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by xor99 4y ago
Yeah sampling and remixing are actually extremely similar to one aspect of DALL-E's overall system. Sure its more technically impressive but from a HCI point of view you are really just sampling via text based input all be it with much
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by xor99 4y ago
That's a good point. In a way DALL-E just shifts the burden of creativity on to how someone can come up with and idea and translate that into written language.
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by xor99 4y ago
Yeah and it'll evolve unexpectedly but not in a way that most artists can't adapt to or develop a practice with. I just don't agree with the idea that DALL-E is art poison. That's overly simplistic and reactionary and no
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by xor99 4y ago
I mean it in the sense that using digital technologies to produce art is not always going to be interesting. I don't mean that I will never find any digital art interesting though. Distilled to one point: DALL-E does not wholesale capt
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by xor99 4y ago
A Ferrari is a luxury item. The exhibition was free but you could pay to stay the night. The guy also designs slides and the tone of his exhibition style is not "high art". Ultimately you are talking about art as a product and tha
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by xor99 4y ago
Oke I see what you mean, but isn't that just a reproduction in physical form? They have Warholised painting with 3D printers by creating a systematic method to reproduce art using a new combination of craft. I like it but it's not
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by xor99 4y ago
Digital art is not permanently interesting. My sympathies go out to people who feel like they will lose some of their business. However, a group of developers has shown what was always true about digital art: its computational art even if y
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by xor99 4y ago
My sentiments exactly. It's a wealth porn magazine and they don't even want to hide that so it's not even an insult.
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by xor99 4y ago
Bullshit article from a bullshit website! The idea that everyone is now some slouchy, pot bellied, dry eyed slob as a result of WFH is just insulting people's intelligence.
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by xor99 4y ago
The headline is declaring that "self-taught" (digital) AI shows similarities to how the brain works and as a result misrepresents research in this field because this is not scientific fact. It's a metaphor, literally. Oversta
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by xor99 4y ago
Title of the Metamers paper (which sounds really interesting) referenced in the text: "Model metamers illuminate divergences between biological and artificial neural networks". This is literally the opposite of the main editorial
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by xor99 4y ago
The negative-interrogative for the first-person singular present indicative or "amn't" is historically supported and is evidenced in Scots and Hiberno english.
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by xor99 4y ago
In Scottish and Hiberno-English the negative-interrogative for the first-person singular present indicative or "amn't" is perfectly correct. Ain't is the common term everywhere else.
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by xor99 4y ago
There are electrostatic MEMs devices so it would scale well with a flexible material and the dielectric inserted in some way. These smaller devices are lower voltage (90-100V versus 6-10kV in the above) and require the use of a converter. T
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by xor99 4y ago
Game design, some animation, news article drawings, scientific illustrations, ui elements, apps, etc are exactly what it's good for and that's great. AI image generation will be a hit and make things more interesting to look at on
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by xor99 4y ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aar3276 This is some really cool work in that direction. Very high voltages though as usual.
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by xor99 4y ago
Neurosis
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by xor99 4y ago
The metaverse and web3 will make life worse (e.g. gradual loss of body and neuroprivacy, home privacy, financial privacy etc) and have a ridiculously high energy cost
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by xor99 4y ago
Garageband and Fruity loops are classic examples of this in music, I don't really find this surprising
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by xor99 4y ago
The crackpot village sandwich committee are in charge in the U.K. rn. This typify's it. These people are fully ENGERBRAINED and dangerous (Ameribrainer's more stuffy and polite transatlantic cousins).
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by xor99 4y ago
What are the main differences between programmable resistors and varistors or photoresistors? I guess presence of volatile/non-volatile memory, smaller scale size and maybe lower voltage operation (e.g. compared to varistors)?
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by xor99 4y ago
Yes, "synthetic analogy" or something similar would be more appropriate. I guess artificial synapse always means an approximation (e.g. if its similar it's only in some partial way: the device uses ionic transport etc). I thi
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by xor99 4y ago
I kind of like it tbh! Great talk, I have barely any extensions installed right now and look forward to using some of these.
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by xor99 4y ago
It's got to be a combination of both (e.g. made from wood and shaped like a ball but feels like this in this room etc) but maybe that is too neurotic and not conducive to new aesthetic experience. I think my pattern recognition for gen
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by xor99 4y ago
That makes a lot of sense!
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by xor99 4y ago
Yep true
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by xor99 4y ago
As an activity art implements ideas that have been formulated conceptually previously ("conceptual" here could be a drunk artist taking a pic of their butt and isn't philosophical + more related to surprisal). The immediately
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by xor99 4y ago
I think these basic arguments are valuable and musicians should be focussed on whether a better understanding of music theory actually produces music with desirable qualities such as surprisal (e.g. that moment when Dj Screw slowed the reco
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by xor99 4y ago
Oh you have me there! Things that are boring (to me) are not fun (to me). If you find it fun then great :) This area of art has stagnated horrifically and because it is art as well as programming it should be critiqued via that other angle
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by xor99 4y ago
Why? Shouldn't you think about whether this style is over in terms of its contribution to art? Sure all the cool AI companies drop "generative" in their press stuff but is it interesting anymore? The main advances were made i

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