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Dec 19, 2022

AI models like Stable Diffusion or GPT are 🤯 but they're building blocks: a base to create a new kind of products. OK, what products then… Best way to find out? Build them!😅 So last week I built (with

@jonathanperret

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Fugue

Dec 18, 2022

We are opening access to @fugueai beta in the next few days: create incredible fan art for any song you love. Powered by AI, inspired by music! Get your beta invite here: forms.gle/FougTAiKabUTZC

Better typography coming to Fugue, with proper handling of longer dialogs. (click for full page)

A Change of Idea. Gen with Fugue

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Roope Rainisto

@rainisto

"Big Spender" ... Now we still have the rare chance to witness Shoshin, the beginner’s mind. "In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few." I tried to fully embrace all the possibilities of what could be...

Local Maxima Much?

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basti

@Basti564

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meta is working on a new quest ui redesign (1 picture) shortly after the last one (2 picture)

Very small local theaters are already using screens to replace built, physical setups. Attended one with my kid just a few weeks ago, nearly everything in these pictures is renders on screens.

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David Mařák

@DavidMarakXR

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Future of Theatre? Only with Immersive Tech! This Immersive performance combines real actors and props and digital background, which allows them to create real-time scenes including cool VFX, rotating camera angles, and total immersion of the audience.

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That’s super cool! I just hope that the Snap AR Studio won’t be a Google Art & Culture bis… Experiments like that are nice, but short lived and not ecosystem-building IMHO.

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Oscar Falmer

@OscarFalmer

Playing Pompidou by the Snap AR Studio is still live transforming Pompidou museum in a giant musical instrument So proud of the team!

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Christian Sparks

@hippowombat

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IDK what this is, some kind of dither blur, sort of? Offsetting pixels in one of 4 directions based on a 4x4 RGBA grid.

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But indeed you cannot have motion preferences when there’s not even a standardized teleport or pointer 🙃 UI system-wide primitives are key for computers, not important for game consoles. Quest chose the game console way, and we have been paying the price since then

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It worked on successful general computing devices… who cares about game console UX? They originally didn’t even have an OS at all, so why do we think there’s anything to learn from consoles? 🤷‍♂️

All these comics have been AI generated, from just an idea. You can see the full list of the comics I generated here: fugue.benth.am/creator/6edf24

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I cannot say that I never had this crucial UX issue 😅☕️🕶

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Daniel Sisson

@danielsisson

drinking coffee while wearing a VR headset is hard, you gotta tip your head way back and it's awkward if manufacturers want enterprise users to wear a headset during work this is a fundamental design flaw

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CIX

@CixLiv

My grievances with Meta are specifically on how they operate their store, and their lack of transparency on those policies. But if Meta is blocked from acquiring VR companies, you best bet our space is not a lucrative place for investors. That will further harm all of us. 4/4

Hrafn Thorisson

@hrafntho

The library isn’t there yet because the tracking quality isn’t there yet and the platform prefers- and promotes controllers. They do not realize its importance, otherwise they would produce dedicated hardware that can improve reliability/accuracy. twitter.com/sadlyitsbradle

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@emmanuel_2m

When you're #shipping big time, just before the weekend. ➡️ Simply the world-first app that lets you train & access custom #AI models, with your own images, all from a phone. The

@Scenario_gg

team is c.r.u.s.h.i.n.g it 🚀

@AppStore

, please don't make us wait too long for this!

Scenario and Hervé Nivon

Tom Lauerman

@tomlauerman

Calibrating a custom clay printer in our Ceramics area clean room

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Benj Edwards

@benjedwards

Many worry about generative AI somehow replacing human creativity, but instead I think the tools will be used to help humans express and communicate ideas to other humans faster and more effectively, like previous communications technologies

Benj Edwards

@benjedwards

It’s still early, and the AI tech has quirks. But ultimately it should serve to express human ideas, not machine ones. If generative AI were a typewriter, we’d be in the awkward pre-QWERTY era. There will be significant refinements ahead

Benj Edwards

@benjedwards

What I think most people don’t get is that generative AI models are communication tools They will help people share ideas faster and with more detail, accelerating communication They are an innovation in a continuum with the telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, and the Internet

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

And especially

@robinsloan

's essential coda: robinsloan.com/newsletters/ro

Yes, solar panels only work for half the day; yes, the world does not presently possess enough batteries (or even perhaps enough lithium?) to support the other half. Yes, where electric cars are concerned — and not only cars, but heat pumps, induction stoves, the whole Electric Cinematic Universe — if everybody bought one, power generation would have to grow by some terrifying multiplicative factor.

