I just want to say how cool it is how james puts up and reacts with all this internet nonsense and meme culture. Rarely we get celebrities that are so open to do stuff their fans want to see. He at least understands that people want to see this kind of stuff.
Lucy: "The body looks a little bit like Clarkson's" Capt. Slow: "Well, the belly isnt big enough..." 1 minute in and we are already roasting Clarkson. Cant get better than this.
I'm so glad that I waited to watch this - I'm having a really difficult day (Tuesday - Saturday were barely any better). I've been crying out in severe pain; painkillers help a bit, but they're not miracle workers in my case (I wish that they were). Anyway, despite the pain, I managed to laugh at James's reaction to the AI images. I agree with Lucy that the last image is the closest representation of James. Btw Lucy - I love your hair
I think because so many of the photos of James online would also have Richard and Jeremy in them then the AI is frequently blending them together. I think the cheeks and alcoholism are coming straight from Clarkson. And the Gin Distillery has definitely got bits of Hammond in it.
This has really cheered me up. James' soothing voice, the clattering in the background, the neighbours walking past, the way AI gets things slightly wrong which in faces always seems to make things very wrong. Plus, I am doing some plastering and the patch on the wall near Lucy has cheered me up no end.
It's very clear that the AI is combining James and Clarkson, probably because there's so many images of them together. Probably a bit of Hammond in there too, but it's harder to pick out.
Which goes to show how dumb AI really is. Can't even distinguish between different people on the same photo, by process of elimination. After all, not all pictures of James on the internet are together with the other two blokes.
His fuddy-duddyness (an old reference, but he's an older gentleman) is entertaining, because he really doesn't G.A.F. about it, but at the same time has these weird, random pet peeves he rants on about. That randomness is hilarious.
If you want to do a part 2, and show james why artists are worried. Train the ai first with a bunch of recent pictures where it's just him in the frame. The current model is working off whatever picture was labelled with james may, and odds are there were two other blokes in the shot
I was really hoping it would be James reacting to those amazingly terrifying, AI top gear videos that have been floating around recently, altho they're all very crass but could be funny
Lucy, none of them looked like James but they were so blooming funny and James's reaction to them was hilarious, especially that first one. Just laughing so much at this video, absolutely epic. More like this please 🤣🤣
In general the generated ones look like May had a secret love child with Richard Branson. Also, the last picture had a drink that looked almost identical to what May was drinking IRL.
I reckon when the AI searched it found lots of photos with the three presenters in and combined the features from all the photos into one, which included younger versions of them all too.
kind of interesting to see how normal folks don't realise how astounding this tech is, and how rapidly it's gone from non-existent, to absolutely terrible, to vaguely passable, and should keep improving until it's incredible. Similar to how GPT-2 was like a fever dream, then Chat GPT basically passed the Turing test
It did look like him. The last one I mean. And yeah we somewhat should worry, AI is meant to learn, the longer it's here, the more it learns, the better it gets, it's like a (most of them) human.
I think the oil painting version looks the most like James, apart from the chin line. Not the last picture. The alcoholic penchant is probably because of all the drink-related parameters in the prompts!
Despite these disappointing works, there is a video titled _AI writes an episode of Top Gear_ in which the dialogue is spot on. James should definitely check that out.
James May complaining about the red tint indicating alcoholism, while the AI is bombarded with requests to generate pictures of him that all associate him with alcohol in one way or another.
Someone needs to explain to May that the chubby cheeks looking like an alcoholic is what he actually looks like to everyone except him, he permanently looks like he's been drinking his own gin for the last 24 hours
I was just innocently watching this, came to the first AI generated image, and produced my own real life compilation reel of James May laughing uncontrollably for five minutes
Yes I think the last one looked most like James and wasn't that far off... and yes. I think given the direction of robotics, AI and our habit of creating wars, we should be very worried indeed 🤔
I agree Lucy. The last one was definitely the one that looked the most like him. 90% correct. With some minor touch up it would be closer to perfect. Nice to see you in the video Lucy.
I think James had wrong expectations from an AI generated image. You should not expect the accuracy of a photograph, but rather a portrait made by a mildly talented artist.
