An AI-generated cyberpunk dystopia

I found the video below on Facebook when someone shared it, and I was amazed at how good it was — at times it was difficult to tell whether it was generated by AI or whether it was created by a movie-calibre CGI program. It appears to have been generated by feeding images into an AI and having it animate them, since some of the transitions and movement seem odd. But still fantastic work.

I’m not sure what the giant bug machines are all about, or why a building has a giant mouth with teet, or why people are wearing what look like old TV sets on their heads, but it definitely looks cool 🙂 Here are some stills I captured, in case you don’t want to watch the whole thing:

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Quinn sits in airplanes

My granddaughter Quinn sitting in the cockpit of a CF-100 aircraft at the Warplane Museum in Ancaster, Ontario on a recent visit. Quinn’s great-grandfather, my father (more info here) flew CF-100s along with a bunch of other fighter jets in the Royal Canadian Air Force. This plane was made by Avro — maker of the infamous Avro Arrow — and was nicknamed “The Clunk” because of the noise the landing gear made when retracted (it was also affectionately known as the Lead Sled). It was the first straight-winged aircraft to go supersonic.

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