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Post by Adam on Jan 12, 2024 14:06:41 GMT
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Post by healey36 on Jan 12, 2024 14:20:26 GMT
Looks great...would have looked even better if the locomotive was on the track.
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Post by Country Joe on Jan 12, 2024 14:21:45 GMT
That is incredible, Adam. It almost makes me wish I had a Microsoft account.
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Post by Adam on Jan 12, 2024 14:24:36 GMT
Looks great...would have looked even better if the locomotive was on the track. Some of the detail, if you inspect deeply, are certainly not correct. But this technology is coming along very quickly. In a year or two I expect it to be almost perfect. AI had a huge problem with the detail of hands (actually incredibly hard for human artists too) not long ago, but it has come a long way there as well.
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Post by healey36 on Jan 12, 2024 16:06:11 GMT
Virtual toy train layouts have been in development for years...this is a sign that that work will likely accelerate, eventually reaching a point where one can construct a virtual layout that will rival the look and feel of anything that can be built tangibly. Hopefully I'll have six feet of dirt piled on me before that becomes a reality, but I suspect not.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jan 13, 2024 11:32:56 GMT
Looks great...would have looked even better if the locomotive was on the track.
I can't say that this sort of thing appeals to me and if I wanted a really intricate Christmas scene I'd probably do it in N or Z scale.
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Post by healey36 on Jan 13, 2024 13:56:12 GMT
Looks great...would have looked even better if the locomotive was on the track.
I can't say that this sort of thing appeals to me and if I wanted a really intricate Christmas scene I'd probably do it in N or Z scale. Still remarkable that a machine can generate such an image, regardless of any distortions or fails in content. I'd like to hear what Bill (TVC) thinks of this.
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Post by david1 on Jan 13, 2024 22:02:16 GMT
Very cool, not being very computer savy, the picture above is a digital drawing? Yes or no.
Dave
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jan 13, 2024 22:13:01 GMT
Very cool, not being very computer savy, the picture above is a digital drawing? Yes or no. Dave
P.S. How about Lionel creating digital-only Big Boys to run on an imaginary layout at $2K list price a pop? Somehow I don't think so.
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Post by Adam on Jan 13, 2024 22:57:37 GMT
Artificial Intelligence is fascinating, scary and, as of yet, very imperfect.
The entirety of those images was generated by the computer (really a data center full of computers) based only on a prompt. I asked it to "Draw a Christmas Themed Model Train Layout". Thats it, the machine did the rest.
What is fascinating about this is how these things work. They are loosely based on our own neurons. They learn similar to how we learn, from information. These Generative AI models that have been in the news are trained on the entirety of the Internet. It is possible that it even learned from some of the material here on OGF. In other words, it learned about train layouts from images of other train layouts.
Where this all goes, who knows. It will be interesting to follow.
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Post by david1 on Jan 14, 2024 1:41:57 GMT
When I first saw it I thought it was a nice display built be a real person with lots of skills.
Watching the comments started me thinking this was not a real photo of a layout but a digital creation and that's why I asked the question.
Amazing what can be done and as time goes by it will get even better.
Dave
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Post by runamuckchuck on Jan 14, 2024 20:12:03 GMT
No there is a layout that I would leave up year round!
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Post by Adam on Jan 14, 2024 22:19:44 GMT
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Post by curtis on Jan 15, 2024 14:40:09 GMT
Being somewhat fascinated by Adam's Pic of the big boy I tried DDA40X leading train thru Mountains. And got this. FAILED BIG TIME! Colors are wrong and it is not a DDA40x.
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Post by curtis on Jan 15, 2024 14:40:54 GMT
BUT STILL, Very cool that it can be done.
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