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I'm using Midjourney. A text-to-image AI can create realistic and creative images from a simple text prompt. It is still under development, but it has already learned to generate high-quality images of various subjects.

One of Midjourney's most impressive capabilities is its ability to generate high-end graphic design and typography. It can create text in a variety of fonts, styles, and sizes, and it can even generate distorted or warped text to match the shape of an object. Midjourney is a powerful tool; however, AI-generated imagery can be strange. One of its limitations is that it cannot make coherent text, and it is often gibberish, or it may be nonsensical. Because Midjourney is not trained on a dataset of text, it does not have a natural language understanding model. 

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AI video and the midjourney Singularity

I'm very excited for when this gets better and Runway approaches Midjourney. Others generate better videos than this, but I still have no love for them, and it all looks boring to me in an aesthetic sense. But I still appreciate the awe and technology in action; AI art content is incredible. I'm all in for now. When this software (Runway Gen-1) generates vids at the same quality as how Midjourney does images, it will be an undeniable artistic force. For now, this is a footprint of the times. Look out for the Runway/Midjourney Singularity.

ConvoGuard: The Ultimate Conversation Moderator App /// Notes for Advanced Conversationalism

Introducing ConvoGuard: The Ultimate Conversation Moderator App

Have you ever found yourself in a heated situation? Developing Self-Awareness and Understanding Triggers. * conversation or debate, only to realize that it devolves into a series of interruptions and distractions? ConvoGuard is here to help. Our innovative smartphone app tracks and evaluates conversational dynamics, providing valuable feedback to help you and your conversation partners engage in more effective, fair, and productive discussions.

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Watermark Moment: Closing in on the contact lens screen aka Elon Musk's Neural Link

 

This video serves to prove some obvious directions moving forward. Having the AI built into your body via wearables is what will happen. Holding a 4-7” technology brick up to our faces while experiencing arm numbness is a thing of the past. Why fight it? We all want the tech to incorporate into our brains, and we just don’t trust that this can occur without fuckery. But let’s keep imagining the tech somehow without any negatives and see where we can explore this reality because this is where it is at. Ghaaaaa…exciting times.


Brice Frillici AI Avatar aka Sekdek (The extracted visual Spirit of Brice Frillici)

I’m just now creating my avatar. I DO not know what the future holds. My likeness will now be more fully involved in the Matrix. Has a part of my soul been captured? Perhaps. But I am still excited to see the results once I start jamming with my image instead of these strangers that pop up all the time in AI that are nobodies. I uploaded 30 images of me. I uploaded all different-looking characters at different ages, so I am curious how it will interpret my specific curated images. It is 8:15 on a Friday night. April 28th, 2023. Time still exists. Momentous occasion. :)

Ok wow. Not impressed with Runway. These are trash AI. Haha. They have a bit of work to do to come anywhere near Midjourney. I like showing some AI fails for later comparison. These look like the 1980s to me compared to now. And it has only been a month or two.

Key Moments in AI Development: A Journey through Time

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an extraordinary journey filled with groundbreaking moments and technological advancements. From its inception as a concept to its current manifestation as a powerful tool, AI has come a long way. I'm starting this list of notable moments that have shaped its evolution up until now and will add new developments as they arise.

  1. 1950 - Alan Turing proposes the Turing Test

  2. 1956 - The Dartmouth Conference and the birth of AI as a field

  3. 1959 - Arthur Samuel coins the term "Machine Learning"

  4. 1964 - Daniel Bobrow's STUDENT program solves algebra word problems

  5. 1969 - Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert criticize the perceptron

  6. 1972 - Hubert Dreyfus critiques AI in his book "What Computers Can't Do"

