Category: News
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PSA for The Sun
This was an idea for a fake PSA about the sun that Tavis and I came up with over a decade ago. It was never going to get made into Sora 2 came out made it easily accomplishable in an afternoon. It is absurdist humor, it is not my intent to offend anyone. 😬
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ANCESTRA a Short Film by Eliza McNitt
ANCESTRA is a film from Primordial Soup, a storytelling venture founded by director Darren Aronofsky in collaboration with Google DeepMind, this film shows how generative tools can be used by artists to expand creativity rather than replace it. This is one of the first films that I saw that used generative imagery to enhance the…
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ADHD – Music Video by IGORRR
The visuals for this video were made by meatdept.tv and maybe I’m bias but I don’t know how anyone can look at this video and not immediately understand the strange power of the technology! 🤓
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Apple’s Long Awaited Rollout of AI
This last Monday was the first day of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commonly referred to as Dub Dub. It is Apple’s time to show off their latest in innovations and plans for the Fall. This year Apple’s big announcement is that AI is coming to their platforms but they cheekily rebranded it to…
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A mostly proud owner of the Apple Vision Pro headset
I am what they call an “early adopter” (aka: huge nerd), it is most likely my dad’s influence. He was an electrical engineer in aerospace and we had some of the first personal computers in our home, and when he gave me his hand-me-down Palm V (image below) that he got from work, I became…
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No big deal, AI is just figuring the building blocks of life
Google was one of the first companies to start investing heavily in AI, well over a decade ago, they developed and released open source frameworks like TensorFlow, spent billions developing their TPU coprocessors, and acquired a cutting edge UK based AI research lab which became Google’s Deep Mind division. Around 2014 after developing several successful…
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The Rise of the Robots
I remember having my love of robots crushed in the mid 80s, I had of course seen all the sci-fi movies and when my dad said he was bringing home an actual robot I was pretty much expecting it to be my new best friend. The Omnibot 5402 does deliver in terms of looks, maybe…
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OpenAI previews GPT-4o and she is flirtatious AF
If you haven’t see the movie Her you should, because it is good, but also because it has a fairly prescient theme of predicting this concept of falling in love with your AI assistant. I mean can you think of a lonely person who wouldn’t want an intelligent and funny Scarjoe organizing their life and…
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Music Video Made Entirely with Video Generator Sora
A few months ago Open AI announced their video generation platform called Sora. Sora is much more advanced than other “text to video” platforms and can generate realistic clips – up to a minute long! Although Sora is not yet released, some creators are getting a chance use it in their work. Here is the…
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Hello Strange New World!
Ok, I’m going to call it… It is May 20th of the year 2024, and from where I’m sitting it sure does feel like we have officially reached the beginning of the “technological singularity“. And although you may not know or care what this even means, you should consider that in the next 10 years…