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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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Genuine Creativity exhibited from AI art automatons : The Case for acknowledging the “Spark”
You see that image above. That “oh so meta” photo of the artist with her own self-portrait painting on an easel? Look again. That image (one of an eerie series by artist Yasmin + MidJourney.AI) — and millions more now auto-propagating across the vast expanse of the internets — is one of the latest fully…
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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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The Prompt is the Genesis Seed 1.1; or, The Language of Visual Riddles
In the middle of the tsunami that is the present day AI.art movement, we have a deceptively simple concept known as “the prompt.” Arguably, it is a simple thing: The prompt is… …essentially, the text message that you write to the AI, instructing it what you want it to make for you. But as with…
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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…