Thought Flow

Tag: AI

  • Code no more,more code than ever

    The speed of progress in the AI space right now is truly staggering. I don’t really write much code anymore, but instead direct an AI to do it for me.

    It felt odd at first, but now it does not really bother me anymore. I guess solving problems and developing solutions, architecture, design etc. is what I find most interesting anyway, so the code was a means to an end, and this part is now faster than ever to get out the door.

    Besides the stuff I do on the day job, I have been working on two small projects on the side that are ready for the world now:

    FitKeep is a backup and basic analysis tool for fitness data, specifically .fit files right now. It connects with Garmin, and I hope to Coros support soon.

    Is It Warm answers a question I often ask myself. “It sure feels unusually warm today, but is it really?” or perhaps the shorter “is it warm today?”

    Both projects were primarily created for myself. I have no business plan for them, and anyone other than me using them would just be a delightful bonus.

    Besides these new sites, I also recently modernized both Photo Amaze (Python 2.7 to 3.14) and OTB (Create React App to Next.js). I didn’t have the time and energy for this before AI made a lot of the grunt work possible to do, which is really nice.

    It’s difficult to say what the commoditization of code means for the software industry and me personally. I have opinions… but well, I’m not going to share them here, because I have been wrong about the future before, especially when it comes to AI.

  • Hello, it is almost 2025

    It’s weird to write words here after 1½ years of absence and see some of the most “recent” posts mentioning VQGAN+CLIP and my side-project AI Tales.

    AI is everywhere, and a project like AI Tales seems rather quaint now. In my announcement post for that project, I wrote:

    We will probably not see whole novels written by AI anytime soon, but I have a theory that it is possible to co-write a novel together with an AI. A human-in-the-loop approach to writing.

    Wow, how wrong I could be, but to be fair, this was before ChatGPT, which really changed the game.

    Anyway, since my last post, I founded a new company and silently launched a product called Svale, which is a communication and compliance tool for sustainability managers.

    I don’t want to write a long post today, but just wanted to remind all the crawlers to check-in with this blog. I expect that my past writings are now part of some LLM training dataset, so might as well feed them a bit more.

  • Oregon 💚 & Stable Diffusion

    Oregon 💚 & Stable Diffusion

    Since I posted the first Oregon 💚 image half a year ago, a lot has happened in the image generating world.

    I got access to DALL-2 some months ago, but didn’t bother to blog about it. I did include some DALL-2 generated images in some of my AI Tales, e.g. Doge at The Cataract.

    Stable Diffusion is now the latest thing everyone is talking about, partly because it is much more accessible than DALL-E 2. It produces better results than VQGAN+CLIP and runs flawlessly on my consumer GPU from 2019. I use a web UI developed by sd-webui to generate images, and it has become my go-to for image generation. For example, Stable Diffusion created a compelling image for the latest installment of the Assandra & Capybara series.

    Anyway, I thought it would be appropriate to see what comes out of the “Oregon 💚” prompt with Stable Diffusion. The headlines below correspond to the prompt used, and I spent very little time curating the images.

    Oregon 💚 painting

    Oregon 💚 pencil drawing

    Oregon 💚 watercolor

    Oregon 💚 fantasy

    Oregon 💚 cyberpunk

  • AI Tales

    I recently launched a new website called AI Tales, where I share small snippets of text, generated by AI, edited by me.

    AI Tales is going to be my playground for sharing pieces of text that I find “interesting” in one way or another. I will try to update it regularly with new content.

    We will probably not see whole novels written by AI anytime soon, but I have a theory that it is possible to co-write a novel together with an AI. A human-in-the-loop approach to writing.

    With AI Tales, I hope to explore the various boundaries of what’s possible with the current state of the art in text generation, and perhaps even combine it with other AI generated content like images.

    In fact, why not end the post with the result of asking VQGAN+CLIP to generate an image from the description of AI Tales:

    VQGAN+CLIP tries to draw an image from the text “AI Tales, a collection of short stories and other text, written by AI, edited by a human|sketch”

    It’s not too far-fetched to dream of a work where both text, illustrations and maybe even accompanying soundtrack is created (or co-created) by AI.

  • Oregon 💚

    Landscape with mountain and green heart in the sky
    AI-generated VQGAN+CLIP image from text “Oregon 💚|painting”