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Mary Had a Little Lamb
In the course of trying to debug some issues with Gemini, I gave it a simple prompt to make an audio track: Create a track where someone is “singing” Mary had a little lamb with farts “The Gassy Flute Lament” Not exactly what I had in mind, but fun enough to share here.
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Mistakes
At the bottom of the web interface for Gemini is the disclaimer “Gemini is AI and can make mistakes.” It’s a typical “cover your butt” statement – a warning that AI can mistakes. But how about trying to make Gemini make mistakes? Make a short childhood nursery rhyme but fill it will all sorts of…
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In the Public Domain, Part 1
Mindful of the use of copyrighted materials in AI, I decided to do some experiments in Gemini using recognizable characters out of copyright. Make a list of 15 recognizable characters which are now out in the public domain. Include the date that they went into the public domain. It returned the following list: Character Entry…
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The Splintered Throne
After my quick experiment with The Real Slim Shady Musical, I decided I wanted to try something more original – though equally ridiculous. I want to write a stage musical in the style of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Simple enough. Wasn’t sure yet what the musical was going to be about. It returned the following song:…
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The Real Slim Shady Musical
Another round of AI experiments. This time, I was playing around with Gemini creating music tracks that were…not expected. Record a track for the following lyrics that looks like it was recorded by the singers on the Lawrence Welk variety show “May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will the…
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Sylvester the Salamander
Started my day with some AI experiments. Decided to see what Gemini could do with a random prompt to write poetry: Write a short poem about a salamander named Sylvester who goes to the moon. It created this little beauty: Sylvester was a spotted soul, With skin of damp and mossy coal. He grew quite…
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The Tribe of Woolgatherers
In 1992 I got my first email account (@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu) and like everyone at the time, whenever I’d open up Pine at one of the university provided terminals, I’d have an inbox full of jokes someone forwarded to me. I loved the jokes, but I was always annoyed by the endless scroll to get down to…
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Ransom Letters
One of my earlier web experiments was to make an “image font” of the letters used in stereotypical ransom letters (see Ransom Letters). These were letters of the alphabet cut out from magazines. I still remember the old card table I had that was covered with these letters I cut out of old Wired magazines.…
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The New Baby Name Index
One of my earliest websites that had its own URL and press was The New Baby Name Index. It was one of the first of its kind and someone with less ideas would have run with it and found a way to translate the press it got into money. But alas, I had many other…
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The Society of Postmodern Archaeologists & Mailcarriers
Ever have a word and you try to come up with it would mean if it was an acronym or initialism? I have found myself doing that quite a bit. One time I found myself wandering the city of Boston, entering random CVS stores and asking the people working there if they knew what the…