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🤖 Fun With Neural Networks: Janelle Shane is the reigning queen of making funny, silly, and downright bizarre texts with neural networks: here's a celebration of her brilliant work. https://t.co/32lSYwQ0MU @JanelleCShane

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💻 "You i i i i i everything else" If a good artist imitates and a great artist steals, wouldn’t a computer program designed to steal be the greatest artist ever? https://t.co/oznf8ql7aL #art #AI #

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🙀 Neural Network Nightmare Fuel: Warning: this post contains images that may be disturbing, particularly to the trypophobic and those averse to badly drawn cats https://t.co/ojhqYUNs6y @chrisrodley @christophrhesse

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💙 Are we human, or are we dancer...or are we robots? How robots are influencing that most human of activities: dancing. And yes, of course the @bluemangroup get involved. https://t.co/2W4huDbQbw

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😳 Do you want your stories to guide you, or vice-versa? In the future, movies could play you like a fiddle: tailoring the narrative for each individual viewer to tap into their individual fears, hopes and urges. https://t.co/qM1r0Djfow #VR #movies

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✅ It's hell making money as an artist - but the Blockchain (oh yes) & the ability to make Dank Memes might not only mean that money can be made - but could be the future of creativity itself. https://t.co/xZjZw7XDAd @taweili

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🤖 Bots are falling in love with AI - and it might lead to the evolution of a new type of life on earth. And if you think that's a wild theory, let me tell you: it's already happening. https://t.co/NUwII1Xeti @danrl_com

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💊 Muzak replacing Prozac: music might be your new medicine. It can improve your memory, help people with severe head trauma & aid stress management. Magical! https://t.co/SOhDkdkeOs @syncprojectco @bose

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🎞 In the unintentionally amusing 2002 sci-fi epic Equilibrium, art and emotions are illegal. Christian Bale struggles to keep a straight face as he shoots lots of people and computers. https://t.co/xUsjYvhfS4 @HDTGM @theflophousepod

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📀 Everything is a remix now. Technology has always created unexpected artistic opportunities: but what about when creativity works the other way - and the art influences the tech? https://t.co/856b1nyq7j @remixeverything

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🥁 New Musical Excess: musicians are ignoring the newest instruments. We’re in an age of constant technical innovation - so where are all the new musical instruments? https://t.co/4ytthXmyU3

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🎼 The future of music recommendation might not be so algorithmic as it is now... because we still hanker after the warmth of human selection. So what happens next? https://t.co/nfalKMQLHW

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🤖 The Twitter bot artists that make hell a more pleasant place: Some people - art-bot creators and the bots themselves - are trying to make our self-imposed hell a more beautiful place to live. https://t.co/uO6yL6V2og @bjbest60 @ArtyBots @wayspurrchen @thricedotted

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🐦 Twitterature: How Twitter - yes, Twitter - has changed the art of literature - yes, literature - from the Bard to baby shoes, bots to books. https://t.co/0bMmWDBDC0 @ranjit @melissaterras

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🖼 V-Art: If VR brings us close to - or inside - existing works of art, how does that change the relationship between the artist and us, the people who gawp at it? Is VR really, as Bjork says, a “private circus?” https://t.co/f9w8fyV76W

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🐲Indie games made with Twine have more in common with art and literature than games in the mainstream. Here's a short intro to the genre & our favorite hypertext stories: https://t.co/Zc2DYlywo8 @UnburntWitch @slimedaughter

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💻 Creativity is one of the few things that makes us unique as humans. Which is why it feels so thrilling, and terrifying, if AI becomes creative – if it hasn't already. https://t.co/CI8eZ1mSXv @vanarman @SimonGColton

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👋 The Wild World Of Human Augmentation: Who has already added things to their body? Why did they do it? MONTAG peers under the skin to find out what it takes to become a cyborg. https://t.co/gS0MTGI3nH @moonribas @NeilHarbisson

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💩 Biohacking: you are what you eat. The biohacking community are taking big risks for huge rewards – oh, and it sometime involves eating poop. And you'd probably do it, too. https://t.co/zqzSusoCSV @4LOVofScience

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💪 Sell Yourself (Part 2). There are many, many parts of your body you can sell, several of which you can part with painlessly (and live!) ...and did you ever wonder who’s buying? https://t.co/RJ5gD2Sshh