Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: AI
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My call for works of AI-based fine art came up with only a few scant examples (besides Nettrice Gaskins), but this artist definitely qualifies: Niceaunties, who expresses her family dynamics and Singapore/Chinese culture through various artificial intelligence programs. Like the one above, "We Are Good": "We are Good' is a story set in the Auntieverse…
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Right: Dr. Nettrice Gaskin's Deep Dream-driven portrait of Kendrick Lamar — AI-based art that preceded Midjourney and other generative AI platforms. Generative AI platforms like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have been available for general use for about 2-3 years, and in terms of content created, we're seeing a cascade of imagery that mostly fit in…
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The woman in this picture doesn't exist, but the embedded Second Life avatar does. SL fashionista Gogo of Juicy Bomb used it as the base for creating the startingly life-like simulacra. To do this, she uploaded the Second Life screenshot into Leonardo.AI:
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Reader Nadeja concurs with Linden Lab staffer "Soft" on the value of using Large Language Models to help with creating/exploring Second Life related content — and has further tips, especially for Microsoft's LLM Copilot: I was doing similar things for months. For small scripts and functions, GPT-4 is a time saver, it can also handle…
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ChatGPT might seem pretty useless for a legacy virtual world like Second Life (I certainly thought so last year), but recent updates have somewhat changed my mind. In his off-hours, Linden Lab's infosec head (known by his avatar, Soft Linden) has been playing around with OpenAI's Large Language Model, and discovered some pretty impressive Second…
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Matrix Resurrections artwork by Reid Southern (copyright Warner Brothers) Midjourney plans to make some kind of open world “holodeck”, as CEO David Holz confirmed with me earlier this month. But that actually just begs the question: Can it even feasibly do so? The company is already careening toward IP infringement challenges for its 2D image…
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Problem: Machinima is an amazing use case for metaverse platforms, enabling people to create high quality narrative videos on a low budget — if only, that is, the "high quality" part wasn't so challenging. Because any time you capture video in a multiplayer virtual world, you inevitably encounter lag, frame rate drop, and onscreen mesh…
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Midjourney Metaverse? CEO David Holz Confirms AI Startup is Building “Real-Time Open World Holodeck”
Update, 11:35PT: Hours after running this post, I received a late-night reply from Midjourney CEO David Holz himself, in answer to my email with the subject line, "Confirm Midjourney holodeck announcement?", which cited the below quote attributed to him, then asked if that characterization was accurate. Holz's one sentence reply: "roughly correct quote yes". So…
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Here's the results of last week's survey, asking how much generative AI will change movies, music, and metaverse platforms. By and overwhelming 65%, the majority opinion is that AI's impact will be nominal, and that generative AI programs like ChatGPT and Midjourney will just become one of many other high tech tools in our creative…
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Loading… Here's a survey on how much generative AI will change important parts of human culture, inspired by a debate posted last week. In case you missed it, read the different perspectives below here: How Artificial Intelligence May Change Metaverse Platforms. How AI May Change Movies and Music. Roughly summarized, one argument suggests AI will…
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