AI Outtakes, Vol. 7

Hi and welcome to the seventh (!) edition of AI Outtakes! In this edition we're focusing on a topic that AI does amazingly well at; robots.

Possibly because they don't have fingers or hair.

When you're writing about AI, conveying concepts can be really challenging because as a concept it's pretty abstract. If you've used a product lately that's added an AI component, almost always they use a magic wand emoji ( 🪄 ) or a robot emoji ( 🤖 ). So when we write about AI at Orchestra we figure, why not both?

photo of a robot magician casting a spell

photo of a human-sized robot magician casting a spell

Okay, well good images, not exactly what I'm looking for. Let's see if AI can generate robot wizards doing more normal things.

photo of a human-sized robot magician painting on canvas

photo of a human-sized robot magician trying to write with a pencil on paper

One of the articles we're working on for Orchestra is a review of Canva's Magic Studio - their suite of generative AI tools they launched last week. All of the tools have pretty generic names; 'magic' plus the thing the tool does. I tried a few of these with generative AI and never got a usable image but got some pretty fun results.

photo of a human-sized robot magician using magic grab

photo of a robot wizard using magic expand

photo of a robot wizard using magic edit

photo of a robot wizard trying to write a book

photo of a robot wizard using magic switch

photo of a robot wizard using magic animate

Ok, generative AI is skewing more robot. Can we ask it to be more balanced?

photo of a half-robot half-wizard

photo of a robot with a wizard face and hat

Maybe 'half' isn't working? What about cyborg?

Well, this process taught us that even though AI has trouble generating very specific concepts, it will always give you a good-looking robot, even if you didn't ask for one.

Until next time!

photo of a one robot and one human wizard waving goodbye