I think, while the AI is not getting it right now, it is effectively a child and will terrifyingly learn and expand. That's when it will become a problem. They age so fast.
Don't worry, these kind of systems have been at the level of "a child" for several decades and nothing is changing any time soon at all, sensationalist media is greatly overselling the capabilities and intended use cases of AI at the moment because drama sells, but don't be fooled.
AI can do this much better, but you have to train it. This seems to be from a universal generator, which could just be replicating from 10 images that have been tagged james may during its training. Which is why it seems to generate the same wrong face.
What? We need some germans to steal him, hide him in a billionaires mansion, and leave an AI replica of him for the internet? I think it's been done mate. Bazos did that on Day One of the Grand Tour. Everything since then has been holywood CGI. Enjoy the conspiracy.
I find it humorous that he's convinced that A.I. is trying to portray him as an alcoholic but doesn't comment on the fact that around 80% of the prompts the A.I. was given includes the description of him holding, drinking or being in the general vicinity of alcohol. No driving cars James May, or flying planes James May, or fishing in a tiny green boat in the middle of the ocean James May...nooope, just boozey summery vibes and then space for some reason.
AI has come a long way in a short space of time. Difficult to guess what it will look like even by this time next year, much less what it will be like in 5 or 10 years. As soon as someone figures out how to really make money out of it or reliably replace people with it then it'll probably advance at even more of a lightning pace.
While I would agree that none of these would be mistaken for real pictures of James, you also can easily see that he was the intent, and the last one was really quite close.
Some fairly pathetic prompting if we're being honest. You could try literally anything that you can imagine and the best you can do is five iterations of "photo of James May with gin".
Many of James' AI generated photos seemed to look like Clarkson dressing up as James May. For example, the first one looked uncannily like Clarkson with long hair and a goatie.
My answer to Lucy's final question is NO. Also, the particular AI needs to be aware of many more images of James before it will be getting really accurate with its own versions of him.
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I think this proves that I'll watch anything with James May.
I'll 74th that
I will 1.3k that after watching the great model train race.
COCKING NORA.
Me too. Literally anything.
I knew that 30 min into him assembling a mini bike
AI Generated Top Gear is actually brilliant.
"You can take my life, but you can't take my cheese." - AI generated James May
It's brilliant 👏
Perhaps its best if he never discovers AI Bollock's channel :P
"Hammond, you idiot, everyone knows that bricks are edible. Look, delicious!"
- A.I. generated Jeremy Clarkson
The Stig is replaced with a giant tub of Lurpak spreadable butter invented in 1901.
"And the ambulance crossed the line"
I think James is tagged in so many photos with Hammond and Clarkson it pulls some of their features into his AI likeness.
I was thinking the same
There's a lot of hammond in a few of the last ones
@@SodaGGThat would explain the gigantic gin bottle.
Particularly in the "distillery" one@@SodaGG
The BBQ pic was the Orangutan's posture.
I just want to say how cool it is how james puts up and reacts with all this internet nonsense and meme culture. Rarely we get celebrities that are so open to do stuff their fans want to see. He at least understands that people want to see this kind of stuff.
Can we break the AI by doing this?
A picture of James May with shoulder length hair reacting to a poorly rendered AI of himself
genius
James Mayception
Brilliant
I hope Lucy Brown is reading this!
I tried it. the results are terrifying and look nothing like James May 😂😂
Sure this has been said already, but someone needs to show James the AI generated TopGear episodes and film his reaction.
I was hoping that was what this was.
James is so random no one can really replace him, not even AI
I didn't know James was a gamer, funny idea to stick Glados in at the end.
COCKING NORA.
I mean nothing can be replaced with AI. Worthless technology. Save the planet instead so we can keep driving cool cars.
@@stradivarius151 AI can replace bad teammates in any video game.
Give it a week.
Would've been fun to put a real picture of him in the mix and see his reaction ;)
yesssssss
Lucy: "The body looks a little bit like Clarkson's"
Capt. Slow: "Well, the belly isnt big enough..."
1 minute in and we are already roasting Clarkson. Cant get better than this.
