First Blush: ChatGPT Plus with DALL-E 3

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Where I failed, one of you will succeed.

The Infinity Gauntlet was unlocked Friday night, October 13th, 2023 (Friday the Thirteenth), when the last of the anticipated new beta modes rolled-out to my ChatGPT Plus account when DALL-E 3 access was enabled. In other words, ChatGPT Plus can create images now. ChatGPT Plus users will know you can try this when you see this beta mode enabled:

These are some of my first attempts in the first hours of access to get ChatGPT Plus with DALL-E 3 to create a family tree or something interesting given a bit of an Ahnentafel list.

All were failures in the sense that I had trouble getting DALL-E 3 to render much text correctly. Which makes this a good time to repeat Prof. Mollock’s point: just because one user fails to get ChatGPT to do something, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Individually, our failed prompts may be revealing our limits at prompt engineering, not the AI’s capability. Today.

So I share these failures because I’m pretty sure one of you will crack this.

Thelma Francis Houck (1921-2017) was my maternal grandmother, my Grandma Lawrence; these experiments were with her in mind, trying to make something nice in honor of her memory.

FAILED PROMPT:
Do something artful with this bit of an Ahnentafel list:

1. Thelma F. Houck (1921-2017)
2. Joseph C. Houck (1888-1983)
3. Pearl E. Houck (1891-1992)
4. James S. Houck (1858-1927)
5. Minerva E. Fox (1862-1957)
6. Thomas M. Houck (1859-1924)
7. Delia T. Parker (1866-1936)

And because some of these “failures” were still pretty cool.

Some interesting failures. I can’t wait to see what you create with this.

By the way, this is what ChatGPT imagines your office looks like:

PROMPT: Show me some images of a genealogist's dream office/library/archive.

Published by Steve Little

Steve Little is the AI Program Director for the National Genealogical Society and the founder of AI Genealogy Insights. I trace my deep roots to one Appalachian county, where, by 1820, all 32 of my 3rd-great-grandparents had settled—many even earlier than that. In fact, 60 of my most recent ancestors were born, lived, and died there, in Ashe County, NC. My passion lies in AI & genetic genealogy: with a keen interest in endogamy, pedigree collapse, and the art of deciphering multiple relationships through DNA segment triangulation, and an insatiable curiosity to explore beneficial uses and current limits of artificial intelligence in genealogy. Beyond genealogy, I wear many hats: I'm a husband and a dad, a Methodist pastor, and a Virginian. My hobbies span from bird watching and sky gazing to chess and film. Additionally, I'm an avid reader, writer, photographer, and regex script hacker.

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