dcturner.bsky.social
Award-winning multimedia artist with 15+ yrs exp in:
> game / software development
> 2D animation (traditional and motion graphics)
> illustration
> music composition + guitar
> sound design
www.dcturner.co.uk
NO AI
NO CRYPTO
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Ice level boss
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You're right, I was leaning towards image generators.
Ultimately though, I don't think a big stack of perceptrons acts with any more intelligent purpose than diffusion.
But yes, point taken.
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I mean it's literally a repurposed denoising algorithm.
Start with noise, tell it to find a picture of X.
cvpr2022-tutorial-diffusion-models.github.io
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>> Pseudo << information system.
It's a dangerously disruptive, unregulated platform.
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Its a denoising algorithm.
I can’t believe anyone thinks it’s a good idea for the general public to have access to this kind of system.
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Get 'em!
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Oh yeah - That episode on the history of the Haunted Mansion ride is incredible.
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It's an ugly book, but it contains some wonderful insights about the creative process.
The author is an ex-Disney Imagineer, so there are some fun stories about the development of multiplayer theme park rides etc.
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It might seem like a non-sequitur - but I find this book to be extremely helpful when designing >anything< ...
Jesse Schell: The Art Of Game Design
schellgames.com/art-of-game-...
Presented as a set of objective 'lenses' through which to view your project. Helps with the weeding process!
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Excellent work, Shmackos dispatched, as agreed.
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Funny as it is to watch Disney spend $2500 to define How To Train Your Dragon's "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III," you do this when you are planning to rip a company in two for copyright infringement. In this case, Midjourney is being sued by two of the most powerful IP holders in history. Not good!
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Starring Matt Smith
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I enjoyed IT FOLLOWS for the same reason.
Where’s Wally, threat edition.
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I was struck by the same realisation when reading Godel Escher Bach - the Cargo-Cult approach of naming basic computing architecture after complex psychological principles.
Classes, instances, prototypes - we are evoking thought patterns in the hope that machines will take the ball and run with it.
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I like to think of genAI (e.g. Midjourney) not as a simulated mind with reasoning faculties - but rather as a crude emulation of the visual cortex.
It can recognise patterns and conjure basic symbols, but it lacks the wider awareness necessary to combine these symbols in any meaningful way.
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I was struck by the same realisation when reading Godel Escher Bach - the Cargo-Cult approach of naming basic computing architecture after complex psychological principles.
Classes, instances, prototypes - we are evoking thought patterns in the hope that machines will take the ball and run with it.
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Lovely.
I'm playing in the same ballpark at the moment; designing bullet patterns for a retro shooter.
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Storyboarders are expendable, but (male) screenwriters are still necessary.
Why involve any humans at all?
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The ol'
Fight n' Shop
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awww yeah - this puzzle was satisfying
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I'd like to live in a cave / bunker until this all blows over.
Wake me up when we hit the Post-AI era / Butlerian Jihad.