Returning to the experiments of Google Labs this week, I decided to use Whisk to create a few Christmas card options. The results are...variable... Whisk works by combining up to three images - one subject, one scene, and one style into a new, blended, concoction. You can choose to upload an image (you need to …
There's been a lot of chat and excitement about Gemini's new image generator - Nano Banana (where do they get these names from?). It's even available in Adobe Photoshop now. While it's a good image generator, its real strength is in editing. You can edit via text prompt and unlike previous models from various platforms, …
Following on from the last post on Gemini Storybook, I took a look at RunwayML's Game World application. Think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure Story, but with pictures. You need to be a RunwayML paid subscriber to be able to use the app, which is currently in beta. Note: if you're in …
Google's Gemini LLM has a new Gem, called Storybook. Before diving into that, Gems are custom versions of Gemini, designed to be particularly suited to one, small, given task or area. There's a career guide, a coding partner, a learning coach, and two experimental models; one for chess, and the other for stories. Jumping into …
With everyone going on about agentic AI and automation, I thought it might be good to take a look at a tool that creates these linked-together actions that isn't super-technical and complex. Glif is basically agentic AI for beginners and I really like it. You get 10 free credits per day, but they don't roll …
This is a tool I've yet to find any practical use for, but it's just so much fun!! Skybox is really for people making video games as its initial audience, and ripples out from there. This is a text to image generator, except the images are 360 degree views of worlds. You generally start by …
The image generators are improving rapidly, and more are appearing all the time. Much like the LLMs, there are some tools that are built from scratch, and others which sit on top of others, with some fine tuning applied. The ones listed below are all 'from scratch' versions. All the image generations tool other than …
AI for Squishy Humans 