There were several very interesting comments made about my very recent blog post entitled 'More experiments with ChatGPT' ... and they set me thinking about what other experiments I could try using ChatGPT.
To date, I have asked ChatGPT to:
- Create images of people (including myself) in various historical garb
- Create maps for several of my imagi-nations
- Design ironclads and early pre-dreadnought battleships
- Write portable Wargame rules for Colonial & early 20th Century Warfare and the Chaco War
- Create Victorian-style line drawings based on photographs of people and wargames
My latest experiment was to take a Victorian-era illustration and ask ChatGPT to create photographs of wargame figures based on them. The results were as follows:
A line drawing of the Union American Civil War unit, the Garibaldi Guard.
A ChatGPT generated photograph of the Garibaldi Guard as a unit of wargame figures.
I was impressed by the results produced by ChatGPT and decided to repeat the experiment using the image that was on the cover of the latest issue of the Victorian Military Society's publication, SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN.
The original coloured illustration used on the cover of latest issue of SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN.
ChatGPT's rendition of the above cover illustration as wargame figures.
Frankly, I think that the final illustration is extremely good ... and I also think that many people would not be able to tell the difference between it and a real photograph of a group of painted wargame figures.
These recent experiments have certainly given me pause for thought ... and show just how sophisticated AI software that anyone can use has become.
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I mentioned to someone at work that AI has improved tremendously in the past year. A year ago, six fingers and three arms were fairly common.
ReplyDeleteKevin,
DeleteThat seems to be a common trait with anything IT-related. I can remember when processing power and memory seemed to double every month.
I have yet to experiment with animation … but I suspect that will be the next ‘leap forward’.
All the best,
Bob
Bob, those pictures are very good - better than I had anticipated. Perhaps they could provide a way of illustrating wargame scenario articles when one does not possess suitable figures of one's own for the purpose? Or when one's own figures are too small or not sufficiently well painted to photograph well?
ReplyDeleteBest wishes, Arthur
Arthur1815 (Arthur),
DeleteI agree about the quality of the illustrations ChatGPT created. They were far better than I expected.
The more I use it, the more I can see its possibilities of AI. I thought that the character images I created for the latest DEVELOPING THE PORTABLE IRONCLAD WARGAME book were good ... but I suspect that in the near future, I'll be able to produce even more realistic photo-quality images.
When the AI software reaches that level of quality, it should be possible to enhance photographs of toy soldiers so that they look very realistic.
All the best,
Bob
BOB,
ReplyDeleteWhat is ChatGPT ? Regards. KEV.
Kevin Robertson (Kev),
DeleteChatGPT is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbot application that can be downloaded for free (with restricted use) or monthly subscription (with unlimited use). You can set it tasks to create images or text by giving it a detailed description of what you want. It then searches online resources which the program then uses to create a result.
For a more detailed explanation look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
All the best,
Bob
That's a rabbit hole I haven't gone down yet, but it looks like something worth taking a look at. Too bad we can't use it to actually paint our miniatures. 😁
ReplyDeleteMark Cordone,
DeleteI think that it is something worth experimenting with. As to painting our miniatures for us ... well, its only a matter of time before AI-controlled figure printing will produce multi-coloured figures to order ... as Daniel Weitz has recently shown on the PW Facebook page.
All the best,
Bob
Those did turn out nice.
DeleteMark Cordone,
DeleteThey certainly were!
All the best,
Bob