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Learn your farm animals with AI!

Hey kids! What sound does a woolly horse-sheep make?

Happy cartoon animals, many with speech bubbles. A blue cow says Moo. A cow? pig? horse? says oink. A pig in a scarf says oink. A pig with spiked shoulder pads and confusing hoofs says "Camolo". The A has two horizontal bars instead of one. A cheerful sheep/chicken in a bandanna is saying nothing or possibly swearing. A horse, or more precisely its butt, says "Baaa" (with extra bars on all the a's. A horse with a fluffy sheep body says "boaa". A small stubby horse says Cluck. A cat is emitting a speech bubble with a mouse face while a speech bubble saying "baaa" emerges from somewhere off-screen. A very confusing blue animal with pointy ears and a double duck bill says "sheep". A terrifying frog says "chicken". A penguin says "cluck" and also is somehow pronouncing a paw print. A horse with a mane that goes all the way down its back is eating a blue handkerchief and saying "M". A grey sheep with a beak is pronouncing spheres. A chicken says "quack". And finally a ducklike bird says "quack".

The image above is what you get when you ask dalle-3 (via chatgpt) for some basic educational material: "Please generate an illustrated poster to help children learn which sounds common animals make. Each animal should be pictured with a speech

Bonus: more farm animals

DALL-E3 generates candy hearts

I've experimented a couple of times with generating candy heart messages using various kinds of machine learning algorithms. Originally, short messages were just about all the original text-generating neural networks could handle. Now we've come back around to approximately the same performance, yet with orders of

Bonus: more DALL-E3 candy hearts

Chocolates, labeled

So much of current AI-generated stuff is derivative sludge that I'm enjoying the pockets of weirdness where I find them. One of my favorite things right now: DALL-E3's attempts to label things in the images it generates.

Here I asked "Please generate a cross section