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AI-GENERATED COIN BOOK COVERSLast week Ron Guth announced that he'd written A Practical Guide To Becoming A Coin Dealer with help from a robot friend. There was no cover illustration yet, so I invited our readers to submit candidates, with or without the help of AI tools. First up is author Gary Beals. -Editor OK robot – here is your book cover — 
Well, what the hell, humans failed me for the most part — In 2015 I put 1,950 hours into my numismatic dictionary plus $8,000 or so in production and printing of 1,000 copies of the 352-page book. I wonder how many hours the robot would have needed? I am happy with my book in spite of the low interest collectors seemed to have in learning more. So if I was to donate a cover idea for a coin dealers book, it would be just like the cover of my actual book, Numiscadero. Mr. Robot would simply direct the cover artwork to drop off the text layer and it would run with the numismatic items and its own cover information The difference – I will let that robot use the experimental blue background version rather than the actual printed one in red. The coins, medals, banknote and ingot face plate are from my collection at the time. I arranged them and a professional photographer took the shot. 
Gary has returned to the U.S. since publishing the book. Copies can be ordered from him at segovia.gary@yahoo.com . -Editor
For more information on Gary's book, see:
Ron Guth writes: "I played around with ChatGPT and came up with the two attached covers. It seems that Dall-E (the image generator in ChatGPT) will come up with a new and different cover over and over again even if you insert the same prompt. The AI will also start throwing some anomalies in there, such as misspellings, missing words, etc.). Even so, the tech is very quick, innovative, and fun to play with." 
Interesting how it picked up the magnifying glass motif! Not bad first efforts. I tried creating an image with DALL-E using Microsoft's Bing and it produced a nice image of "A Practical Guide to Everything." No coins! But it helpfully offered to add a coin image, and this time the results were more reasonable. Still weird, but plausible starting ideas. -Editor 
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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