tag > Generative
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The Problem With Beauty Equations - @sam_goree on the ‘aethetics gap’ & subjectivity in beauty.
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AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back
The Hollywood actor lost his natural voice after a surgery for throat cancer in 2015, shattering his career and permanently altering the way he communicates. That is, until late last year when Sonantic, a U.K.-based software firm that clones voices for actors and studios, helped Kilmer to speak again. A wave of start-ups are deploying artificially intelligent voice-cloning services for digital assistants, video games and movie studios. The generated voices have gotten more realistic in the age of deepfakes and sound deceptively real.
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The nature of knowledge is fractal: The closer you get, the more you'll find.
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"Mordor gets gentrified with Starbucks cafes" - Prompt for VQGAN+CLIP Image generator
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"Automation is an addiction. Stay in music school kids, play your instruments. Don’t do AI." - Quote from the new generative music album from Dadabots.
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene - by Charlie Snell
In recent months there has been a bit of an explosion in the AI generated art scene.
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Multimodal Few-Shot Learning with Frozen Language Models (tweet)
Our new paper shows how to prompt a pre-trained text language model with a combination of text AND images. Keep the language model frozen and train a vision encoder to embed images into the same space as word sequences. The LM can generalize to accepting interleaved images and text in a prompt. This enables *multimodal* GPT3 style “in-context” few-shot learning. My favourite part about our system is you can access the factual “world knowledge” in the LM with visual input Conceptual Captions has named entities “hypernymed” away, so our model has not been trained to associate named entities with images of them.
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Voice AI is scary good now. Video game actors hate it
A new ‘Witcher 3’ mod uses tech that’s ethically questionable and what one actor calls “utterly soulless.” But can anything be done about it?
#Comment: My talk "Automating Creativity Why?" (2018) and accompanying text seems more relevant than ever.
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New works from Nvidia AI team (code & colab)
"It turns out CLIP can go beyond in-domain image editing - and actually convert a generator between domains! Here are some examples"
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VQGAN+CLIP Prompt: "Moomin family portrait. realistic oil painting of Critters. unreal engine"
'Realistic oil painting of Mickey Mouse Pornography. unreal engine'
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Christopher Alexander on Generative Systems
A generating system… is a kit of parts, with rules about the way these parts may be combined. Almost every ‘system as a whole’ is generated by a ‘generating system’. If we wish to make things which function as ‘wholes’ we shall have to invent generating systems to create them. - Christopher Alexander, 1968, “Systems Generating Systems”
If you want to make a living flower, you don't build it, you grow it from the seed. - Christopher Alexander
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Back in 2016, i gave a talk at "The Conference" in Malmö, Sweden. Just found out that @PeterLubeck made this neat drawing about the talk back then.
