Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: AI
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In case you missed it, here is Ugleh Ulrik's tutorial for using the AI-driven platform Artbreeder to transform avatars. If you have questions about his tutorial, clickthrough here to ask him on YouTube. On Second Life Friends, a large Facebook group for SLers have been using this tutorial t0 turn their avatars into "real" people.…
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Want to turn a Second Life avatar pic into the "photo" of their real life analog? Watch this Artbreeder tutorial from Ugleh Ulrik, the SL creator who first started the whole buzz around using the AI-driven platform to transform avatars. "I do a lot of experimenting with new AI tech," Ulrik tells me, "and once…
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My post last week on Artbreeder, which uses Generative Adversarial Networks to create "children" of an original image, generated a mini-burst of excitement among many in the SL community, who started experimenting with the process to turn pictures of their avatars into "real" people. And the results are pretty mesmerizing! Above is one by Devin Vaughn,…
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What you're watching above is a video from social media influencer Taryn Southern, except not quite: It's a "clone" of Ms. Southern, created via an AI platform called HourOne. "We take a small sample of video footage (ideally captured in a studio, as we did with Taryn), and use our proprietary AI algorithms and generative…
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Afrofuturist artist Nettrice Gaskins, last seen here hosting an art gallery in Second Life since her LA show was cancelled by the pandemic, has a thought-provoking and actually rather thrilling post linking Black Algorithms of the past to the present: Kuba cloth’s complexity derives from semi-symmetric compositions of simple geometric motifs. The semi-symmetry in the…
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This striking abstract painting is by an up-and-coming artist named Taylor; you can bid on it for $200 or more soon, in hopes it becomes a rare collectors’ item that symbolizes the start of a new art movement. Because the thing is, “Taylor” is not an artist and this is not a “painting” as we…
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Caveat emptor and all that, but the iPad LIDAR Scanner just published in Beta seems seriously impressive, able to "capture" real world objects and convert them into imperfect but pretty usable 3D models. It works, says developer Laan Labs, by automatically extracting objects via machine learning (i.e. extrapolating data for unseen surfaces). More info from…
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