Yes … and?

Cars are a fruitful analogy for infrastructural change, because they transformed the world — its urban fabric, its geopolitical balance, its cuisines (!)—so completely in a single short century.

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Did people say, at the dawn of the automobile: are you kidding me? This technology will require a ubiquitous network of refueling stations, one or two at every major intersection … even if there WAS that much gas in the world, how would you move it around at that scale? If everybody buys a car, you’ll need to build highways, HUGE ones — you’ll need to dig up cities! Madness!

Maybe they did say those things. It WAS madness; and the world went mad.

Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, but I think the really technical people are like, oh, we’re going to rip out and replace the plumbing of human life on this planet? Right, I remember that from last time. Let’s gooo!

I have no doubt whatsoever — not a scrap, not a shred — that humanity can remake the world as completely in this century as it did in the last.

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"throttling back supply during a heat wave, for instance That affects upper floors more than lower floors. 'You lose a few percent every floor," 🤔 What does it means? How are US building wired? Electric wiring seems quite problematic in the US… like building infra stagnated?

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Good Luck Switching to an Induction Stove in the City curbed.com/2023/02/switch Articles like this one always make me think of @debcha's essential essay: tinyletter.com/metafoundry/le

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@patricktresset

Fixing a robot 8700 km away with low-resolution visual feedback when no one is in the museum... not NASA level, but still. (I have a love-hate relationship with my robots) twitter.com/patricktresset

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And the original tweet 😃 What if each one of our tweets generated a cool, illustrated story? That's the sort of things I'm experimenting with

: expanding a small story into a complete creation. A lot of work to do, already quite cool!

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Alex Konrad

@alexrkonrad

my inbox for the next week

There's more AI comics on my personal page on Fugue:

Fugue pages generated by juliendorra

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This style in black and white seems quite appropriate for the feelings! (‘A journalist receives absurd pitches in his email inbox. He then become angry and destroy his computer.’) #aicomics

The Computer Rage. Gen with Fugue

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Still kept the prompt (see in previous tweets), and asked for yet another way of framing the story. New dialogs, new images, brand new style! Click to see the 5 panels! Twitter crop to just the center: fugue.benth.am/gen/y39c25v19f

Anger and Destruction. Gen with Fugue

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Still keeping the prompt, but now asked Fugue AI to rewrite the story (‘A journalist receives absurd pitches in his email inbox. He then become angry and destroy his computer.’) It gave me different dialogs. Click to see the whole 5 panels page!

An Unexpected Outburst. Gen with Fugue

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I kept the prompt (see previous tweet) and the story/dialogs, but asked the AI for all-new images, getting a different style Click to see the whole page! (5 panels)

Angry Journalist. Gen with Fugue

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For all these AI comics, I used the same prompt: ‘A journalist receives absurd pitches in his email inbox. He then becomes angry and destroy his computer.’ Click to see the whole page, Twitter crop to just the center panel:

Angry Journalist. Gen with Fugue

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More AI generated comics! I was curious if I could turn the feelings of

@alexrkonrad

into various comics using

1-minute story mode 🤔 … and it turned out great! PS: You can *remix* them all! Links to all the comics (and original tweet) in the thread 👇

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The paradox is that we invented many formal symbolic systems to make instructions specific and unequivocal: math and musical notations, blueprints, accounting ledgers, diagrams, and… programming languages! Yet everyone dreams of ‘explaining in natural language to the computer’😅

Gary Wu

@garywupx

I actually hate prompt engineering its so unreliable and sensitive. "Ignore irrelevant information". "Think step by step". "Therefore the hypothesis is:" Why can't you just "Do what I want"

Forrest Brazeal

@forrestbrazeal

I'll never forget asking a guy who maintained 40yo mainframes for an insurance co why he didn't just migrate the apps. His reply: the firm's actuarial code relies on specific bugs in the mainframe OS's floating-point handling. Run on any other system, it would produce chaos.

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@carolynz

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i've been ̶c̶o̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ asking chatgpt to code and just copy-pasting the answers

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Ryan Mather

@Flomerboy

Feb 1

We're making steady progress on poetry camera - a camera that makes poems instead of pictures

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Ryan Mather

@Flomerboy

Feb 1

We're making steady progress on poetry camera - a camera that makes poems instead of pictures 🐸🪄

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