15 posts tagged with AI by doctornemo.
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Robots posing with some butter
Whenever one of these models is upgraded, it becomes less good. Janelle Shane asks software to create novelty sock ideas. Various surreal designs result. ChatGPT appears to like alliteration. [more inside]
Stills from a film made in a parallel timeline
David Cronenberg's Galaxy of Flesh (1985) Keith Schofield used AI art generator Midjourney to produce images from another movie which never existed. (CW Cronenberg body horror, obviously) [more inside]
From Ukraine to deep space
April-June 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Stand by for rocky passengers, glitches, amazing images, a very French rocket name, Earthly politics, and lots of asteroids.
On the Earth In the Himalayas, a liquid mirror telescope came online. France joined the Artemis accords for sustainable space exploration. BRICS nations announced a new space agreement: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. [more inside]
On the Earth In the Himalayas, a liquid mirror telescope came online. France joined the Artemis accords for sustainable space exploration. BRICS nations announced a new space agreement: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. [more inside]
Measure me! Improve your qubit manufacturing!
From the people who brought you "A Dark Room." The Qubit Game is a little game where you protect linnocent-looking qubits from villainous heat blobs. Along the way you measure and store information, dread cosmic rays, and learn about quantum coherence, entanglement, helium coolant, and laser cooling. Then things ratchet up. [more inside]
Black Holes Are Strange Little Robots, by Xaviera P. Gomez
Title ideas for my science fiction novel. Something more mysterious or something less obvious. Lewis Hackett (Twitter) uses several applications to help him create new paperback covers of 1970s science fiction. [more inside]
if human: kill()
Slaughterbots 2. The Future of Life Institute follows up on their 2017 video about autonomous killer drones.
(previously)
Lycoperdons, the tiny deadly puffballs, are on the march again
An AI riffs on 2020. Janelle Shane (previously; Twitter) fed GPT-3 headlines from this annus horribilis to see what kind of 2020ish titles it would generate. [more inside]
Handkerchief flirting codes of the far future
Behold! There is no one: How might one update Victorian flirting codes? Janelle Shane (previously) to the rescue, teaching a neural network how to send and decode naughty signals "with fans, parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs." [more inside]
warning our descendants away from a place
Planet of Ails How can we warn people away from a dangerous site for 10,000 years? Inspired by a 1993 report, Janelle Shane (previously; Twitter) asks a neural net (GPT-3) to generate some plans. [more inside]
You are the bot that fails the Turing Test
Which AI are you? Janelle Shane (previously; Twitter) led her neural network to produce a somewhat surreal personality quiz. [more inside]
AI nationalism or AI without borders?
New Manhattan Projects. Ian Hogarth (Twitter) explores how increasingly important AI can play a role in a new geopolitics. [more inside]
although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones
Coditany of Timeness Two technologists trained a neural network to produce a black metal album.
They started with a pre-existing recording, cut it into tiny tracks, then taught the software to arrange the clips into convincing music. Here's their paper. [more inside]
They started with a pre-existing recording, cut it into tiny tracks, then taught the software to arrange the clips into convincing music. Here's their paper. [more inside]
and I have one last nightmare about my last dream.
Telling Halloween stories with an AI. Shelley.ai is an MIT project training software to help write scary stories for Halloween inspired by r/NoSleep. [more inside]
When Chinese and American AI rule the world
A new geopolitics based on emerging tech. After sharing some commonplaces about AI, Kai-Fu Lee (Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft, Google China, now venture capital) offers an intriguing idea. Maybe China and the United States will evolve into new forms of planetary hegemons thanks to their AI supremacy. [more inside]
his unblinking stare
Portrait of a would-be world-changer Who is Sam Altman, the new head of Y Combinator? What does he want to do/for all of us? New Yorker portrait by Tad Friend. [more inside]
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