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Would be nice to have an actual pipe-generating AI.

• SamBam 5y ago
  I believe Windows had a screensaver that did that decades ago...
  • teh_klev 5y ago
    Back in the day, ~1995'ish I was a tech supporting Windows NT4 (amongst many other things) and I had a customer with a beefy dual processor server living on premises in a closet. For some unknown reason NT would slow down and overall performance was a bit rubbish. It turns out that the customer had turned on the pipes screensaver and it basically soaked up all of the CPU time. Fortunately my customer was more agreeable to disabling this compared to this similar story from those days of yore: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe
• adonovan 5y ago
  Unfortunately the Dall-E demo (openai.com/blog/dall-e) doesn't have useful deep links nor let you choose free-form prompts, but if you modify one of the existing text prompts to "a snail made of faucet", it generates some pretty realistic pipes--the plumbing variety--that I'm pretty sure do not exist. Examples: https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_23.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_25.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_15.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran...
  • gpvos 5y ago
    Fascinating how the replies are about the plumbing pipe variety, while the link above is clearly to the smoking type, which was what I meant. I guess you can use this one to generate that though.