What will Blackpool look like in 100 years' time, or even 2000 years? These are the questions we wanted to know the answers to - so we asked an AI art generator to predict our town's future.
In the last year artificial intelligence tools have exploded in popularity following the equally impressive and worrying performance of ChatGPT, which highlighted just how far AI has come in recent years.
Now we have websites like NightCafe, Hotpot.ai, and ChatGBT at our finger tips, that allow us to harness the power of this new and exciting technology.
For this article we visited the NightCafe AI art generator app to find out how accurately it could depict Blackpool in a variety of futures. To achieve this we gave the AI a number of text prompts to work from - here are the interesting results.
7. 'A Blackpool man in the year 3000'
This is what NightCafe came up with when we asked what a Blackpool man would look like in 3000 - he looks like a true warrior! Photo: submit
8. 'Show how Blackpool North Train Station might look in post-apocalyptic times'
This is what Night Cafe predicted for our train station after an apocalypse. It's quite intact, considering Photo: Night Cafe
9. 'Bloomfield Road in 3500'
When we asked NightCafe to create a picture of Blackpool FC's stadium in the year 3500 this is what it came up with. What a place! Check out the planets too... Photo: Submit
10. 'How AI depicted North Pier after war'
This is what North Pier would look like after war, according to artificial intelligence Photo: Submit
11. 'Blackpool town centre as a futuristic utopia'
The future of Blackpool town centre according to the NightCafe tool Photo: NightCafe
12. 'What will Blackpool look like in 50 years time?'
A big change if this was to happen by 2073... Photo: Night Cafe