Illustrator Vsevolod Chesalov
Illustrator Diana Chesalova
Cover designer Alexander Chesalov
Illustrator Chesalov Alexander
© Alexander Chesalov, 2024
© Vsevolod Chesalov, illustrations, 2024
© Diana Chesalova, illustrations, 2024
© Alexander Chesalov, cover design, 2024
© Chesalov Alexander, illustrations, 2024
ISBN 978-5-0062-7082-4
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The wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence can be fully revealed to us only when you and I can see the positive results of its work, especially those created with our direct participation. These results must be understandable and explainable to everyone, and they must also be ethical, unbiased and not violate the law.
Today, Artificial Intelligence can do a lot, for example: write the text of a new poem or even a whole story, reproduce it in different voices of famous actors or musicians, analyze a large amount of numerical data and make a forecast for the future, play computer games with us or with a thousand people at once games. Perhaps the most impressive thing, in my opinion, that Artificial Intelligence can do today is create unique and incredible images. These images can be the embodiment of a three-dimensional world of a fantastic future in a computer game or be a virtual simulation of the world around us. The images can be three-dimensional or two-dimensional, and can also be made in various painting styles by famous artists from different time periods. But the most interesting thing is that these images may contain creatures or objects that do not exist in our world.
In this book, you will acquire new knowledge about how diverse Artificial Intelligence can be, and you will become familiar with its most popular terms and definitions. You will learn what is «artificial superintelligence», «narrow Artificial Intelligence», «friendly Artificial Intelligence», «human-centered Artificial Intelligence», «distributed Artificial Intelligence», «trusted Artificial Intelligence», «composite Artificial Intelligence», «explainable» Artificial Intelligence» and much more.
I will tell you how you can transform and visualize the knowledge you have acquired using an Artificial Intelligence system, turning the text definitions of various terms from this book into fantastic drawings.
In order to bring all this to life, we will study the work of a free program – the Easy Diffusion generative Artificial Intelligence system. This program creates photorealistic images from text queries and graphic images.
Easy Diffusion is an easy-to-install assembly (distribution) of the Stable Diffusion Artificial Intelligence system. Easy Diffusion will allow us to create unique images based on the most popular neural network models today, such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, OpenJourney, DreamShaper, SDXL Yamer’s Realism!, ProtoVision XL, Art Universe, Realistic Vision and many others.
With the help of this book, you will learn not only how to use Easy Diffusion Artificial Intelligence as a creative tool, but you will also be able to independently install, configure and uninstall this program on your computer, connect various additional modules to it, which will significantly expand its capabilities for creating and processing images.
With the help of Artificial Intelligence, you will learn to create unique and inimitable images that you can use in your studies or for entertainment.
In order to be objective in my work and make the book as accessible as possible to a wide range of readers, I asked my son Vsevolod (5th grade student) and my daughter Diana (8th grade student) to help me work on the textbook and create various images that reflect the essence of the definitions of Artificial Intelligence presented in the book. It was interesting for me to involve them in a new activity for them, and it was also very important to understand for myself how quickly they would learn to work with the Easy Diffusion Artificial Intelligence system and be able to create their own high-quality images.
It turned out that fifteen minutes of instruction was enough to begin their first acquaintance with Easy Diffusion Artificial Intelligence and become familiar with the work of the Realistic Vision model. Their first image was a steampunk style hamster. Steampunk is a science fiction movement incorporating technology and arts and crafts inspired by technology and 19th century science fiction1. Nevertheless, they gained more or less serious experience working with Easy Diffusion after some time.
It took us more than six weeks of work to fill this book with illustrations. From more than five hundred drawings, we have selected for you the most, in our opinion, impressive and interesting. The total computer time we spent working with the Easy Diffusion Artificial Intelligence is approximately three hundred and sixty hours. What can we say about the fact that writing the book itself, correcting and editing the text, as well as selecting the necessary pictures required a lot of time and effort.
