NEW VIDEO: The Surreal Dreams of AI-Generated Art
Added 2021-10-16 14:53:42 +0000 UTCIt's here, buds! My look at the unique visual language of art made with AI, what makes it so fascinating, and the market forces threatening to take it all away.
This is an early access version, but I think it's done. If you notice anything off, any glitches or mistakes, please let me know!
Public premiere will be tomorrow at 3PM :)
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If y'all want to go down the rabbit hole of AI safety, I highly recommend this article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06520.pdf You can skip the math parts if it's not your jam, but it shows concretely some of the sorts of challenges that pop up and it's pretty accessible for an A.I. paper. The thing with A.I. is that they are basically ways to approximate a function. There are lots of small "circuits" in our brains that are really good at transforming some intput into some output that get stacked together and somehow make up consciousness. A.I. is like making a bunch of those little circuits. They can give us a lot of insight into how we learn simple, unconscious things... like bias!
Gwen Lofman
2021-12-01 18:31:57 +0000 UTCHey, thanks for your POV on this! I definitely have a lot to learn on the topic. I'll check out those links.
Lily Alexandre
2021-11-18 16:46:47 +0000 UTCGreat video! Got me to subscribe on here :) My take is that 'AI generated artworks' is a bit like saying "camera generated photographs" - AI is a tool, like a camera, and at the end of the day the art is still created by a human (only if by curation or prompting). Relatedly, your artist->programmer->photo compiler->photographers example is a little overgeneralizing, some AI artists are doing a few or all of the above themselves (see Helena Sarin - https://thegradient.pub/playing-a-game-of-ganstruction/). AI art is also deeply tied to generative/computational art, which is often overlooked - you may find this interesting https://thegradient.pub/the-past-present-and-future-of-ai-art/ . Anyway as an AI researcher I could share a lot more thoughts (eg about research orgs - they are creating tools, not art, VQGAN-CLIP being different from GANs), but all that aside again a great video, glad you covered this cool subject!
Andrey Kurenkov
2021-11-17 19:53:04 +0000 UTCThe Prince idea is terrifying. The economic incentives for AI necromancy are in place, and people are excited about it.
Henry Rachootin
2021-10-23 17:08:56 +0000 UTCIt’s a scary thought for sure! I feel like even 10 years ago the “are AI sentient?” question was totally abstract. And now we’ve actually gotta deal with it! It gives me a stomachache! I do worry that since AI are guided by the rich, protecting AI’s agency/humanity might just mean protecting the interests of the wealthy. To get very tinfoil-hatty about it, lol
Lily Alexandre
2021-10-20 02:53:14 +0000 UTCLove this approach of taking seriously how we think about AI art and really AI production in general. It's hard for me to not see it as rapidly encroaching ubiquity, much quicker than we expect. The thing that really spooks me as that we often don't actually know what AIs are "thinking" or how they really process things. We have a unique ability to audit the stages of their "thinking" but even the programmers can't say exactly why it makes its decisions. And that's the point. Unlike coding where every aspect needs to be micromanaged by a specific command, you can let the program figure it out autonomously. It's like we've recreated the human brain and it's equally inscrutable, but private industry can and does exert power over it and over us in turn. Not to get too tinfoil-hatty about it
Sasha Karbachinskiy
2021-10-19 15:17:37 +0000 UTCOh, totally! I didn’t make the connection but I can see it.
Lily Alexandre
2021-10-18 20:42:55 +0000 UTCI don't know if it's entirely related but this got me thinking a lot about the way the internet uses "liminal space" to describe sort of anything from a long hallway to a gas station rest stop. You mentioned the uncanny valley and I think that's similar, at least in the way that concept and liminality are talked about online. And a lot of these AI works have similar sort of almost-familiar, creepily meta-human feels to them that reminds me of being in a physically liminal space, everything is almost but not quite.
Winona Honey
2021-10-18 00:31:29 +0000 UTC
