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Indeed, every single frame in a big-budget Hollywood action film today has been built up with so many layers of additional details that it should be thought of as a moving painting rather than as a moving photograph.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The complexity of the human brain dwarfs that of anything else in the known universe, but it’s almost belied by the sheer elegance of its construction.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
when we look beyond transient technological limitations, we see that image generators merely provide the interface – the ‘connecting cable’ – between the user and the true virtual-reality generator, which is the computer. For it is entirely within the computer that the specified environment is simulated.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Some may worry about whether powerful new neural-network models for generating text and images will replace workers and artists. But this can be true only if beauty and creativity are measurable by one-dimensional metrics, if art and human endeavors are static forms whose rules and objectives do not change, if we reject the possibility of meaning a... See more
Nameless Feeling
ChatGPT is made from 100 million of these [The Perceptron]
youtube.comSo living processes and virtual-reality renderings are, superficial differences aside, the same sort of process. Both involve the physical embodying of general theories about an environment. In both cases these theories are used to realize that environment and to control, interactively, not just its instantaneous appearance but also its detailed re
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she doesn’t identify as firmly anti-AI and can’t say artificial intelligence will never make its way into her artwork. AI-generated images as they currently stand, however, don’t impress her.
“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”
“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”
