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The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art
- spencerflem 5y agoIt's crazy how far & fast AI art has come. I still love the deep dream style tho :) Feels the most like the AI is coming up with it's own art by itself for other AIs which I find just the right amount of unsettling Can't wait to try out the colab links later today! Thanks so much for the great article :)
- JJMcJ 5y agoInteresting article. But the web page itself: the PageDown key doesn't work for scrolling, though the arrow keys do.
- marban 5y ago"Art is what you can get away with" — A.W.
- woldenron 5y agoIt's not AI.
- mdp2021 5y agoIt is called in this specific sense of the term 'intelligent' the entity which writes the implementation of a function from some input to some intended output; the engineer which creates a writer of functions from some input to some intended output is said to have created an "intelligence". If somebody wears a thicker coat during a "cold war", the problem is not considered terminological.
- moultano 5y agoYou all might enjoy some of the things I've made with it. Tour of the Sacred Library — A short story illustrated with VQGAN+CLIP https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/tour-of-the-sacred-library/ https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/tour-of-the-sacred... Doorways — A series of images exploring "semantic symmetry" using CLIP's embeddings to do visual analogy completion. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/doorways/ https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/doorways/ Depth of Field — Exploring the scale of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image using CLIP guided diffusion to create visual analogies. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/depth-of-field/ https://moultano.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/depth-of-field/
- enriquto 5y agoWhy don't you share the exact code for these experiments so that anybody can reproduce them? (and tweak them!)
- corysama 5y agoPretty sure Moultano's Tour was made with a hosted version of the original VQGAN+CLIP method https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15UwYDsnNeldJFHJ9NdgYBYeo6xPmSelP https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15UwYDsnNeldJFHJ9Ndg... Though that method and implementation is quite old. If you want an up-to-date list of open implementations, it's here https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html Whatever is the newest Disco Diffusion has been the best around for the past few iterations.
- moultano 5y agoFor the first and third, I can't, it isn't my code. For the second, I have to get approval from my employer to release it, but I stalled out half way through the paperwork and haven't had the energy to keep pushing it forward.
- forsythe_ 5y agoA couple years ago I decided to fork StyleGAN, optimistic to kick the tires and just see if it would run on my desktop. I got bored after an hour or two and scrapped the setup, having felt it was too complex for someone with a casual interest. Fast-forward to finding the link to NightCafe a half hour ago, where I just had to type a ridiculous phrase for it to spit out something that attempted to match my description after just a few minutes: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/sPsmFbpijhePoRDwqFMY https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/sPsmFbpijhePoRDwqF... Still, I don't see using this for anything more than gags with friends right now. But it's a solid leap forward.
- big_blind 5y agoI've been playing around with the Dall-E 2 website all day. It's simply amazing: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
- KaoruAoiShiho 5y agoWho do I beg to get earlier access?
- elevaet 5y agoI wish there were analogous tools for sound design
- corysama 5y agoAudioCLIP has not received as much attention https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13043 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13043 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLQVh9ABDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLQVh9ABDM
- elevaet 5y agoThanks. I wish I had the time, experience and the brainpower to dive into that and build some Joe Public tools to play around with AudioCLIP.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoIt’s cool to see the impact colab has had here too. It seems like a huge enabler in the art community of people who would otherwise have tons of overhead to play around (getting and setting up the machine and libraries). It’s awesome that google just gives away this scarce resource (gpu cycles) for free.
- holoduke 5y agoA year ago or so there was a video posted about an AI generated video. It was extremely scary. Almost like a emotionless psychopat with absolutely zero feelings towards humans. Anyone remembers where to find it?
- kingcharles 5y agoThere are hundreds on YouTube...
- nix23 5y agoI really don't think it's art, cloud's in the sky are more "creative"
- krapp 5y agoIt looks like art. It acts like art. It stimulates the senses and evokes emotion like art. Whatever "creative" means, either the AI has it, or it isn't really relevant.
- mdp2021 5y agoYou missed the important point: an artistic object is a concretion of a structure of meanings. It takes a proper intelligence to build that - you need conceptual depth, reflection etc.: you have by definition wait for a GAN. To elicit emotions (per se not quite a demanding endeavor) is not sufficient to be qualified as "art".
- nix23 5y agoThat is exceptionally well articulated, fully on your side.
- krapp 5y ago>You missed the important point: an artistic object is a concretion of a structure of meanings. It takes a proper intelligence to build that - you need conceptual depth, reflection etc.: you have by definition wait for a GAN. I didn't miss the point, i'm arguing the point is debatable. There are entire artistic movements whose thesis is to deny the necessity of "meaning" in art, apart perhaps from whatever meaning the viewer imparts to it. If you didn't know some of these works were done by an AI, you would see the 'conceptual depth, reflection, etc.' in them, but that emotional, empathetic connection one has with a work of art is entirely fabricated. These AIs respond to natural language requests in ways that can be indistinguishable from human effort, they pass the Turing Test for creativity without intelligence. So I think it's valid to question whether art necessarily requires any such thing on the part of the "artist" at all, or if we just believe it does because we're afraid that if creativity can be generated by an algorithm, it's just another sign that we're nothing more than deterministic machines ourselves.
- seanwilson 5y ago> ...the main development is the rise of *multimodal learning*. > Multimodal learning, in this case, is learning to match up text and images. Our new models are really good at learning to write captions for images, and (more importantly for artistic purposes) to generate images that correspond to a given caption. Can anyone explain this more? I think I recall Facebook was automatically generating captions for images automatically a good while ago, but this is something different?
