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Jan 20

Can ChatGPT do image recognition?

This is a quick experiment to test if ChatGPT can do a computer vision task such as image recognition. When prompted directly with the question “Can you process images?”, ChatGPT replies promisingly: ChatGPT doesn’t have a media upload functionality, so we have to supply the image via a text-based form…

Chatgpt

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Can ChatGPT do image recognition?
Can ChatGPT do image recognition?
Chatgpt

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Jan 16

Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)

🎸 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 🧠…

Creativeai

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Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)
Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)
Creativeai

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Apr 11, 2022

Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)

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…

Creativeai

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Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)
Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)
Creativeai

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Feb 27, 2022

How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for video art installations)

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…

Raspberry Pi

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How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for…
How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for…
Raspberry Pi

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Jan 9, 2022

10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier

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…

Wikidata

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10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
Wikidata

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·Updated Jan 12, 2022

Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants

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…

Design

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Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants
Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants
Design

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Aug 3, 2021

VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?

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…

Clip

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VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?
VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?
Clip

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Jun 17, 2021

Warum ich das Trackingtool “Facebook Pixel” nicht auf Kundenwebseiten einbaue (auch wenn der Kunde dies möchte)

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. …

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Warum ich das Trackingtool “Facebook Pixel” nicht auf Kundenwebseiten einbaue (auch wenn der Kunde…
Warum ich das Trackingtool “Facebook Pixel” nicht auf Kundenwebseiten einbaue (auch wenn der Kunde…

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Mar 9, 2021

AI at the art school — critical and creative AI research at the XLab

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

Creativeai

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AI at the art school — critical and creative AI research at the XLab
AI at the art school — critical and creative AI research at the XLab
Creativeai

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Dec 7, 2019

Understanding gatsby-image (Part 3): Controlling sizes, breakpoints and styling

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…

CSS

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Understanding gatsby-image (Part 3): Controlling sizes, breakpoints and styling
Understanding gatsby-image (Part 3): Controlling sizes, breakpoints and styling
CSS

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Alexa Steinbrück

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