Pawan Rochwani
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Pawan Rochwani
Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their own “splinternets,” reject that assumption. Is the internet still the internet if it is not globally connected? Reconciling disparate answers is the current task of governance and standardization... See more
Spatial Computing - Lai Yi Ohlsen - How Tall is the Internet?
Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their own “splinternets,” reject that assumption. Is the internet still the internet if it is not globally connected?
Before the internet demanded our attention 24/7, television, radio, and lifestyle magazines had a very specific grip on the zeitgeist, combing youth culture to determine the next craze. Now, gauging cool is a far more democratic endeavor, and the escalating speed of digital culture means that fads can come and go before they even peak. Mediated... See more
Jason Parham • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
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My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter with five of us on the scooter. I was in my mother’s lap, Neha on the in-between of two seats and Neetika standing at the front. I was always scared that I would slip from my mother’s lap because I was
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Bear case: AI will hurt artists’ livelihood and plagiarism will be rampant.
Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
Bull case: AI will lower the barrier to entry for artists to create digital art.
Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
Will AI art help or hurt artists?
Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
- Billions of images are scraped from the internet. These images, along with their text descriptions, are saved in a database. - The AI model uses this database to train through reverse diffusion. - Diffusion adds noise to an image (from the dog to random pixels). - Reverse diffusion turns noise back into an image.