🎸 It’s a wild time for Generative AI 🌄 A new era of (creative) AI has begun 🗣️ Language input has democratized AI 🔲 Foundation Models are here to stay 🖼️ “AI art” is now mainstream 😎 AI myths/bullshit & how to stay cool 🧑‍🏫 What to teach? Expertise/Skillset/Literacy 🧠…

This article explains VQGAN+CLIP, a specific text-to-image architecture. You can find a general high-level introduction to VQGAN+CLIP in my previous blog post “VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?” Here I am looking at the specific VQGAN+CLIP implementation written by artist/programmer Katherine Crowson (aka @RiversHaveWings) which went viral in the…

This tutorial contains 2 sets of instructions depending on the type of Raspberry Pi Zero you have: Case 1: Your Pi has WiFi enabled (e.g. Pi Zero W) Case 2: Your Pi doesn’t have WiFi enabled, e.g. the Standard Pi Zero (without a w in its name) Recently my media…

Wikidata is the nerdy cousin of Wikipedia. It’s a machine-readable user-editable graph database born in 2012. SPARQL is a query language that is used to query Wikidata (and other databases). The knowledge that you can extract from Wikidata with SPARQL is quite fascinating. Here are a few examples: 🐱 Mayors…

Personality and gender in voice assistants is not something that emerges due to the nature of “AI systems”. Rather, it is intentionally created based on the logic of market demand, gender biases, and prevalent unrealistic narratives about AI. Raw AI-ness could mean: Actively deconstructing narratives that parallel artificial intelligence with…

Note: This is a very short high-level introduction. If you’re more interested in code and details, check out my newer blogpost “Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)”! The synthetic imagery (“GAN Art”) scene has recently seen a kind of productivity explosion: A new kind of…

Das ist ein Brief an einen meiner Kunden, in dem ich ihm (sehr) ausführlich erkläre, warum ich den Facebook Pixel nicht einbauen werde. Ich veröffentliche diesen Brief um über die Invasität des Trackings durch Facebook aufzuklären. Facebook ist mit seinem Geschäft mit personalisierter Werbung ein zentraler Player im Surveillance Capitalism. …

The University of Art and Design BURG Giebichenstein in Halle (Germany) is known for its great workshops. …

This is Part 3 of a three-part series covering the Gatsby plugin gatsby-image Part 1: Graphql, generated files & markup Part 2: Responsive images 101 Part 3: Controlling src-set, breakpoints and styling Gatsby Image: What src-set property does it generate? If you’re dealing with a fixed image it is producing a src-set with a width-descriptor appended to each…