Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

no I get it -- I just briefly thought you wanted to try out the neo-phrenology classifier

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-report-brain-computation

and yes to eephus but the upside is that once you start playing with them that means EVERYONE'S playing with them and they tend to iterate quickly.

Lately every time I read a blog post or essay like this: https://marksaroufim.substack.com/p/machine-learning-the-great-stagnation

that completely loses track of its thesis--if it even has one--and just jumps around from topic to topic ranting a bit about each one, I wonder if it's going to be followed up in a couple of weeks with another "Ha! That last blog post was entirely written by GPT-3 and you fools couldn't even tell!!!"

i thought this was really interesting and well executed.

Here's a sacrilege - "Ballet Mécanique" by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy edited to the sound of "The Promo that Got Away (Insert Story Here)" by ghosts4hire

As usual with AI results there are parts where I want to manually polish things, but I here's the raw output. pic.twitter.com/2Nyvr55sTX

— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) January 24, 2021

er, sorry: explanation earlier in thread

For an upcoming collaboration I created an algorithm that edits music videos autonomously by selecting the best matching scenes and cuts for a given song. Here's a test with some found glitch material.

Song: Time Traveler (eroded by time mix) by ghosts4hire
CC BY-NC 3.0 pic.twitter.com/LqsKSoHuvg

— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) January 24, 2021

brilliant

This seems like an article Sarah Conner would read three months before Skynet took over:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/01/27/drone-swarms-are-getting-too-fast-for-humans-too-fight-us-general-warns/

that’s p fucked up

thisisfinedog.jpeg

sarah connor needs to move to zion in the matrix - makes sense to hole-up deep underground and let the machines fight on the surface

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/

uh that is very close to nsfw

And yet

wow, didn't know this existed and was a free download.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He6MCalvDf4

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136248/ar-pianist-massive-technologies-virtual-musicians-pianos

Lmao

The latest generation of adversarial image attacks is, uh, somewhat simpler to carry out https://t.co/CBnA53lEcy pic.twitter.com/h4e0bShq9i

— Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) March 4, 2021

Good mugshot too

A Pennsylvania woman created "deepfake" videos of her daughter's cheerleading rivals, depicting them naked drinking and smoking

And then she sent them to her daughter's coaches to try and get them kicked off the squadhttps://t.co/WG49eJtODj

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 13, 2021

"An empty room"
Looking at daylight, reflections and shadows in GAN rooms
Oddly specific in all vagueness pic.twitter.com/WWqOGg0XnK

— Erik Swahn (@erikswahn) March 8, 2021

Very rad

Automatic "photoshopping" to order based on plain text commands. For example, give it a photo and tell it "mohawk", and it puts a mohawk on the person in the photo. Just to be clear, this is very different from eg an instagram "mohawk" filter would be, because afaik it isn't pre-programmed to do this stuff. Like, I think you could give it a novel prompt like "fish hat on head" or something and it would try to make that image for you.

https://github.com/orpatashnik/StyleCLIP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.17249

Pretty cool

update from a friend in Indianapolis:

"There’s a pilot program in Indy to test driverless cars. The manager said the goal is for people to use them to and from IUPUI, and take them to the hospital, and so forth. They appear to have test drivers who do not control the steering. How do I know? Today, one somehow ended up straddling two lanes and managed to rear end me and the car to my right."

Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team to experiment with new behaviors. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. https://t.co/xZRNVnhrkc pic.twitter.com/E0ssh45ZCi

— Boston Dynamics (@BostonDynamics) August 17, 2021

Pretty amazing.

Boston Dynamics Atlas parkour failures. pic.twitter.com/BaY4Sx9R74

— MachinePix (@MachinePix) August 17, 2021

can't wait to be murdered by these amazing robots

This is all very impressive, but I wouldn't count it as artificial intelligence since it all based on a carefully scripted program as opposed to the robots figuring out how to navigate and jump around all on their own.

oh, my bad! i always thought the boston dynamics robots were AI-trained at some level, but i guess not?

the mechanical component alone is definitely terror inducing

https://buttondown.email/urbababble/archive/theyre-nearly-there-except-for-all-the-hard-stuff/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/18/motorist-fined-number-plate-t-shirt

lol. great way to prank yer mates car.

PSA for anyone who might be dealing with robot gun dogs, from a farm robot specialist who wasn't really looking at robot wrangling from the public safety standpoint but here we are. https://t.co/PhQSmEnzOn

— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) October 17, 2021

https://delphi.allenai.org/

oops and https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/

Bit obsessed with the art generator at https://app.wombo.art
https://i.imgur.com/64nlkVF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GNfnlBl.jpg

Had a go at recreating/inventing some old masters:

https://i.imgur.com/vjtnxUc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BLLQeot.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FKXUyw2.jpg

Oh, that's great stuff.

I would totally get this edition of Moby-Dick
https://i.imgur.com/95mCQMc.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/a/kz90wF0.jpeg

https://i.ibb.co/ggjRP07/Screenshot-20211207-112450-org-mozilla-fenix.jpg

fyi you can get an ilx postable link when you upload from the dots in the top right -> get share links -> bbcode (forums)

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/48519cb2-b130-4cdf-8243-a8bc05c53346/blank_tradingcard.jpg

xpost instructions are for imgur, i should have said.

"Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness" + dark fantasy = Endless array of great death metal covers. They tend to look like old Incantation albums.

hokusai's follow up to 'the great wave' - 'miserable pissy rain' (this was with the ukiyo-e filter)

https://i.imgur.com/9NQ5LOu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I6AI5PP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZcInSAE.jpg

Ha, I was whiling away some time inputting ilx thread titles on this the other day!

https://i.imgur.com/mJuYJhj.jpg