Pondering AI
14th April 2026
AI is well and truly here; for all that the Tales of the Forty-Fourth Century are cautionary tales of a post AI/ post Robot world, I've still taken a look to see what it can do. I set it a simple task, take a pen and ink drawing of Angela Landau and turn that into a photorealistic image. I prompted it for her colouring, uniform material, and name badge, but it came up with a spacecraft background all on its own and she has the right number of fingers!
See below the image used for the prompt and the result after just one edit:
Original pen & ink drawing
AI generated image (using Firefly Gemini)
Fourth image, when I prompted it to show her full height and correct an error that crept in with her name badge - didn't like this version as much, but with a limit on credits it was worth the experiment.
Used up all my free credits, but it makes me wonder about buying some more.
See below the image used for the prompt and the result after just one edit:
Original pen & ink drawing
AI generated image (using Firefly Gemini)
Fourth image, when I prompted it to show her full height and correct an error that crept in with her name badge - didn't like this version as much, but with a limit on credits it was worth the experiment.
Used up all my free credits, but it makes me wonder about buying some more.