Testing MetaAI: "Leonardo Dreams of Flight"
Testing MetaAI Leonardo Dreams of Flight Meta, the parent of Facebook, is now promoting an artificial intelligence service, MetAI. It invites you to ask it to "imagine" a scene in response to your description. I wondered how it would respond to the title of one of my own paintings. I picked Leonardo Dreams of Flight. I depicted Leonardo di Vinci in reverie with flight related images from his notebooks swirling around his head and birds swirling over the city of Florence. MetaAI gave me four imag es. Three were very similar, static pictures with Leonard looking on his flight drawings, but one was different: This angelically winged Leonardo with a dreamy look is a completely different approach than I took. The detail and color choices are impressive. I clicked on the "animate" button for this image and was disappointed that the wings didn't move, only Leonardo's head.