https://www.seditionart.com/magazine/dead-machines-by-francesca-fini Could you please tell us about the concept and making of the new launch Dead Machines? This project is centered around a strong narrative. The four videos in this small collection function as the chapters of a dystopian tale that imagines a time when machines are so advanced that they can even die. Unlike […]

*The best part of this summary video is when she casually confesses that she once lived in the back of a van for five years. *It’s an admirable punk DIY structure, especially with its matte-black and chrome color scheme. Personally, I’d worry about sleeping in a place so heavily composed of plywood, adhesive and screws, […]

SHARE PROJECT is excited to announce the release of the Call for Art for the Share Prize XV, the prestigious award dedicated to contemporary art that explores the intersection wtth technology and science. This year’s theme is: ELABORATOR The Heart of the Artificial Intelligence under the Artistic Direction of Bruce Sterling and the Curator Jasmina […]

*This is interesting; I “own” some Feral File NFTs, but I have no “web3 wallet.” It’s time to move your Feral File NFTs and crypto to your web3 wallet Over the last year, we have undergone a massive overhaul of Feral File in order to better support web3 technologies. While we added support for web3 […]

*They’re this week’s wonders in generator-land. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/hype-grows-over-autonomous-ai-agents-that-loop-gpt-4-outputs/?utm_brand=arstechnica Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API last month to beta testers, a loose group of developers have been experimenting with making agent-like (“agentic”) implementations of the AI model that attempt to carry out multistep tasks with as little human intervention as possible. These homebrew scripts can loop, […]

Five families earned their living from this Spanish creek and its industrial structure of stone and oak. Look at the proportions of it, and the way that it’s hand-hewn from huge forest timbers. It even has an impressively elderly electrical generator.

*Artificial intelligence and virtual reality, together at last.

*People seem unnecessarily confused about who is doing what to whom and for what reason, but that situation is not surprising in Italy. https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9874751 https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9874751#english

https://venturebeat.com/ai/databricks-releases-dolly-2-0-the-first-open-instruction-following-llm-for-commercial-use/ https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm Two weeks ago, we released Dolly, a large language model (LLM) trained for less than $30 to exhibit ChatGPT-like human interactivity (aka instruction-following). Today, we’re releasing Dolly 2.0, the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use. Dolly 2.0 is a 12B parameter language […]

*Oh dear.