- scottmf 5y agohttps://openai.com/blog/clip/ https://openai.com/blog/clip/
- spython 5y agoI've recently had fun using VQGAN + CLIP, combined with slowly zooming in, for an art project on ecology: https://rybakov.com/project/metamorphosis/ https://rybakov.com/project/metamorphosis/
- jxmorris12 5y agoHi, I'm the author of this post. I hope you all enjoy it! I researched and wrote this back in January, and although the main ideas are still relevant, the landscape of AI art generation has changed quite a bit in just three months. Here are some important new developments: - DALL-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ - Midjourney: https://twitter.com/midjourney https://twitter.com/midjourney - Laion 5B dataset: https://laion.ai/laion-5b-a-new-era-of-open-large-scale-multi-modal-datasets/ https://laion.ai/laion-5b-a-new-era-of-open-large-scale-mult... - Compvis latent diffusion: https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion Since the field is moving so quickly, this newsletter is a good way to try to stay on top of things: https://multimodal.art/news https://multimodal.art/news Also I went on Yannic Kilcher's podcast to talk about this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdkenV-ZdJU&ab_channel=YannicKilcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdkenV-ZdJU&ab_channel=Yanni...
- devindotcom 5y agoGlad you did this. I started working on something myself in January as I was dabbling in it but the whole scene was evolving so fast I was like, by the time I write it the piece will seem like a time capsule. The survey/history style is good and educational, maybe this will spur me to put out the effort and do my own..
- mdp2021 5y ago> this newsletter is a good way Thank you! ...RSS? Edit: same "...RSS?" is valid for your blog, at https://jxmo.io/ https://jxmo.io/ ... PS: the article: very precious summary!
- jxmorris12 5y agoI think this link works: https://jxmo.io/feed.xml https://jxmo.io/feed.xml
- mdp2021 5y agoThank you! In case one day you'll want to increase its use, I suggest to put it at least in the homepage source (where we go check if we find there a literal 'rss', or 'feed', or maybe 'xml').
- julieturner99 5y agoThe linked post suggests that AI art started in 2015 (what it labels as "early forms of AI art"). AI art goes back decades--it didn't start with Google. Perhaps the author might want to look a bit further back than seven years.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoThe CLIP stuff has its downside. Much of what I see looks like a collage of real images. Not so much art as graphic design.
- afpx 5y agoThere's certainly a market for AI generated art. But, of all of the AI art that I've looked at, it all lacked "soul". It feels like writing I've read that was generated by GPT-3 - it has a very pleasant way of saying a lot of nothing.
- kingcharles 5y agoMy professional artist friend said the same thing. I don't think anyone could define the term if they wanted to. I see enormous beauty and great "imagination" in what DALLE-2 is producing, e.g.: "Oil painting of a sad girl looking out the window of a school bus" https://twitter.com/jennifermarsman/status/1517597452764954624 https://twitter.com/jennifermarsman/status/15175974527649546... “avocados dancing, drinking, singing and partying at a Hawaiian luau” https://twitter.com/TheRealAdamG/status/1517906900540657665 https://twitter.com/TheRealAdamG/status/1517906900540657665 Can anyone verbalize what these images might lack, or might gain through "soul"? Objective answers only please.
- zuminator 5y agoFor myself, I feel fairly confident that if I were shown a work and had to determine whether it was made by a human or by AI, that I could not reliably do so.
- afpx 5y agoYou may be right. It would be an interesting blind experiment.
- vullaprovarasw2 5y ago
- krapp 5y agoTwitter users should consider following https://twitter.com/rpgmakerai https://twitter.com/rpgmakerai and https://twitter.com/ai_curio https://twitter.com/ai_curio for examples of AI art in their feeds
- jxmorris12 5y agoI have some links in the post! Here are some more good accounts: https://twitter.com/advadnoun https://twitter.com/advadnoun https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings https://twitter.com/danielrussruss https://twitter.com/danielrussruss
- chrisa 5y agoI'll add another - https://twitter.com/PasanenJenni https://twitter.com/PasanenJenni does some fantastic work by combining AI generation with more traditional digital art; great stuff.
- yboris 5y agoI'm not creating it, but I can't stop retweeting all the cool stuff I find: https://twitter.com/whyboris https://twitter.com/whyboris
- scottmf 5y agoI have access to midjourney and have posted some creations https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps e.g., https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps/status/1515977244627382272 https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps/status/151597724462738227...
- supramouse 5y agosearching the same phrases on google images returns more interesting "pre-generated" results
- marcodiego 5y agoAI is doing fine art now. Wait until it learns to write good programs and we're doomed.
- mdp2021 5y ago> AI is doing fine art now (Not really. "Illustration", "graphics", somehow, yes; "fine", maybe; "art", no¹.) > Wait until it learns to write good programs ...and we will be empowered of a power almost unimaginable. -- ¹Well, I just had to be more explicit for a post nearby, so I'll copy that: «[...] an artistic object is a concretion of a structure of meanings. It takes a proper intelligence to build that - you need conceptual depth, reflection etc.: you have by definition wait for a GAN»
- bawolff 5y agoAm i alone in thinking that the older ai art looks artistic, where the newer art just looks like superficial images, which while potentially technically impressive aren't really interesting artisticly interesting.