James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

“For only eleventy skillion dollars we can design an artificial intelligence for you that can solve people’s problems for them Mr Zuckerberg. Oh, and it won’t know how many ears a rabbit has.”

This is an interesting book, about the US ambassador to Japan in the pre-war years. Read it if you want to be disturbed by a lot of eerie parallels between Japanese politics pre-WW 2 and US politics today.

The thing I like about AI is the hyper realistic quality. I mean who can tell this from a normal image made by someone with an actual brain?

After billions of dollars shot AI can’t figure out how many legs an ostrich has. I don’t think we need to worry about a Skynet scenario just yet.

Artificial “intelligence”: years of research, billions of dollars, can’t figure out how many wings a goose should have.

AI: multibillion dollar smart technology that will take over many jobs
Also AI: can’t figure out how many legs are on an antelope.

When I wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble getting back to sleep, I like to make AI draw pictures of hybrid chicken donkeys eating lemon meringue pies while riding a bus with hats made out of horses, glasses made of hubcaps, and flying orangutans and pigs in the background.

I stand corrected. There is a practical application for AI.

Wake up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep? Why not waste a lot of electricity making Facebook’s AI thingy draw whatever the hell this is?

I used to think that AI was a useless technology. But then I discovered that you can tell it to draw a picture of a fish marrying a watering can, and now I feel that a void in my life has been filled.

I don’t know where the cat is, but I bet it’s lookin’ groovy.

Visiting Montreal today. I didn’t know they had one of those Stargates.

#Halifax Central Library. This place is amazing! Why can’t we have one of these #Ottawa?

Jennifer The Safety Bird says “Don’t touch this you dumb MF”.

Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to photograph the evidence.

Lake St Frances, from Glengarry Park near Lancaster, Ontario.

I can't say the same about the rest of the city.

Canada, land of contrasts.

Okay, who knows what this famous spot is called? #photography

River Liffey in #Dublin (I think, I took this a couple years ago, in The Before Time). #Photography