What AI thinks a Telecaster looks like

[tfarny]

AI seems to think “guitars” occupy a subset of stringed instruments with between 5 and 17 strings.

But the overall scenes, rooms, lighting are eerily impressive and fun to look at.

It’s interesting to see what parameters get kind of out of whack...8 or ten tuning keys on the headstock, but about 4-5 strings, not centered on the bridge and with the wound strings and plain strings positions reversed. Like a little bit of subtle disorienting unreality creeping in.

Yeah AI is horrible at drawing highly specific things like hands, guitar fretboards and so on. The difference between having 5 fingers or 6 is a very subtle and hard thing for it to "worry" about. It's much better at the lighting and angles.

 

[tfarny]

I don't mean to offend anyone but I am tired of this "AI" craze thing. It is just another fad thing—here today, gone tomorrow. I don't have enough time left on this planet to mess with such sillyness.

You may not have to mess with it, and good for you. But if you're still working and your work involves writing or art - it's not a fad at all. It's a game changer and there will be winners and losers.

 

[getbent]

Yeah AI is horrible at drawing highly specific things like hands, guitar fretboards and so on. The difference between having 5 fingers or 6 is a very subtle and hard thing for it to "worry" about. It's much better at the lighting and angles.

today.

 

[pipthepilot]

I don't mean to offend anyone but I am tired of this "AI" craze thing. It is just another fad thing—here today, gone tomorrow. I don't have enough time left on this planet to mess with such sillyness.

I don't have enough time left on this planet not mess with it.

As part of a creativity workflow, AI has become an incredible tool saving me days creating initial concepts that I then develop into a final designs for clients.

 

[bholder]

'same as it ever was'

so many calvinists around me and none listen to him...

Just remember, for every Calvinist, there's a Hobbesist.

 

[Tricone]

You asked for it..
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Yeah man. Thanks. Not bad at all. Even added the "smokey" vibe. Cool.

 

[middy]

today.

Exactly. It's learned a LOT since getbent posted this 6 hours ago...

 

[Tricone]

Here you go
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Very cool. It adds alot of detail with the lighting and atmosphere. Thanks. Very cool.

 

[Chester P Squier]

Here's Al with his Telecaster:


Oh! A.I. Not Al. Never mind.

 

[Tricone]

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[jvin248]

There's an expression "a camel is a horse designed by a committee". I hope Fender doesn't use AI design new variations of the Tele. They're doing quite well creating kitchensinkocasters even as we speak.

That committee design was the SG.
Gibson management needed something, anything, to combat those fast selling Fender models. The best feature they came up with on that guitar is they dropped the price to match Fender and saved themselves. Eventually some Boom Bands got them cheap new/used/pawned and made a few famous songs and off to vintage history they leaped. (I have a couple of SGs, most notable differences if playing a Strat for a while then switch to the SG).


I did like seeing the AI ideas of how many and where to place fret marker dots. Oh so many and in fun locations!

5-17 stringed guitars were a thing for a while, in the brief 'buy something new' stage of guitar marketing. So that was an inevitable find for the AI.

Interesting how the most prominent focus Tele in that first image is festooned with a covered bridge humbucker not the classic slanted Uncovered Tele Single Coil.

How soon to get a sub-topic on this forum where an AI can look at any Tele and answer "is this a real or fake Tele?". That could be a useful task for the robot. Pin the thread to the top of the forum with a post inside it on "how to use AI to verify your random Tele listing is legit or not".

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[Alex_C]

I don't mean to offend anyone but I am tired of this "AI" craze thing. It is just another fad thing—here today, gone tomorrow. I don't have enough time left on this planet to mess with such sillyness.

AI is not a fad. It is scary good at certain things and will only get better at tasks. I'm concerned. I'm not sure if it will become "sentient", as we don't really know how to define sentience. My worry is that it will be used to automate control of tasks and make a decision that is in the best interest of the task but not in our best interest. Ben Bostrom wrote a really interesting book called "Super Intelligence". It is well worth the read.

