Experiments in AI

Restoring old photographs

MyHeritage was one of the first to offer an AI tool to restore old, blurry B&W photos. Since then, I found GFP-GAN does a more realistic job, and then I colorize them with the restore filter on Ancestry.com.

Video from a Picture

More recently, AI is now able to generate a realistic video of a person talking based on a photograph. I use Heygen. On there, you can create an AI Avatar of a deceased relative if you have an audio recording of them.

Create a Book

Mike Adams has done a great job "re-programming" a public AI LLM, and training it with much of the alternative media (books, websites, podcasts). At BrightLearn Books you can have AI create the non-fiction book you want to read. Click the cover to read the one I did (free!).

See the interesting conversation I had with Claude about the Breakaway Civilization.

Coding with Claude

Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5 was a breakthru in software development. I can now just describe what I want to do, and then work thru a whole process of bug fixes and enhancements. I used Claude to write a Joomla! installable plugin that adds a <Claude AI> option to every content editor on my website. Now my members can generate articles with Claude's help.

About the plugin   Download

And another Joomla extension that exposes Community Builder fields for remote API. About CB API   Download

Generative AI

I used Claude AI to create this dynamic page, and Gemini AI to create the background.