{"id":7927,"date":"2022-09-26T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antique-chinese-furniture.com\/blog\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:13:27","slug":"when-androids-dream-an-experiment-in-using-ai-to-imagine-antiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antique-chinese-furniture.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/26\/when-androids-dream-an-experiment-in-using-ai-to-imagine-antiques\/","title":{"rendered":"When Androids dream: An experiment in using AI to imagine “antiques.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the exception of screenshots\/training images, every<\/span> image you see here was generated by artificial intelligence.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Nothing is real.
Reality is a dream.
Everything is imagined.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A 17th century, Chinese antique  black lacquer trunk, edges gilded in delicate gold leaf, slightly worn and distressed, with intricate gold paintings on the surface, resting on a matching hand forged iron stand. <\/h4>\n

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This stunning image of a tram crisscrossing its way across a neon lit cityscape evokes imagery of the dark, dystopian world of sci-fi thrillers. Neon lights reflecting on the wet pavement as fares huddle off to the side, awaiting their ride. You can almost hear the dull hum of the city, smell the rain, and perhaps even catch a shiver of the cooler temperatures. And yet, none of this is real. This city does not exist. The trams are merely an echo taken from the dreams of an algorithm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An AI generated image of a tram crossing a city at night time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The majority of us probably think of AI in the context of movies; i.e. the type in which the planet is destroyed by some nefarious software entity that has suddenly become sentient. And who knows? Perhaps our future holds such terrors. Or perhaps not. Only time will tell. But in present day, artificial intelligence is a bit more mundane. From AI powered software designed to discover new medicines, to polite but annoying customer service chat bots, to complex algorithms used to model weather patterns, AI is already here. And here to stay. So it is no surprise that that AI has also arrived in the field of art, graphics, design, and illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are AI image generators?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI image generators are machine learning, text-to-image modelers which generate digital images from a natural language descriptions. In simple terms, this means it creates an image from a text description you provide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are quite a few out there at the moment, with names like “Stable Diffusion<\/a>” or “Midjourney<\/a>,” and needless to say, each comes with its own own strengths and weaknesses in terms of its capabilities and resource requirements in order to create images. Some work with realistic images better. Others excel at graphics and producing logos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless the results are often striking and impressive, to say the very least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n