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Ronin.2023
ronin (n): a Samurai (elite soldier) without allegiance to any Master. One who has either been exiled, or for other reasons has detached from the security, shelter and support of a Lord, and thus freely roams the land, a true Soldier of Fortune — using only his wits, wisdom, and sword to move through the…
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GPT3/411 : look Ma, it talks!
So, about 2 days ago, I took a break from my AI/art explorations, and decided to switch from visual arts to literary arts mode. Whereas DALL-E and MidJourney are my go-tos for the art world, I had already heard about the legendary GPT3, present-day king of the AI natural language world — in layman’s terms,…
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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…
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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…
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AI Chess: A Brief History of a Complicated Game
As long as there have been computers, there have been programmers with dreams of building an app to play chess. Indeed, Chess playing programs have been one of the major testbeds for both programming skills and AI development since the 1950s. And they’ve received various levels of amusement and condemnation from the global chess-playing community…
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The AI Tsunami, Part I
the AI Tsunami: Our Brave New a.i.World & where it’s all Heading [based on a virtual conversation with Tara over coffee & breakfast one morning]2022.10.30 SUN — 07:14 AM PST Once upon a Time… There used to be a profession called painting. The job was, ostensibly, to capture the essence of a person, or an…
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Our Mythic Origin: The Mysterious Place from which All Things Spawn
An origin story gives purpose and meaning to our lives. It matters little the specifics of the story; it matters most that we have one; that it makes sense to our soul. It is our personal myth… our own private mystery, our mythos. Our mythic origin story acts as a polestar in our lives. It…
