Quite a dramatic beginning there, eh?

As many of you might know, I spend a lot of time on the internet. I read a lot. I examine a lot. I absorb knowledge like a sponge, working very hard to try to figure out the world in which I live. And as I wake up on this Saturday morning, the world feels a little grim.

This is not because of the war in Ukraine (which is an awful thing) or climate change (which is just as awful), or even because the Oklahoma City Thunder still don’t have a winning record (I’m tired of tanking). No, I say this because I have seen the end of human existence and it is called Artificial Intelligence.

Some of you might recall a few months back, I wrote a letter talking about Dall-E and how open source AI bots can now make incredible artwork from just text generation. Well, let us now revisit the topic a few months later and see that this thing has gotten exponentially better. Want to see how good? Well, watch this little tutorial that I was working with last night. I decided to try this for myself, so I began with this picture (which some of you may have seen before):