Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: AI
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I know it's a relatively slow news week in technology, but this story going viral seems so silly: Artists in Colorado are up in arms over the first-prize winner at the annual state fair’s art competition: a digital collage made by artificial intelligence. The work, titled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, is attributed to Jason Allen via Midjourney,…
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One bright thing. #midjourney #midjourneyAi pic.twitter.com/0gy6imYdPK — Arden_AiArt (@mj_arden) August 24, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js SLer Kala Bijoux has been playing around with Midjourney, the AI image generator featured as an art tool here last week, posting many of the most amazing results to her Twitter account. She very helpfully sent along some tips for people getting…
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Really smart points by reader "Liv", on whether AI generated images like Dr. Nettrice Gaskins' Midjourney-based works can be called art: Like all artforms new technology comes along, and equivalent debates arise in different fields. “Is electronic music really music?” Same question. Some people will always value craft (or instrumentalism, in the music case) and…
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Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, an acclaimed Afrofuturist scholar who pioneered the Deep Dream neural network as an art medium back in 2019, is now experimenting with Midjourney, the new AI project that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to generate new imagery. The results, some of which you can see here, are deliriously stunning. Nettrice's image…
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As a fun companion video to two themes discussed last week, the future of art in the AI era, and the future of 3D creation on next gen metaverse platforms, here's both at the same time: A guy creating builds in Fortnite Creative based on images suggested by Dall-E mini. The images themselves are pretty…
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From AM Radio's Flickr Update, 7/15: Bumped up as long-ish weekend read and conversation for the weekend! Jeffrey Berg, the artist and technologist who became famous as the Metaverse artist known as "AM Radio", a Second Life avatar who created profoundly surreal and poignant immersive installations like "The Faraway" (above), a rusty train lost in…
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Smart thoughts from reader and tech exec veteran Luther Weymann, reflecting on the questions of AI sentience brought up by a recent Washington Post story on the Google developer who believes the company's chat bot has already achieved it: Artificial intelligence programs running on machines use databases on computer systems to receive instruction for action…
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Update, 5:55pm: I'm now in an interesting conversation with Lemoine on Twitter, who insists that (despite the article strongly implying otherwise), "My opinions about LaMDA's personhood and sentience are based on my religious beliefs." In case you missed the weekend buzz on social media, this fascinating Washington Post feature tells the story of Blake Lemoine,…
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Here's Meta's latest Metaverse technology announcements dealing with AI solutions. To no one's surprise, the company is fully open about their plans to leverage highly personal data of what people see how and they use their bodies while in their metaverse platform. (A coming crisis people like Avi Bar-Zeev have been screaming about for years.)…
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Ask Delphi is a very interesting artificial intelligence project being chattered about on Twitter recently. Very roughly summarized, the machine learning program compiles a wide variety of ethical questions and answers drawn from Reddit's infamous Am I the Asshole community, along with others online sources, and synthesizes them into a database that can be queried…
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