AI
AI upscaling API is here.
AI family tree and why it would be difficult to try another branch.
A woman clones herself with Synthesia, and has it quote ChatGPT lines over the phone and internet. It worked.
AI has already replaced DJs, but it's now replacing them in a new way.
The future of AI is plugins says this article.
Ray, a ML program, has an update that helps AI.
A nice look at Firefly from an art creator. It's nice but not mind-blowing in beta.
AI: Business
Runway is a video to video AI that just began to promote itself
Another LLM company has announced itself.
AI company hides the fact that they are just consultants
An investment company has $1 Billion ready for AI investment.
AI: Papers
A music to video generative AI
Stanford and Cornell propose Evaporate as a more efficient AI system.
Reusing ideas to help create better context
Making 3D animals for videogames using AI
In case you are wondering, papers like this help me with my Graduate Degree. It lets me list a bunch of sources that I only kind of sort of used. Diffusion models working together.
Semantra helps you search documents for the quote you want to reference.
Active learning in AI
A new low code LLM by Microsoft
SAG is now part of Automatic1111
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12yxle3/sag_is_here_sag_and_cfg_comparison/
LLM embeddings and how they work
AI: Papers: NeRF
A cover program for NeRF that allows geometry to be made from the creation.
FreeNerf lets you use fewer pictures. It can create small things like an apple.
AI: Demos and Art
Superheroes in the Middle Ages
A pizza commercial made entirely in AI looks a bit off
The great Gatsby made by AI. The audio is terrible.
Videos made by AI
https://nitter.it/NathanLands/status/1653030327667810310#m
Someone made a Skyrim mod where the characters are connected to ChatGPT and voice AI
The generations of MidJourney on display.
Pictures with coal miners and their finds
AI: Propaganda
AI is a waste of time. The article says it's just toys and boredom.
AI helps business management and work flow
Interview with the guy who quit Google. It looks more like he doesn't think the AI is safe, but all the propaganda says he thinks it's alive. He's using that to his advantage.
The Andy Warhol case that could effect aaI lawsuits.
AI: Propaganda: Godfather of AI
The Godfather of AI quit Google and is worried about it's standing in the world.
Interview with him in the New York Times. It reads like a propaganda piece.
Tech
Robotic bathroom cleaner
https://getsomatic.com/#p-home
Laptops on sale, various articles.
Carbon sheets for 3D printing over the layered system we have now.
The first wooden transistor.
People aren't buying into the next Windows. It's nice, but has too many hurdles.
Tech: 3D
Blender has the ability to link lights to objects. This means you can control what the light interacts with.
All sorts of 3D news. It could be in several categories like Film or Videogames.
Graphics Card prices are going down slightly. AMD is promoting more memory, while NVidia promotes AI.
Science
A new but expensive medication may help people lose weight.
Voyager 2 is being powered by backup energy and will continue to send messages as it travels the cosmos.
Picking your nose can cause dementia. The article gets a bit more intense with the words Chlamydia Pneumonia being in noses.
Is time travel possible? Sure, but not in any way you want it.
Science: Insects and Lights
A new study shows that insects aren’t trying to fly toward a light, they are trying to orient themselves with it. If the insect keeps the light on their back, they know up from down. But if its a light from a house, the insect tries to keep it to their back and thus gets caught in a type of orbit.
Here is the scientific paper itself.
Culture and History
There is a Garlic flavored Coca-Cola in Japan.
An Italian village is being repopulated by Americans. There's a joke in Argentina that you get homesick when you see pictures of Italy.
Speaking of Argentina, here is an article about the military occupation of Argentina. That's a thing most 1st world countries don't even consider. The military is considered its own political power in the country.
Sweden launched a rocket and hit Norway. Germany tells them, "that's very nice, but England is over there." My swedish and Norwegian friends have been telling similar jokes.
Wall art from the early medieval period has been found in Sudan. It's from a town that was between Muslims and Christians, and the art calls on God to protect the town from evil.
Business
Samsung stock drops 95%
Big companies have cut perks like free snack bars.
