Abodid Sahoo

MA Digital Direction, @RCA London; Exploring the crossover of storytelling, music, art, and tech. Past academic stints at NIT Rourkela and NID Ahmedabad.

[Dami-Defi @DamiDefi]

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[Sugandha @sugandhanisa]

i am hosting an AI film festival. there is no money and no big names attached. no red carpets ffs. in fact it's just me, online or offline if you're in london.

we'll talk about the art we always wanted to make but couldn't for any reason (skill or money or time or confidence).

we'll watch, read, and learn filmmaking. we'll look into how and why new hollywood and italian neorealism and parallel cinema started, and look for the fundamentals in them to make 'making' paramount and the medium of AI irrelevant to the discussion.

we'll not build hype cycles and commercial events because that makes the whole damn thing more pointless and juvenile.

we'll exchange strengths like writing, photography, screenplay etc. we'll be optimistic about tech's purpose but think beyond it.

it's not gonna be huge. it's gonna be small and it won't matter to anyone else but you and me.

who's in.

[Abodid Sahoo @abodidsahoo]

@sugandhanisa I would have loved to join offline in London. But I am not in London at the moment. If there is a way to join online, I would love to.

[Sugandha @sugandhanisa]

Most of AI media tech is solving for fidelity. Techies who've never dabbled in the making of art assume that's the key to immersive content. Wrong.

Much like an indie filmmaker, the tech industry needs to make constraints a part of the creative process. Duration, compute, consistency... aren't challenges to be solved by AI alone, the storytelling needs to evolve, too.

"Immersiveness" doesn't come from tech. It comes from story.

[Nirvana @Nirvana]

Steve Albini.

[Abodid Sahoo @abodidsahoo]

@aastha985 so what's your fav ramen place in london? a ramen aficionado here!

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

[Original text: https://t.co/HdI3Jb9HmF ]

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@vishlbhardwaj @sagar_ux @bycreativeblock Float

[Abodid Sahoo @abodidsahoo]

One of the best set of advices and ideas I have read in a while.

2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished.

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me https://t.co/4AE8Mg2lVt

[Royal College of Art @RCA]

Sumayya Vally (@RCAarchitecture Tutor) is Artistic Director of the first Islamic Arts Biennale taking place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia until 23 May.

We spoke to her about the contribution of Islam to art and architecture.

Read our interview ➡️ https://t.co/jOrX33DCFz

[Abodid Sahoo @abodidsahoo]

@elonmusk Can I have a ticket?

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@SpaceX @elonmusk The photographs looks so surreal!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches 52 Starlink satellites to orbit

[Abodid Sahoo @abodidsahoo]

You take chances of all kinds,
A lifetime to find the peace of mind,
Holding charms, whispering the words;
The Miracle appeared in the dust;

- Anna // by Desingly, Racoon Racoon

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@elonmusk And I still face phone network issues in London with @LycamobileUK

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Just posted a photo @ ToastMasters International https://t.co/jD3UzqqOyr

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Just posted a photo @ Bhubaneswar, India https://t.co/dVGtzDJZpq

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@abolijoshi @johngreen This is from which book? Looks like an interesting read.

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Just posted a video https://t.co/2GGby9ZlUu

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Just posted a photo @ Mumbai, Maharashtra https://t.co/zMAdEoPBP0