 

[Engine Swap]

I lead a team that creates both writing and art. I would be foolish to ignore the capabilities of this technology. I really don’t have a choice - it’s a very powerful tool, not a toy or a novelty.

Right now, I’m working to see how we can harness it to save time, increase output, and automate the tedious parts of the job. Very soon, we will be using it to do the bulk of our editing and proofreading. It simply doesn’t “miss” things. We can teach it our style and branding guides and it will follow them to the letter.

Over 80% of our language translation is done by machine. It used to take 6 weeks to get a translation done. Now it’s days. Costs have dropped as well.

Am I worried - sure I am. It’s going to be a period of change, chaos, and opportunity. All I’ve got to do is hit the sweet spot (lol!). A lot of businesses and professions are in the same boat.

 

[goonie]

For all the negativity about AI, the initial models seem to be engaging a lot of people. I have tried several and am initially very impressed with the results.

What task are you using the AI for?

 

[goonie]

I don't have enough time left on this planet not mess with it.

As part of a creativity workflow, AI has become an incredible tool saving me days creating initial concepts that I then develop into a final designs for clients.

Are you using the AI to draft graphics, text or both?

 

[jrblue]

Lots of short-cutting and fakery in most of those images... It's fascinating what knowledge the application has and uses, and how blanks are filled in not only by AI "thinking," but also by image-processing that leaves shadows, or just blends and gradients, rather than actually building out actual details. There are weird little artifacts sprinkled all over -- is that a knob? screw? fly? Good to know that jazz guitars rarely have 6 strings... mostly 8 or more. None of the images show a world I would want to enter or a guitar I would want to play. But I'll take that mando, please! That's not a Loar.

 

[Lou Tencodpees]

I often wonder if we are in an awkward and unprecedented period of human evolution. The environmental conditions that steered beings to exit the ocean and grow legs has always been terrestrial. Seems our own creations are changing that trajectory in evolution. It's hard for me not wonder if we're exiting the ocean, growing legs and heading straight to the volcano for warmth. Either way, it's an exhilarating journey.

 

[telleutelleme]

What task are you using the AI for?

I chair an education foundation focusing on engaging at risk and under served kids. We want to attract these kids into STEM disciplines, specifically geospatial science. Finding methods and ways to showcase pathways into niche jobs, through education is difficult. AI and especially GPT open access has helped to locate and explain the variety of jobs and subjects available in geospatial science.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

That committee design was the SG.
Gibson management needed something, anything, to combat those fast selling Fender models. The best feature they came up with on that guitar is they dropped the price to match Fender and saved themselves. Eventually some Boom Bands got them cheap new/used/pawned and made a few famous songs and off to vintage history they leaped. (I have a couple of SGs, most notable differences if playing a Strat for a while then switch to the SG).


I did like seeing the AI ideas of how many and where to place fret marker dots. Oh so many and in fun locations!

5-17 stringed guitars were a thing for a while, in the brief 'buy something new' stage of guitar marketing. So that was an inevitable find for the AI.

Interesting how the most prominent focus Tele in that first image is festooned with a covered bridge humbucker not the classic slanted Uncovered Tele Single Coil.

How soon to get a sub-topic on this forum where an AI can look at any Tele and answer "is this a real or fake Tele?". That could be a useful task for the robot. Pin the thread to the top of the forum with a post inside it on "how to use AI to verify your random Tele listing is legit or not".

.

At my first Dead show*, Jerry was playing a red SG. Whenever I see one, I get a flashback.

Never had an SG, but I've had a lot of those shirts.

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* It was the first of these shows: Capitol. Don't remember what he was playing at the others.

 

[burntfrijoles]

That committee design was the SG.

I love SG design. It has endured quite well. It gave better access to upper frets. It was light.

Gibson management needed something, anything, to combat those fast selling Fender models.

That was the Les Paul. Gibson needed something to replace the slow selling Les Paul.

How soon to get a sub-topic on this forum where an AI can look at any Tele and answer "is this a real or fake Tele?".

As long as it’s not the Chatbot. It might say inappropriate thing about a fake Tele.