AI
experiments with AI
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Fish & Chips
Digging back into my archives, I found this scrap of an idea from a file from 1994. This was an idea that developed from a request by a friend of mine who was working on a short film. The film was a spy thriller to take place in the offices of a microchip company. His…
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Data Centers in the Community
As I have been playing with AI to generate imagery, I’ve been listening to all the reporting online about the flood of data centers being planned and built all over the US and the world. There has been talk of data centers being built in far off places as well as in built up places.…
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Puppet Matte
Finally, the use case I always hoped to use AI for has come to fruition – making Matte (myself) too whatever I command. (add in evil laugh). Playing around with VEED, I managed to take a photo I uploaded of some handsome man and made them do all sorts of things: Have the man in…
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Boo Yay, Baby!
My daughter had an assignment for English to identify a word that was foreign to her that she would define and present to the class. She asked me how to pronounce “Ebullient” and I wasn’t entirely sure. So, we looked it up and were surprised it was e-bull-yent. Immediately the phrase “Boo yay, baby!” came…
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Static Goodbye
This experiment has involved multiple tools and quite a few days to come together. I’m not sure if it hit all the marks I was hoping for, but as a first go, perhaps it’s exactly what one can hope for. If it was any easier, then it would really devalue the creativity and experience that…
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Stick Figure Theatre
Another little note in an old notebook about recreating scenes from major motion pictures using stick figures. Low fidelity seemed to be a bit of a problem for Gemini. I asked it to: Create a square image from your favorite movie scene but make it stick figures using black ink on a white screen. Not…
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Broke Boarding
I have never skateboarded in my life. So, imagine my surprise finding the following in an old notebook: Broke Boarding – skating on a half-broken board – whatever it takes to get skateboarding. I’m sure it was more the alliteration which lodged that idea into my head and forced my hand to capture it on…
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Chocolate Suds
This came from a small scribble in a notebook from 2010-04-18. It reads: Laundromat + Ice Cream + Espresso + Sausage + Net Cafe I’m not sure exactly what I had in mind there. Not sure how “sausage” would fit in. But on a lark, I asked Gemini to: Make a logo for a laundromat…
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Books on Tape
Digging through some old collections of ideas I’ve had over the years, I found: Books on tape (books written on actual tape) Like most ideas I feature here on this site, I’m sure countless other people have had each of these ideas. Some probably went further with those ideas than I have. But should that…
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AI, Parody, and Acceptability
Or a discussion of AI guardrails. Listening to yet another news piece on Jeffrey Epstein, I realized that part of my brain has been filled up – against my will – by someone I wish was not in there. I didn’t have a say in the matter. And I probably have no legal right to…