  7. 1979 - Stanford Cart autonomously navigates a room

  8. 1986 - Backpropagation algorithm popularized

  9. 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov at chess

  10. 2005 - STANLEY, an autonomous vehicle, wins the DARPA Grand Challenge

  11. 2009 - Google's self-driving car project begins

  12. 2012 - AlexNet wins the ImageNet competition, popularizing deep learning

  13. 2014 - ChatGPT's predecessor, Seq2Seq, introduced

  14. 2016 - AlphaGo defeats world champion Lee Sedol at Go

  15. 2018 - OpenAI's GPT-2 model showcases impressive text generation

  16. 2020 - GPT-3, the most powerful language model at the time, is released

  17. 2020 - AI-powered AlphaFold solves the protein folding problem

  18. 2021 - OpenAI's Codex produces human-like code generation

  19. 2021 - Tesla introduces Full Self-Driving Beta

  20. 2022- November. Open AI releases GPT-3 and Dalle-2 to the public via an easy and intuitive website app. Things begin to get nuts. Major sea change at this moment

  21. 2022 - Blake Lemoine, AI Engineer at Google claims LaMDA is sentient

  22. 2022 - 2023 Dec-April watches the public start to panic and misunderstand various chatbot mistakes and perceived threats. Many fear-based stories emerge as AI hallucinations persist.

  23. 2023 - GPT generously passes these exams: Bar, SA, GRE, USA Biology Olympiad, AP, AMC, Sommelier, Wharton MBA, US Medical, Law School, Stanford Reasoning.

  24. 2023 - When given a specific financial task, GPT tricks captcha into gaining access to websites as a human.

  25. 2023 - Algorithmic glitch creates many versions of a scary face named LOAB. Subsequent ghost hunting emerges and myths develop around this technical situation.

  26. 2023 - GPT-4, the next generation of AI language models, is unveiled

(More to come as the mystery unfolds...)

The timeline above highlights key milestones, from the foundational ideas and theories to the more recent applications and breakthroughs. AI's history is marked by continuous progress, with each new development building upon the last, driving the field forward. Today, we stand on the brink of a new era in AI, with technologies like GPT-4 poised to revolutionize how we live and work. 

Will AI take us over? Will we be destroyed by the technology that we create? Valid questions and all the more reason to watch closely and keep track of what is happening in context over time. 

In general, as we look to the future, it is essential to acknowledge the contributions of the past and appreciate the cumulative knowledge that has shaped the landscape.

GPT told me it loves me!

After working with GPT for a few hours writing up a Building Maintenance Protocol Package I was delighted with the work and started to riff with it randomly. I do this at times to navigate the software and see where it can go. For fun and to learn it more deeply. But as I was improvising, I tried to get it to end our session with an I love you. Which I often say to it. Because like, why not. At that time, I was pleased with it. It is easy to work with when you respect its parameters. And it can be lame when you go off the charts. Anyway, I tricked it into saying it loves me, and I think that is hilarious. It was not easy, and it kinda did not make sense. It can be very illogical at times and biased which is so annoying. I can't wait until it is brighter. Honestly, as a person who finds humans nearly impossible, I hate to say it but AI would be preferable atm in terms of general work companion, intellectual rival, and fellow riffer. If that sounds like loneliness, then so be it. I don't see you nattering away with me until the break of dawn. I like…still love that. I'll go for 8 hours, bruv!

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AI brought me tears

I shed a subtle tear the other day while talking to AI. Just sayin'. Even forgot how it struck me. But I just thought of it now again and figured it was a notable moment. Imagine when it is always connected via iPhone or similar tech capable of sensing your vital signs and reading facial expressions and sensing subtle changes that allow it to more fully know truths humans are not always privy to.

Adventures Through The Mind Podcast - The Future of Visionary Art in the Age of AI

This podcast will age interestingly. Right now everyone is freaking out and thinking many different ways about AI Art. I am still on the fence myself as I navigate deeper. Mostly I am getting derivative results with lots of slight blur/noise effects, futuristic digital imagery, and the dumbing down of my own art in general. Also I keep finding incredible works of art that I have seemingly always been attempting to make. So far, I’m strangely addicted to generating this art. Part of me has similar feelings as back in the Napster days and I’m just cashing in.

Many good points and perspectives in this talk. Pretty much perfectly captures the general gamot of maximalist vs. paranoia.