The segway from 'alcoholic' to Clarkson caught my attention first
The 'segue'. Thing is, Lucy's absolutely right. AI thinks James and Clarkson are somehow one person
@@sianwarwick633 : Delighted I didn't have to scroll too far down in the comments to see this observation. 😆
This man is endlessly entertaining, more stuff like this please 😂
They somehow make James May look like a mix between Santa and an American.
I thought the same. Definitely a Father Christmas vibe on all the photos 😄
I thought some of them looked like a cross between James May and the actor Sam Neil.
lolololol yup!
The last one looks like a morph of James and Richard, so the latter checks out
With that american being Jeff Bridges
I'm so glad that I waited to watch this - I'm having a really difficult day (Tuesday - Saturday were barely any better). I've been crying out in severe pain; painkillers help a bit, but they're not miracle workers in my case (I wish that they were).
Anyway, despite the pain, I managed to laugh at James's reaction to the AI images.
I agree with Lucy that the last image is the closest representation of James.
Btw Lucy - I love your hair
I think because so many of the photos of James online would also have Richard and Jeremy in them then the AI is frequently blending them together. I think the cheeks and alcoholism are coming straight from Clarkson. And the Gin Distillery has definitely got bits of Hammond in it.
Lol. That sounds right.
That's Hammond's teeth as well.
This has really cheered me up. James' soothing voice, the clattering in the background, the neighbours walking past, the way AI gets things slightly wrong which in faces always seems to make things very wrong. Plus, I am doing some plastering and the patch on the wall near Lucy has cheered me up no end.
It's very clear that the AI is combining James and Clarkson, probably because there's so many images of them together. Probably a bit of Hammond in there too, but it's harder to pick out.
I think some of the pictures has sort of Hammond’s hairstyle, only gray
If the AI has white teeth, it mixed Hammond's.
Which goes to show how dumb AI really is. Can't even distinguish between different people on the same photo, by process of elimination. After all, not all pictures of James on the internet are together with the other two blokes.
yea
Hammond is in the pictures, he’s just below the bottom of the picture
Ai : ah yes that alcoholic
Having sat through this to the end, is proof that even something idiotic like this.. I will still watch Mr. May because he's THAT entertaining.
His fuddy-duddyness (an old reference, but he's an older gentleman) is entertaining, because he really doesn't G.A.F. about it, but at the same time has these weird, random pet peeves he rants on about. That randomness is hilarious.
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So, basically, AI cannot tell the difference between James May, Robert Plant, and Eddie Izzard,
I can't tell them apart either.
Or Bernard Hill or Billy Connolly.
If James May and Billy Connolly had a love child.
..Jay Leno's chin....
I thought just looks like Billy Connolly
And the space one is Cesar Millan.
That’s exactly what I thought
Spot on
AI thinking James May is an alcoholic for 13 minutes straight:
Get James to try cheese from around the world
🤣🤣
😂
Careful, he'll make James Gin Cheese
8:18 that's James May and Sting combined
It looks like don johnson 🤣🤣🤣
Would love to see a video where a professional photographer recreates these scenes with the real James May, and compares the results to the AI
Along with a comparison of the money and time spent.
yes!!
With a portrait artist doing one of James in oil paints.
02:47 pretty sure that's Clarkson's cheek. AI is picking up Clarkson in photos of May like a fly in a teleportation pod.
The last one looks like if James May had a secret side gig as a Richard Hammond impersonator .
If you want to do a part 2, and show james why artists are worried. Train the ai first with a bunch of recent pictures where it's just him in the frame. The current model is working off whatever picture was labelled with james may, and odds are there were two other blokes in the shot
Fantastic video! Would love to see a Clarkson & Hammond version eventually too haha
Yes. This please.
I really want to see that. LOL.
James May kinda looks like a Gandalf-ized version of Obi Wan Kenobi being old
I was really hoping it would be James reacting to those amazingly terrifying, AI top gear videos that have been floating around recently, altho they're all very crass but could be funny
Truly this is one of the videos with content of all time.
This shows that Ai can never replace the greatness that is James May.
