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AI Training Datasets: the Books1+Books2 that Big AI eats for breakfast
It’s good to know, when dealing with an AI, just how it obtained its vast knowledge of “the world.” (or more particularly, the world as described on the internet… which, while similar to our physical reality, isn’t quite the same thing…) And as you might imagine, not all AIs are created equal. One of the…
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“It’s AI Plagiarism!” …debunked
Understanding Human Reaction to Generative Creative Output The initial astonishment of seeing AI art… so-called generative imagery. The fascination. The participation. (Lensa?) The virtue-signalling journalists. The complaining artists. The rallying cry: AI plagiarism! …That’s the base accusation. I’ve heard it so many times now, from so many different fronts (artists, journalists, pundits, podcasters, “influencers”… even…
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Reality Check: Calibration Targets for Generative AI (AI Artbots)
Being so close to the generative AI space, sometimes you get vertigo. It just seems like the milestone advances, which used to break through every decade or so, are coming daily… on some days, even hourly. You get the feeling that something… something has… happened. Something profound that took A.I. from a slow slog through…
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Script to Movie AI v0.9 alpha is Here… Thesis, Proven
SYNOPSIS: In 2022, “AI Art” was all the rage — pretty pictures and paintings and “virtual photographs” created in an instant by generative AI agents, guided by nothing more than tweet-length text prompts (mostly) written by humans. In 2023, we expect an even bigger wave to hit the internets: AI Movies, or generative video… aka…
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AI Evolution: What Happens 2021-2030 (a Roadmap to the Singularity)
The AI Evolution is upon us……and this cat is way way way out of the bag. 2022’s not even done yet, and what a year it’s been already:DALL•E 2, MidJourney 4, Imagen, DreamFusion… GPT-4? At this point, before things get any more insane (as, per Moore’s Law, they are pretty much guaranteed to do), its…
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Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?
There’s a new sheriff in town, kids. Justs the other day, I learned of a new field of study, replete with PhD candidates and its own scholarly journal: Its called… wait for it: “computational neuroscience for AI minds.” The article was detailing the bizarre near-total opacity of the AI brain and how scientists were working…
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Things are About to get Weird AF… and Weirder still.
So, given the AI’s exponential growth, and its insatiable appetite for content (and our utter willingness — even enthusiasm — to feed it), where are we now? And more importantly, where will we be in the next 12 months & 12 years? One thing’s for sure: If you think it’s weird now?… Its about to…
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The Future of AI Training Data 2023: The Untapped Digital Content Well
Scientists say “AI Training Data”…we say: “It ate the Internet.” All the Text, All the Songs, All the Streams, All the Feeds… ALL THE EVERYTHING The particular entity I’m conversing with these days (c. November 2022) is a 5 year old bot, very un-creatively named “GPT3,” which was instantiated c.MMXVII [AD 2017]. In general, the…
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AI Art : The Second Renaissance : AD 2022
That same general purpose AI that mastered — totally mastered — the “logical” game of chess, has now been directed at a far hairier, more analog, more “human” challenge: the fine arts, including drawing, painting, photography, illustration, and yes — even sculpture and its digital cousin, 3d modeling. Although it goes by many names, most…
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Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.
SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…
