Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Life Written in Defiance and Verse Linked below is my AV about the life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I fell in love with EBB’s Sonnet 43, and a reading of the sonnet is included towards the end of my story of her life and work. I made it some time ago but have today moved it onto my new YouTube Channel : @ChrisWiddallAV I’m working on ideas for a new AV, which I’ll post when it’s ready. Here is a summary of the AV: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), one of England’s greatest poets, defied social norms with literary works like Aurora Leigh and Sonnets from the Portuguese.…
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AI Judging – will it replace Humans?
As a frequent judge of photography, from club level to national level, I am rarely lost for words or an opinion! However, later this year I will be pitching my judging experience against AI judging and I very much expect to come up short, because I find AI judging so thorough and knowledgeable about art in particular. What can I, as a mere human, possibly come up with to rival the vast human experience that has been used to train AI models? I simply can’t! I pondered this idea for a while, but not for very long, because it soon occurred to me that I could ask AI. So I…
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Persephone and the Pomegranate
Here is a taster of my AI art. I have decided to separate my AI images from my photography website and so, from now, I am using my Flickr account for AI, which can be accessed at this link. If you are interested to follow my adventures in AI, please head over there afterwards. Persephone After being abducted by Hades, Persephone is tempted to eat some pomegranate seeds, which binds her to him, as his bride, to live in the Underworld for the winter months, but allows her to return to live with her mother, Demeter, for each spring and summer. Each year, as the pomegranate fruits ripen and the…