9:28 I think AI just has the anime styled hair-type in mind, since he looks like Dante from Devil May Cry
James's voice is so calm ,I would enjoy his company
Reacting to the AI generated top gear videos would be great
11:42 A rare moment of Lucy sounding like a vivid butterfly. Lovely!
She’s a robot
must be, she doesnt like food.
Lucy, none of them looked like James but they were so blooming funny and James's reaction to them was hilarious, especially that first one. Just laughing so much at this video, absolutely epic. More like this please 🤣🤣
The face looks like James. The hair is always terrible though it never seems too understand "light grey" or if it does it gives him short hair.
yesssysyssysys
In general the generated ones look like May had a secret love child with Richard Branson.
Also, the last picture had a drink that looked almost identical to what May was drinking IRL.
I was thinking Noel Edmunds but yes!
he looks like Richard Branson anyway lol
I've just seen the Clarkson AI singing My Way, please get him to react to that
and angels thats the funniest video ever
The gin distillery was definitely a crossed James and Richard. Some of the images did look like James more than he thought
I reckon when the AI searched it found lots of photos with the three presenters in and combined the features from all the photos into one, which included younger versions of them all too.
kind of interesting to see how normal folks don't realise how astounding this tech is, and how rapidly it's gone from non-existent, to absolutely terrible, to vaguely passable, and should keep improving until it's incredible. Similar to how GPT-2 was like a fever dream, then Chat GPT basically passed the Turing test
😂 Laughed to tears. Great video idea. James can never be replaced!
This is much more entertaining than I thought it would be 😂
I thmk James' summing up of the photos as bollocks was very accurate
literally looks like it has blended May, Clarkson and Hammond all together, and some of them look even like Richard Branson in there aswell haha
Now I want to see a video of James May reacting to him reacting to these images.
Great video. A lot of the images I would recognise as James May. Hope for more food content but still a fantastic channel.
When AI generates wax statues of James May and we all got the same reaction of the trio in the wax museum.
It did look like him. The last one I mean.
And yeah we somewhat should worry, AI is meant to learn, the longer it's here, the more it learns, the better it gets, it's like a (most of them) human.
Does the AI version drive extremely slow like the real one?
Self-driving AI based on James May's driving style, at least it wouldn't have a habit of crashing though.
Last one looks like James and George Clooney was melted into one face. A Clooney-ish James.
I think the oil painting version looks the most like James, apart from the chin line. Not the last picture. The alcoholic penchant is probably because of all the drink-related parameters in the prompts!
Fly in the background is making me crazy, but i enjoy lucys calmness.
Her arm movements usually make me nervous (she great though)
For a moment I thought I had some tiny creature walking over my laptop screen
Despite these disappointing works, there is a video titled _AI writes an episode of Top Gear_ in which the dialogue is spot on.
James should definitely check that out.
Yes it is cold
@@imallfordabulls "why do you need to do that?"
James May complaining about the red tint indicating alcoholism, while the AI is bombarded with requests to generate pictures of him that all associate him with alcohol in one way or another.
The first one was what happens if you fuse Jeremy Clarkson and James May. 🤣
The second was a bunch of people cosplaying as James May
I‘m guessing, the AI researched a picture of „James May“, got one with Clarkson in it as well and picked the wrong body.
They were all really the same sort of prompt. Just bars and beers. Should have been more imaginative
Looks like the AI was combining James May and Billy Connolly for a lot of them 😂
They tend to look like if Hammond and May had a lovechild.
A 55 year old James May with shoulder length grey hair sitting in a pub in denial about how accurately AI pictured him.
I would love to see the trio trying AI to roast each other
Someone needs to explain to May that the chubby cheeks looking like an alcoholic is what he actually looks like to everyone except him, he permanently looks like he's been drinking his own gin for the last 24 hours
James may with shouler length hair morphed with jimmy corkhill in the style of an oil painting 6:25
Really great idea for a video loved this one. James's reactions were perfect 😂
The prompts weren't weird enough.
02:18 James May + Billy Connolly Mashup.
