[This is the start of a 3 day long series about using this specific AI tool]
In case you didn’t know, not all AI Robots are created equally.
As we showed you in some previous posts about photo renderings, the generated results can be very different from what you’d expect you’d get, or want.
These AI tools use a few assorted “processing engines” to create whatever it is you ask of them (images, lists, word context, etc.).
Certain engines have better access to previously done material than others.
All of these tools always use existing materials (artwork, photos, stories, etc) as a starting basis for the new creations they will be making.
Then they make modifications to the old stuff to produce the new stuff.
This makes the newly created product an original version, based on, and modified for, the specifics (terms, keywords: “prompts”) that you ask of it.
Today we are playing with an AI-powered co-pilot that is suppose to be one of the better tools to use.
[which depending on exactly what you’re using it for, should be. For our purposes though, we asking it to make unreal things, so we don’t expect “realistic” images, based on the fantasy themes we are feeding it]
It uses the “openai gpt-4” system for creation.
To access it, use the chatbot in the edge browser.
Hit the chatbot button,
then you can enter your prompt into the text box at the bottom for whatever you desire to be done/made.
[note that this AI can be accessed from other web browsers but works much better and is a more integrated tool when using it on the Edge browser]
We inputted:
“give me a futuristic, artistic rendering of a Buick Grand National on the moon”
Here’s what it spit out:
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OK, so apparently you need to be signed in to do this.
This AI tool IS free to use, but you need a Microsoft account (MSN, Bing, Outlook, Hotmail, etc.).
Alrighty, we signed in, had to re-ask the prompt again, and it returned the following while we waited for the tool to produce the image.
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After about 30 seconds, it gave us 4 images, shown below.
It initially shows 4 thumbnails on the screen, and you can click on each to get a larger image, which are the ones we posted below. The rendering size is 1024×1024 for each.
(Image Creator from Designer, powered by “Dall-E 3”)
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OK, the first 2 images have a Grand Prix/Cutlass vibe to them on the front end of the vehicle.
The 3rd image has sort of an older Toronado / newer Camaro vibe to it.
The 4th pic looks like a 1968-ish Cutlass on the front of the car, with a station wagon theme on the rear of the car.
I guess we shouldn’t have said “futuristic” in the prompt.
Next attempt:
“give me a rendering of a 1987 Buick Grand National on the moon”
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Cool, the text response now knows what we are asking, based on the reply supplied. BUT, will the car actually look like a GN? See the 4 options it gave us below.
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Version 1 is closer on the front end (than the above ones are). From the doors and backwards, well…
(and if you closely, it seems like there’s a Firebird on the hood!)
Version 2 , much better on the front end, doors, and rear section. Those quarter windows though…
(and again, that hood bird..)
[but this image is probably the closest one from todays venture of all of them, in our opinion]
Version 3, I suppose Hurst Olds fans will dig this one! Plus it has an aerocoupe window in back.
Version 4, LOL! It’s a cool overall image (but the actual car not representative of the real vehicle). The front: 3 headlights on the driver side with 2 on the passenger side. The grille is sort of correct. The bumper lights, lol. 1982 style front corner marker lights. Again with the weird quarter windows, and hood bird. The rear section reminds us of an older (1970s) regal, and you can see the NASCAR-ish rear spoiler.
At the bottom of the page, after it generates these images, are pre-filled in suggestions / questions that you can follow up with.
We decided to give them a try.
“Can you make it look like the car is moving?”
Here’s the output for that:
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and the 4 new images:
(which didn’t simply just remake the last pics, but produced 4 totally new images)
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image 1: dual bumper lights on both sides? Dig the (incorrect, but kind of neat) Trans Am style front wheels flairs.
image 2: pretty close on the front nose, doors.
image 3: looks like a 1981-83 Buick (fender, doors, rear). But of course, the grille is wrong. The rear section does remind us of a Gbody Cutlass as well.
image 4: Back to the strange quarter windows. And fender vents? Check out the bubble hood scoop too! The overall rest of the Gbody Regal, not horrible.
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OK, that’s enough playing with this AI image generator.
But DO come back tomorrow, as this story continues…
We’re going to ask this same AI bot to tell us HOW the Buick Grand National got ON the moon in the first place!
Should be an interesting and funny story!
Stay tuned so you don’t miss it!
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As always, know the Basic Info YOU NEED to know for ALL of these “AI” sites/apps/programs. The warnings and notices. Find this info in a past post about this AI subject.
For THIS AI BOT:
Personal use is ok, NO commercial use.
If you read the terms generated by Bing: “ Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Microsoft Services Agreement, and our Content Policy, you may use Creations outside of the Online Services for any legal personal, non-commercial purpose.”
MEANING: NO making things and then selling them.
As far as we can tell, only you & the AI actually see what you are working on (and have generated). The material is not shared online to others. (but realize it IS probably stored in Microsoft’s database somewhere)
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