AI Blog Questions Challenge

I was already in the midst of writing a similar post when I saw this pop up on Kev Q's blog so thought I'd save some effort the old-fashioned way and steal it. 1. How was your first experience with AI models? I first experienced the rise of AI with colourisation models. I used one to colourise an old photo of my grandmother for my mum who was struggling with her grief after she passed away in 2014. The results were impressive and she still displays it on her mantelpiece today. I used image generation around the time of DALL-E 2, which was rough but made some amusing memes I could share with colleagues at work. Early chat models were clearly an early BETA at the time, hallucinating to the point of being useful for real work, but I didn't immediately discount them as I could see the potential but I am still surprised by the speed of this advancement. In hindsight, I probably should've recorded those early experiences in a journal somewhere, they might become amusing anecdotes of our…