Your input, please!

[Berg]

Hi all,

My next LIP Service column is due Monday - how did that sneak up on me?!

I would like to write about the topic of what effects (if any) AI has had, is currently having, or will have on interactive programs. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance,
Karrie

[Alan Gould]

...about the topic of what effects (if any) AI has had, is currently having, or will have on interactive programs:

By coincidence, the subject of AI came up near the end of the IPS Community Chat yesterday,

To the extent that live moderators/presenters/facilitators rely on planetarium control interfaces to guide or enhance their interactions with audiences, computer code scripts will be essential. The easier it is to create them, the easier it will be for moderators/presenters/facilitators to use them in programs. Proprietary scripting languages will most likely not be eligible for this type of use. That's because they would require training an AI with enough examples of scripts for them to be of any use and most planetarium companies are relatively too small for that kind of investment. It will have to be more common languages such javascript, html, and so forth. AI could be a useful tool for us, but for the time being and the foreseeable future, HI (human intelligence) will be needed to (a) tell the AI what's needed in enough detail to get the right results, (b) test the results to make sure they do what they're supposed to do and iterate with revision(s) as needed, and (c) put the results to good use. As far as any examples of current use, at IPS Community Chat (July 15), one of the attendees mentioned that they had started using AI in coding DarkMatter javascript for Sky-Skan systems. OpenSpace is also javascript-enabled, but I don't know if anyone has attempted using AI for creating scripts in OpenSpace. Probably same for Digistar.

-Alan

[Berg]

Thanks, Alan! 

Does anyone else have a few minutes to send along some thoughts, either in response to Alan's comments or on a new thread?

Cheers,
Karrie

[Rod Kennedy]

My experience with AI has been rather limited beyond recognizing that something has been created using it. However, I have found that the AI search feature on many web browsers has been very helpful when doing research for my live presentations. When I need an answer fast it works fairly well. Naturally this is more for facts, figures, data etc. rather than for in depth analysis. But being able to do a search and have what I want pop up at the top of the page rather than sift through dozens of potentially useless links is very helpful.  

I can't see myself using it to actually try to create something; I'm too old fashioned to not have a hand in that process. Plus my experience has been that a lot of  AI generated material, be it images or text,  just doesn't feel right. It just doesn't have the same flair that something created by a human does.

Anyway, that is my 25 cents worth. 

Have a great weekend!

Rod Kennedy

Casper Planetarium

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LIPS" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lips-planetari...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lips-planetarium/24f7c09c-1dbe-4b3c-ada3-dc3f470a0c1bn%40googlegroups.com.

[Patricia Reiff]

I don’t have anything for Ai in planetariums, but I did see online a neat activity for students.  Have them ask ChatGPT to write a short article on a specific topic, and then research what it got right and more importantly what it got wrong.  An eye-opener.  

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LIPS" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lips-planetari...@googlegroups.com.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lips-planetarium/b06eae06-3cc2-4f2e-9afc-ae87bad78937n%40googlegroups.com.

[Berg]

I really like that idea, Pat! Not sure how to apply in a typical planetarium setting, but I bet it is indeed eye-opening.