The short-lived 1925 Coupe

[Tony Griffiths]

The short-lived 1925 Coupe, as announced in the Light Car & Cyclecar magazine and in the Light Car & Cyclecar.

[Ivor Hawkins]

I love these colour versions together with the old illustrations, is that AI.

[Tony Griffiths]

I love these colour versions together with the old illustrations, is that AI.

Yes, the basis is AI, but not AI-generated in this case. It was fed the fuzzy pictures, and given a set of instructions - that it might or might not obey. In this case, it did, and the results were remarkably good, and only ten minutes or so in Photoshop was required afterwards to make corrections. 
I've been playing with several different systems, and the best is Google's Gemini. Parts of this are now free to use, including the powerful "Nano Banana 2". Give it a go. The secret is to tell it exactly what you want, don't want, and the limits required e.g. "Clean and sharpen this period advertisement to improve clarity only. Remove dust, stains, scanning artefacts, and noise where possible. Do not add, remove, redraw, modernise, recolour, reinterpret, or reconstruct any text, lettering, artwork, shading, borders, or layout elements. Preserve the original typography, line weight, halftone texture, proportions, and composition exactly as they appear." And guess what - it does not always work! 
Some claims are that it will replace Photoshop. It won't. It will produce all sorts of stuff automatically - fliers, adverts, graphs, text, etc - but it's never perfect, and handwork is still needed.

[Tony Press]

Like all AI it still needs human intervention- when will people learn.

Read 'The Machine Stops' by E M Forster - written in 1907 and still remarkably correct 117 years later.

Cheers, Tony.

[Tony Griffiths]

So true. If it can't follow a simple instruction, who would trust it with anything critical?
The text of the story is here: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teachi..._stops.pdf
Do you remember the BBC science fiction anthology series "Out of the Unknown" that used Forster's story? Broadcast on TV in 1966 and depicted a future where humanity lives underground, entirely dependent on a machine for survival.

[Tony Press]

The Americans ?????

[Tony Griffiths]

My father-in-law was in the 8th Army during WW2. As with so many men of the time, he spoke little of his experiences, but he did mention that, when in Italy and German bombers were attacking, he said that they'd watch them, casually, as they knew that they were not the target. But, when American planes were spotted, they all dived into the slit trenches knowing a rain of bombs would be scattered at random over the landscape.

[Gordon Puzey]

Sorry to drift this a bit further but Tony's story reminded me of something my son said when he returned from the Gulf war. 
When Iraq fired the Brits ducked, when the Brits fired Iraq ducked, when the Americans fired everyone ducked.

[Dave Mann]

Ah the much acclaimed Norden bomb sight Tony.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Dixi version?


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