AI shitshow?

[David9694]

And finally for now, Swift

And finally for now, Swift Cycles. 

So if you make bikes, you need a brand/ identity for the product.  If you browse the H Lloyd website, ye olde high end bikes are branded (I) something Italian and exotic (ii) name of an old cycling pro (iii) yeoman frame builder (iv) the location of locality the bike is from, e.g. Raleigh Street, Nottingham; Carlton (v) some other abstract idea.

I fed Co pilot the images for Faith Street, Swift and Kingfisher.  It came up with the Spire Cycles design. It says it wants to be helpful with refining what it produces, e.g. typeface, colourway; it even offered to do fixing holes and to make a manufacturer’s proof. But all too often you try to correct or improve some aspect it either doesn’t do it, or it introduces a new fault.  Might try something a bit more obviously Scottish for Faith Street. 

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