Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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

https://app.wombo.art/card/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d

That "pencil drawing of Paul Weller" one is majestic.

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d/blank_tradingcard.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAWGXQXQ6WCOB7PP5J&Signature=CkASKAO%2BtW6SVvKk%2F%2F0AbnRfa9U%3D&Expires=1638896728

^SPIT IN MY MOUTH --Cardi B, zoomers

'On a White Couch'
https://i.imgur.com/aRHnv0d.jpg

Here are some classic Jim'll Paint It suggestions rendered in Wombo pic.twitter.com/ClwYp7UJc8

— Jim (@Jimllpaintit) December 7, 2021

http://app.wombo.art/card/f7cd3bc4-c52b-4d39-b1ab-895831c76d84

I'd say this Wombo thingie merits its own thread, similarly to Transformer, where we can all display our best/worst results. Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations.

https://app.wombo.art/card/b50ab818-1549-41e6-8c98-c1289e0bad07

I was hoping that would post as a picture, but apparently I don't know how to do that.

That cthulhu thing is amazing.

Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations dead links.

https://www.instructables.com/The-AI-Label-Maker/

(in short, a pi-powered box that examines and object and prints out a label for it. a plate of biscuits gets labelled 'cell phone', a polka dot mug gets 'the window is open'...)

Image generation leveled up again, already.

GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
abs: https://t.co/G74t97S1jH

Samples from a 3.5B parameter text-conditional diffusion model using classifier free guidance are favored by human evaluators to those from DALL-E pic.twitter.com/gjSYl4cnAd

— AK (@ak92501) December 21, 2021

That looks hard-to-believe good

jesus christ

still has some way to go i'd say

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/y1RspNRUzy

— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) February 6, 2022

makes you think

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088140809/fake-linkedin-profiles

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there

i think i might be a blot

AI Andy to thread!

so dan i. mentioned dall-e already in this thread, but anyway, it's back...with a vengeance and called dall-e 2

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

the short of it is it's basically going to take over as a photoshop plugin and graphic/web design source. it's very good at generating "art", however you define it

dall-e 2 illustrations of my friends' twitter bios

— Nick (@nickcammarata) April 7, 2022

looks just good enough to resemble the great bulk of commercial art, while having no spark of personality. iow, a perfect photoshop plug-in.

it does make a lot of sense for commercial art, for two reasons: 1) if you can either fool the average person/consumer most of the time, or if they don't really care about the art in the first place, then 2) the company will decide to generate free commercial art rather than deal with art burnouts and paying them

but i don't know, i watched Her about 3 too many times

xp Aimless!