Death of the Category Killer.
A review of Disney, NBCUniversal and Spotify in business. Use it as a cross reference to other articles on this list.
Lyft fired 1,000 employees and then demanded the rest come into the office to work.
Business: Netflix
A Canadian law says that streaming sites have to make more Canadian based TV.
Netflix loses millions of users and subscribers after they try to stop multiple families using the same account.
Business: Meta
Meta promises AI in Instagram and Facebook, along with a Quest 3.
Facebook settlement allows people to sign up for a portion of $725 Million. Keep in mind, it has 200 million users.
Tutorial
Procedural Generation in Unreal Engine 5.2
Tutorial: Architecture
Architectural concept art through MidJourney
How to make a 3D bit from a 2D image. This is Neural Radiance Fields without AI putting stuff together.
Using Unreal and 3D scanning to show real life locations.
Getting the needed renders for your architecture using Lumion
Tutorial: Blender
A brick wall with the trowel tool
Procedural shading in Blender
Propaganda
DIY trans care is now a thing. Get ready for this to be talked about like abortion. Now everything is less safe because they're getting abortions outside of the medical field.
Russian Satellite observed a US satellite
Fat Girls get paid less and get less support in moving up the ladder
Equal Rights Amendment blocked by Republicans! The Constitutional Amendment that gives more equality to some has been abolished!
A women's sports only bar has made over a million dollars in 8 months.
AP reports that voter fraud is a conspiracy theory and any law makers talking about it are evil.
Republicans give something up to get something in return. Democrats angry that they had to give up the thing.
Jerry Springer passed away.
This came up in a discussion, so I had to share. There is a Hawaiian Pidgin New Testament.
https://www.bible.com/bible/76/MAT.1.HPB
Tucker Carlson was vile and horrible and nobody liked him.
Propaganda: Schools
Schools in Silicon Valley have the highest suicide rate in the nation.
Virginia Military Institute Diversity Officer says DEI is dead.
New bill let's non profit workers get student loan forgiveness, even if they enter into for profit industry. Money laundering? Bribery? Nah
Propaganda: Generations
As soon as the Boomers die or retire, the Millennials and Gen Z will be rich.
Gen Z is lonelier because of all the economic downturn.
Propaganda: Bob Chapek
The President of NBC Universal was caught having an affair and trying to fire his mistress. He was forced to resign. The man most likely to replace him? Bob Chapek. NBC Universal is over the Universal Theme Parks around the world.
Movie Theater owners complain about Bob Chapek.
Propaganda: Florida
School districts are banning books in Florida. Now it's trying to sound more nuanced and aiming it at angry moms.
Florida may get a fast lane camping law. It demands you let people pass you if they are going faster. We had this in Washington and it's very California.
Propaganda: Elon Musk
Elon Musk said things that worry this writer.
Twitter may get FTC fines for letting some people still have their blue checkmark as a gift from Elon Musk. This is really desperate thinking.
Elon Musk draws the line at some things. Euthanasia for example
Propaganda: China
Philippines and China clash over territory
Xi Jinping pressured to talk to Ukraine's Zelensky.
One in five men in Chinese cities are unemployed. They are to be sent to the fields for farming.
Propaganda: Disney
Bob Iger references Steve Jobs as a major influence in his career. This helps rumors that Disney is selling out to Apple.
DeSantis messed with the wrong fandom says Yahoo news.
A parody article says Disney is moving to Georgia. There have been several articles not noticing the last paragraph going around the internet.
Rubio doesn't want the government to constantly attack businesses that go against the party. He mentions Disney and Florida a lot.
The new district board over Disney voted to raise taxes. The only things to tax are the companies in Disney springs and the people who own Disney.
Those business owners spoke out against the ideas in a public hearing.
538 and Nate Silver were fired by Disney. Yeah, the entire thing was run by the mouse. It makes you see a lot of stuff in a new way.
Disney is suing Florida and this article says they will win.
More on the lawsuit. They keep calling it a feud.
It's the gold rush phase. Everyone creates the same product with slight differences. My favorite time like this was pinball.