I’ve seen plenty of robot arms that can paint, but they have a certain charm even when they’re silly. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/fridas-robot-arm-attempts-to-bring-dall-e-style-ai-art-to-real-world-canvases/ One could make a very reasonable argument that FRIDA (Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts) is as much a thought experiment as it is a research project. Certainly it butts up against similar questions […]

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/why-vrar-gets-farther-away-as-it-comes-into-focus Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR), hybrid mixed reality (MR)—began more than a decade ago. Magic Leap was founded in 2010, the same year Microsoft started development on its HoloLens platform, which released its first model in 2016, with the second coming in 2019. […]

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https://research.runwayml.com/gen1 Gen-1 Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/ (…) We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard. And today, we’re taking another step forward by opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks. Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s […]

*It shows the principles. https://madebyoll.in/posts/dino_diffusion/ Criteria: plausibility, proportionality, and originality Ideally, we want an image generator to exhibit: Plausibility: individual generated images should be indistinguishable from “real” images (no weird artifacts or glitches). Proportionality: a bunch of randomly-generated images should be indistinguishable from a bunch of randomly-selected real images (no traits should be noticeably over- […]

Various glues, various tapes, velcro, safety pins, baling wire, razors, string, paracord, zip-ties of various sizes, a small saw, touch-up paint, pencils, a sketchbook…

*The nineteenth-century futurist (and architectual historian) breezes through town on his way to gawk at Naples and Venice, among other “old Italian cities.” The year is 1878.