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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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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…
