Gramma, Grampa, and artificial intelligence

[Jeff]

Statement one. I never got to meet my Grandparents. My Dad's dad Manley, died in 1940, 21 years before I was born, and my Dad's mother Flora, died in 1951. I look forward to meeting them one day.

Statement 2. I detest AI. I hate not knowing what is real and not real any more. I hate seeing things like baby bald eagles that look like little adult eagles huddled in a nest with the parents and people oooing and ahhing about the amazing photo. AI is making people stupid. It makes them believe that things that do not exist do.

Having said these things, I feel like a hippocrite by posting this, but it made me want to meet my grandparents even more. I have this old photo of my tired looking Grampa standing next to my Grandma with his hat plopped on her head. I always imagined him unexpectedly and spontaneously dropping it on her head just before they had thier photo taken. That one photo left me with many assumed impressions about them, but the first 2, was they loved each other, and they had a sense of humor.

Back to AI. I came across the photo again and once again in my mind I could see Grampa placing the hat on my Grandmother's head, and I thought about the AI stuff I was seeing that could animate an image. So, I relented. I found an online application that let me do one photo for 5 seconds one time for free, and I did it. Below is the photo and the result. The results touched my heart and again I say, I can't wait to meet them, and yes, I still detest AI for deceiving people and making them stupid.

[thecfarm]

Amazing!!!!

[Jeff]

Even her dress, and the leaves in the background trees, it's just so scary.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Holy smokes! That is crazy...and very impressive

[Magicman]

It's real.....I saw it on the internet so it's real!!   

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, it is really impressive what it can do.

Thankfully I had my grandparents around on mom's side for many years, there is even video of grandfather fishing in his canoe at his private salmon pool in the 40's before the hydro dam was built on that spot in the 50's. I do not remember my grandfather Crawford, but he was around until '71 (born 1898), grandma I do remember and we had her with us until '80 (born 1900).

[aigheadish]

Pretty neat, Jeff, but I'm with you, I think AI is not good for society, even though it can "do" interesting things. I think this is very sweet though. I don't know that I've even seen a picture of my mom's dad.