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Historian REACTS To Ancient History Slop

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Artificial Intelligence... it's everywhere. But what stage are we truly at? To find out, we asked an AI programme to generate the '7 Wonders of the World' and showed them to ancient historian Tristan Hughes.

How accurate are the images? Watch this video to find out!

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00:00 Introduction
01:32 Hanging Gardens of Babylon
05:55 Lighthouse of Alexandria
10:23 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
15:02 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
19:01 Colossus of Rhodes
25:13 Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
27:22 Statue of Zeus at Olympia
32:55 Conclusion

20 Comments

@catherinerw1 2 years ago

The Hanging Gardens looks like a brutalist car-park overtaken by the jungle...

@jeffrey.a.hanson 2 years ago

“What were they thinking?!” … I hope ‘they’ aren’t thinking anything.

@Beth11271 2 years ago

Would love see your take on the historical setting of Assassins Creed games and how accurate the team at Ubisoft got, specifically Origins (Egypt), Odyssey (Greece) and Mirage (Iraq)

@CarterElkins 1 year ago

My favorite thing about the Colossus comes from Pliny the Elder, who says that Demetrius had to abandon his siege equipment when he left, and that the Rhodians sold this equipment to fund the Colossus. Building a giant victory statue from your enemy’s weapons is such a gigachad move.

@lemon_j22 2 years ago

He doesn't look that ancient to me.

@devanis 1 year ago

a note on the fact that there's no colors whatsoever, Greeks at least painted their temples and statues (in almost gaudy way by today's standard)

@COSMOKRAT_616 1 year ago

The hanging gardens of silicon valley. Thing looks like an office building lol

@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 2 years ago (edited)

My favorite wonder is the Great Pyramid, because it's still around after 5,000 years! Human ingenuity and construction at their finest!

@ClassicalNumismatics 2 years ago (edited)

So glad to see you wearing one of my TShirts! The Ptolemy is a personal favourite as well :)

@Valenskytoporsky 2 years ago

I pray to god history hit will bring back the 48 minute session of the ditch guy

@djowen5192 2 years ago

Looks more like the 'Hanging gardens of Basingstoke '.

@p.s6742 1 year ago (edited)

19:10 I've never seen someone having a heart attack and a stroke at the same time. 😅

@evanhughes7609 2 years ago (edited)

20:28 [I nod, smile, and retire to a safe distance]

32:20 It's clearly a statue of Zeus Polydactylos.

@OrchestreJMT 1 year ago

The thing about the pyramid image is that it shows it after millennia of erosion, not what it would've looked like when it was first built.

@herodotoots 2 years ago

In the tradition of comments you find under AI-generated photos on Facebook:

Beautiful 😍

@saidtoshimaru1832 2 years ago

21:13 - He was known as Demetrius "the besieger" but not the "conqueror" for a reason.

@gryndyl 2 years ago

I would say that the main problem with the depiction of the Pyramid is that it's the only one the AI chose to depict as a ruin rather than drawing what it would have looked like in its prime.

@Anh3d0n14 2 years ago

The Collossus astride the harbour entrance would be pretty dope though

@rosebroady6618 2 years ago

His stunned reaction to the mausoleum. Priceless 😂

@lordofuzkulak8308 2 years ago

17:25 - is it definitive that that was his name then, and not one that those later commentators assigned him because they were fed up of only calling him ‘that guy that burnt that one temple down that one time’ or other euphemisms?