AI is WEIRD: Part II

by | Friday, December 22, 2023

Note: The image above is an original design – showing “AI” embedded in the word “WEIRD”

Generative AI is weird… as I had written in my previous blog post, identifying some key characteristics I had described in a recent Keynote presentation. In the process of researching the post I stumbled across Janelle Shane’s website, quite appropriately titled AI Weirdness. The stuff she has been doing is just hilarious—not for nothing does her website bear the tagline A.I. Humorist. Seeing some of her experiments inspired me to start playing with DallE and seeing what it would come up with when asked to create educational illustration. The results are given below. In each case I offer the prompt that was given to Dall-E and the ensuing result(s), without commentary – because the images speak for themselves.

Long story short, professional illustrators are not going out of business anytime soon.








Note: This prompt was inspired by this amazing graphic created by John Manoogian III (via Wikipedia). As I said, professional illustrators don’t have much to worry about (yet).

A few randomly selected blog posts…

The perception of taste

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GenAI in Teacher Education: A Technoskeptical Perspective

GenAI in Teacher Education: A Technoskeptical Perspective

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4 AM: A poem

4 AM: A poem

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Jumpstart Repurposing

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Of teaching & cooking

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Patrick Dickson just forwarded me an essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education, titled The Sensuous Classroom: Focusing on the Embodiment of Learning [Subscription required]. In this article Suzanne Kelly, the author, bemoans the absence of the physical body from...

Math & Visual Wordplay: New video

Math & Visual Wordplay: New video

The word "math" written such that it has rotational symmetryi.e. it reads the same even when rotated by 180-degrees. The relationship between mathematics and visual wordplay is one I have played with and writing about for a while (More here). I just discovered...

Tactical creativity in sports

Tactical creativity in sports

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Design thinking, some resources

I teaching CEP817, Learning Technology by Design in the spring semester. This is a course I love but it also one that needs to be redesigned. So I am always on the look-out for new resources that can help me rethink the class. I just came across the following website:...

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