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…

Designing STEAM

Designing STEAM

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Why I like naps

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TPACK Newsletter, #6 Jan-Feb, 2010

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AllTop

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Being a tourist in Taipei

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Coding + Aesthetics: New Journal Article

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