TEH 272: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites.

Um, but I think, I think you made the suggestion last week, or somebody made the suggestion last week, that one of the things we might do is just sort of mention some of the unique ways we've used AI in the previous-

Mm-hmm

... week.

And I think that's actually kind of interesting, because I think it'll be a combination of, um, things people, um, you know, didn't realize existed, which actually is gonna be my first one, and then, uh, just like pragmatic uses for AI, which is my number two.

Um, so I was watching one of the plethora of YouTube videos that covers, you know, you need to use this AI tool, and there's all these AI tools you don't know about.

Mm-hmm.

And Google has a bunch of AI tools that nobody's ever heard of that are really pretty cool, and, uh, actually, w- for one of them it was actually very true.

Uh, I stumbled into Google Flow, which is actually in Google Labs.

Mm.

Now, I've been using Google's Gemini to do all of my, um, image generation.

I do that for the hero images for all of my articles these days.

And Google Flow actually does the image stuff, but it gives you a fair amount more control.

It actually responds much better to, um, "No, I meant this, not that," kind of, uh, follow-on to image generation, which actually has been quite helpful.

Um, it was one of those things where I discovered Flow.

I said, "Oh, I wonder if I could make a better image than the one I made last week for a specific article." And this time I was able to get exactly, exactly what I was looking for, um, with a couple of iterations.

It was actually pretty cool.

Flow actually does more than just images, though.

It actually does, um, video as well.

It's...

It does the standard 10-second video generation.

So just for the heck of it, um, since everything these days seems to be corgi related, I asked it to generate a corgi in a spacesuit walking on the surface of Mars, where he encounters the Curiosity rover.

And indeed, um, it came up with a very nicely...

I mean, the, the concept was awesome.

Um, you know, yep, corgi, spacesuit, walking across, stumbles into, into Per- or into Curiosity.

Um, they kind of look at each other.