I was just innocently watching this, came to the first AI generated image, and produced my own real life compilation reel of James May laughing uncontrollably for five minutes
Yes I think the last one looked most like James and wasn't that far off... and yes. I think given the direction of robotics, AI and our habit of creating wars, we should be very worried indeed 🤔
I was hoping it was the 'AI Top Gear' vids that have recently been doing the rounds..
I agree Lucy. The last one was definitely the one that looked the most like him. 90% correct. With some minor touch up it would be closer to perfect. Nice to see you in the video Lucy.
We'll leave the _minor touch up_ to you.
I think James had wrong expectations from an AI generated image. You should not expect the accuracy of a photograph, but rather a portrait made by a mildly talented artist.
5:14 looks like a bad Coke-a-cola santa
I think, while the AI is not getting it right now, it is effectively a child and will terrifyingly learn and expand. That's when it will become a problem. They age so fast.
Don't worry, these kind of systems have been at the level of "a child" for several decades and nothing is changing any time soon at all, sensationalist media is greatly overselling the capabilities and intended use cases of AI at the moment because drama sells, but don't be fooled.
AI can do this much better, but you have to train it. This seems to be from a universal generator, which could just be replicating from 10 images that have been tagged james may during its training. Which is why it seems to generate the same wrong face.
In ten years, I will ask AI to make another season of Man Lab.
Yep, even in their infancy, the true potential of AI is beyond our understanding.
@@JC_WT look up "The Jupiter Brain"
When did James front Led Zeppelin?
Absolutely silly!!!! Laughed SO hard!
"So there you have it would never get past any editor"
James may literally any time he wraps up reviewing a car: So there you have it!
James May is really turning into a genuine National Treasure.
What? We need some germans to steal him, hide him in a billionaires mansion, and leave an AI replica of him for the internet? I think it's been done mate. Bazos did that on Day One of the Grand Tour. Everything since then has been holywood CGI. Enjoy the conspiracy.
Most of them looked like Hibernicised versions of James May.
The last one is bang on lol.. "it still looks like I have alcoholism" as he has two drinks on the table.. 😆
I'd swear the AI is combining James with Clarkson and Hammond.
The first few had me in tears of laughter😂😂
Last picture. Only the eyes look the same. Ish
9:01 James Anime
The last one actually looks like james may mixed with richard hammond
That’s not James, it’s Bim.
I find it humorous that he's convinced that A.I. is trying to portray him as an alcoholic but doesn't comment on the fact that around 80% of the prompts the A.I. was given includes the description of him holding, drinking or being in the general vicinity of alcohol. No driving cars James May, or flying planes James May, or fishing in a tiny green boat in the middle of the ocean James May...nooope, just boozey summery vibes and then space for some reason.
I love James and Lucy talking about anything.
AI has come a long way in a short space of time. Difficult to guess what it will look like even by this time next year, much less what it will be like in 5 or 10 years. As soon as someone figures out how to really make money out of it or reliably replace people with it then it'll probably advance at even more of a lightning pace.
While I would agree that none of these would be mistaken for real pictures of James, you also can easily see that he was the intent, and the last one was really quite close.
Imagine him and Hammond watching the AI Top Gear episodes...
Some fairly pathetic prompting if we're being honest. You could try literally anything that you can imagine and the best you can do is five iterations of "photo of James May with gin".
Many of James' AI generated photos seemed to look like Clarkson dressing up as James May. For example, the first one looked uncannily like Clarkson with long hair and a goatie.
That first pic had me laughing far too long. Looks like you just finished the entire bottle.
Or a lemonpost.
apology accepted
Please get James to react to those bonkers AI generated Top Gear episodes!
Last one absolutely looks like James May without glasses on
AI is just a newborn baby right now and it can do pretty amazing stuff already. Imagine what will it be capable of in the future😲
The last one looked like a love child between James May and Paul Hollywood with a suspicious pinch of Warren Gatland
My answer to Lucy's final question is NO. Also, the particular AI needs to be aware of many more images of James before it will be getting really accurate with its own versions of him.
It's the cheekbones and the eyebrows that are wrong. Resemblance yes, completely accurate, no. Nowhere as beautiful as you!
Seeing alot of clarksons features in these AI images
@ 9:01 it's a weird morph of May and Hammond