Can auto focus, computers, cars, predictive text, and all the other things mimick what we do????

All things we have talked about are things we programme or tell what to do. AI at present still needs us, but as this technology progresses then what?

It makes us lazy now.... you type something in to a search engine, and get an AI answer. This stops us from researching ourselves.

There is also a bill in the US at present that stops AI being regulated for 10 years..... and states "The language could bar regulations on systems ranging from popular commercial models like ChatGPT to those that help make decisions about who gets hired or finds housing."

I want a human to make decisions regarding me, and we should encourage people to engage with others. Not AI chat.....

Auto focus and predictive text are not AI... they have both been around long before AI. They're based on patterns or algorithms. AI learns.... this is vastly different.

As for machines making our lives easier, copying things or sorting things IS NOT a valid argument.

This about it mimicking what we do. Learning skills it has taken us a lifetime to learn. It can do it in a matter of minutes or seconds.

AI has the potential to make us redundant...

Thank you Mike!

@Rick.... Thank you.... and....

The kit I have is linear but with a bit of fannying I can do both. I did look at a bit of kit that can do both, but they're silly money! So I am gonna attempt a bodgit and scarper... keep your eyes on here for when I do it!

The two systems I have, one has a controller that I programme it to do what I want. This is the GVM GT-60D. The other bit of kit I have is a Syrp Genie. This one you actually have a screen on it that you do all the programming via. The upto date kit is now under Manfrotto, but it is engineered by Syrp, It is now all programmed via an app.

Yes.... hopefully in the next 4 to 6 weeks, if I get a weekend with clear weather I will be heading to a dark sky site in Wales to hopefully do a galactic core timelapse! Unfortunately... it will more than likely be shot with my Canon 5D MkII becuase.... and it pains me to say this.... it producess better core images than any of my Pentax kit. Plus another advantage to it is, I can lock the shutter perminantly up!

Music used to be a massive passion of mine! I had a load of studio kit and played in bands... but becuase of my health issues I had to give it up. I can't play in bands and for me, that was what it was all about. Not interested in playing stuff and vommiting on YouTube!

I have just read this piece in The Guardian....

Personally I think AI is a catastropically bad idea in general, but when it starts to deprive people of thier livelyhood it needs to be stopped.

As for it mimicking peoples work, voices or skills. This is just wrong on every level! I am getting put of the idea of putting my work on the internet now, incase somebody, somewhere uses it to train AI. Why should someone be able to make from our skills that have taken a lifetime to learn should be so flippantly disregarded is morally bankrupt!

AI should be stopped.... right now,

In another piece I read it quoted that in the next 10 years, AI could take 300 million people jobs. To put that in to context - the population of the EU is about 290 million, and the US is 330 million.....that makes it a sobering thought!

As I said in Rick's Summer Projects post, here is my test shots!

This is my first time lapse with a motion control system.





This image is my first attempt at a multi-row panoramic.




Here are a few more images I took while I was out!




This one has something flying in it.... can you spot it?

My filter bag permanently lives in my van! They're indispensable for landscapes!

Play with them!!!!

I can recommend a Giottos Aluminium one. I use one for long exposure stuff, so like me you need something stable. Don't get a carbon theyre too light! The one I'd recommend is the GTMTL9261B. I have one and use it with my Star Tracker. They're pretty reasonable used.

Also another good thing I do is use dive weights to steady the tripod. I use 6 or 7 kilo on mine. Makes it hugely more stable.

I know how your good lady feels. I too have health issues... it can get you down veing restricted. Nearly everything I shoot is shot right next to my van. I am limited as to where I can get, and sonetimes I get really frustrated as I lack inspirational places to shoot....

I have just acquired some motion control kit, so I will be hopefully be putting up some timelapse stuff.

I also am planning a core shot next month... weather permitting!

Another plan is to shoot some multi-row panoramic images.

And finally... i might bugger off to Manchester airport and do some plane snapping!

Or....

What he says!

Check the email address of the notification email you recieved.

If it does not have this domain on the end @pentaxuser.com, it could be a phishing email. If so you need to let Rick on here know.