The Man behind Stable Diffusion - An interview with Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI.
Video: Voyage through Time - a Generative AI journey using stablediffusion - by Xander Steenbrugge
tag > ML
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Satisficing - a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met.
"Decision makers can satisfice either by finding optimum solutions for a simplified world, or by finding satisfactory solutions for a more realistic world. Neither approach, in general, dominates the other, and both have continued to co-exist in the world of management science" - Herbert A. Simon
Related: Herbert Simon's satisficing life
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Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network
#Comment: In infinity the "world" is every possible thing at the same time, including nothing.
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Kenneth O. Stanley - Novel Opportunities in Open-Endedness @ UCL DARK
As interest in the field of open-endedness expands, ideas like continual discovery and increasingly complexity have gained significant attention. The aim of this talk is to bring attention to two lesser-known facets of open-endedness that nevertheless merit significantly more attention. First, evidence so far suggests that representations achieved through open-ended processes seem radically different from representations discovered through optimization, even if they solve the same problem. The implications of this observation are unknown but potentially significant. Second, while the agents themselves in an open-ended system are of course critical, in processes analogous to civilization (as opposed to evolution), the artifacts those agents put into and leave in the environment (e.g. houses and cars for humans) are also critical to the trajectory of the system, yet little studied or understood. New advances, such as Evolution through Large Models, make studying this issue more feasible. The hope is that this talk will inspire further investigation into both considerations.
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Deep Neural Networks for Form-Finding of Tensegrity Structures
This paper proposes a new form-finding method based on state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. One of the statical paradigms, a force density method, is substituted for trained deep neural networks to obtain necessary information of tensegrities. It is based on the differential evolution algorithm, where the eigenvalue decomposition process of the force density matrix and the process of the equilibrium matrix are not needed to find the feasible sets of nodal coordinates.
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Wireheading?
Practitioners in the A.I, machine learning, generative modeling/art, human augmentation and related domains should be very clear about this: Significant parts of these communities - implicitly or explicitly - are racing towards implementing and perfecting Wireheading and Mind-control, in its many expressions. Let's stop to beat about the bush and openly discuss the socio-spiritual-technical design decisions and implications of such systems, which in the shadows have advanced far further than most choose to believe. Most importantly, let's meditate so we can choose the path forward in a conscious and relaxed way.
#ML #Generative #Augmentation #Military #SE #RTM #BCI #RadioBio
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Here be dragons
The current excitement around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is mostly missing the bigger picture: There is a ghost in the machine and a machine inside the ghost. This century won't be predominately defined by AGI, Robotics or Biotech - but by breakthroughs in inter-species comms and the democratization (and rebranding) of energy work, practical magic & engineered paranormal activity.
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Why is Dall-E a scam? - by David Oreilly
Besides the scam aspect, the censorship is beyond ridicules
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Dalle2 stream of consciousness animation - Every image, except for the first frame, is an AI generated variant of the previous frame.
The Last Supper 5x wider using Dalle 2.
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Implicit drivers of most AI/Robotics future visions told by tech leaders are such immature desires:
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"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." - Bernard Avishai
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Art generated by Dale2 - Prompt: 'peasant at a market haggling for some bread with a merchant, several armed guards patrol the surrounding stalls, realistic perspective painting by Alexandre Cabanel (circa 33 BC)'
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Speak Like a Dog: Human to Non-human creature Voice Conversion
This paper proposes a new voice conversion (VC) task from human speech to dog-like speech while preserving linguistic information as an example of human to non-human creature voice conversion (H2NH-VC) tasks.
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While OpenAI's Dale 2 produces some amazing images, its politics are an authoritarian shit-show
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Generative Media Industry Crash
The value of pixels and any other media artifact that can be computationally generated (basically all of them) is rapidly falling to close to zero marginal cost. The primary results will be: 1) More people will engage in creative expression - but dramatically less than the developer of creativity augmentation systems like to believe. 2) Tens of millions of people in creative industries will be out of a job permanently and forced to learn alternative skills. Get ready, the time is short. (I wrote these Related, Related, Related pieces on the topic many years ago, that are still somewhat relevant)
