The debate about whether internet-fitted AIs can be creative always seemed besides the point to me. Making art is hard. It’s unfortunate that art selects so strongly for skill. Can we decorrelate the two? It seems so. Cheap interpolative* creativity used by 8 billion non-artists surely surfaces new views of the world. For these reasons and since I have very little skill I’ve been very excited about the various AI-driven art forms popping up. A couple of months ago I started playing with r...| Home on Matthieu Le Cauchois
When I started out in engineering some years ago and coming from a french schooling system, I had this attitude of taking a lot of established things for granted. I think it’s pretty common for europeans to have an epiphany, especially after visiting SF, when realizing that agency is a thing and that the stuff we use doesn’t just spawn out of thin air. In that same vein I recently felt like I was overly reliant on clean abstractions for my ML work. In a way it’s pretty incredible to be ...| Home on Matthieu Le Cauchois
Reality distortion is fun because it’s both familiar and surprising. Some friends and I combined Google Street View and Stable Diffusion and found it pretty good at inducing such prediction errors. For details on the thinking behind and methods for generating 360° scenes, check out my friend’s essay. Depending on whether we managed to sponsor the compute you can find the app running at panoramai.xyz. The code is here. Here are some examples: Psychedelic Lausanne Matrix Manhattan HR Giger...| Home on Matthieu Le Cauchois
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