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John Cage speaking of his experience in an anechoic chamber (a room that absorbs all sound)
“In that silent room, I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward I asked the engineer in charge why, if the room was so silent, I had heard two sounds… He said, ‘The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation.’”
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The Art Singularity is near...
A dirty secret of "AI Art" is that for every generated image a significant amount of energy was used, as modern GPU's (like Nvidia's A100, etc.) are electricity hungry. If we imagine a relationship between "Electrical energy used (on average) to create an art piece" and the "Value (cultural, entertainment, etc.) of an art piece", the trend over the past 100 years is wild...
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Virtual Insanity
The wonderful irony of people using electricity intense GPU's to generate 'fake' images of autumn trees on their screens - instead of just going for a walk in the forest and enjoying the real trees.
The result of pointing this out to this "artist"?
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Product Requests
WANT: A system for Active Listening. The opportunity & challenges are significant.
WANT: A system for active noise cancellation in open spaces. Been researching this for some time and its a wicked challenging problem, but in theory tractable.
#ML #Technology #Design #Augmentation #Music #Science #Culture
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On Meditation and Open-endedness
"That is why I think meditation and relaxation research is in effect open-endedness research: because a deeply open-ended process is inevitable when humans introspect in the real world, understanding what it means to constrain processes that are fundamentally unconstrainable."
Was my comment in reaction to:
And finally, Niti's comment in reaction to mine:
As you have said before, decentering the seat of consciousness from the brain to flow through to the rest of body is a disruptive process, and I highly recommend its practice.
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Generative Storytelling Media
Predication: If you put a ML "story+image generator" into a tight feedback loop with humans that co-steer it in real-time (by speaking & sketching) - you get a new entertainment genre, distantly related to RPG's. This new form of storytelling will be very popular in a few years.
ML Generated short story and images, by @GanWeaving:
'The man and the dog are sitting in the front room watching the washing machine spin round and round. Every now and then, the dog barks at the machine as if it's doing something wrong. The man just laughs and shakes his head.'
