The recent history of A.I. in 32 otters
- sciart0
- Jun 1
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "Two years ago, I was on a plane with my teenage daughter, messing around with a new AI image generator while the wifi refused to work. Otters were her favorite animal, so naturally I typed: “otter on a plane using wifi” just as the connection was restored.
The resulting thread went viral and “otter on a plane using wifi” has since become one of my go-to tests of progress AI image generation.
What started as a silly prompt has become my accidental benchmark for AI progress. And tracking these otters over the years reveals three major shifts in AI over the past few years: the growth of multiple types of AI tools, rapid improvement, and the status of local and open models."