St Jerome is a saint who is very well known in the world of translation. (I wrote about him here.) So much so that there are translation conferences across the world on St Jerome’s day, September 30.
It’s also a popular idea to imagine what St Jerome would do with modern technology. So, of course I could not restrain myself but prompt this:
Me: Create a Renaissance painting depicting St Jerome as he, together with a disciple, is busy training a neural machine translation model.
ChatGPT aka DALL-E:
Like many times before, the AI didn’t push back: It made an honest attempt to create a Renaissance painting (!) of a neural machine translation model. There were quite a few mystical-minded people in that age who would have loved this. (Emperor Rudolf the Second, who had his seat in Prague, is a good example.) I’m not sure about St Jerome, though.
Still, I had to try a more mundane setting, when this, admittedly quite psychedelic, wonder of occult art would be replaced with technology we all recognize:
Me: Re-create the previous image but St Jerome and the disciple should use laptops.
ChatGPT aka DALL-E:
Here the challenge is to imagine laptops on a renaissance painting. They blend in with the furniture at various levels of success. Oh, and DALL-E still didn’t learn to count.
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