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A place for my non-client CGI work and sharing art stuff that interests me, and possibly you.

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@PatrickClair It's a fair point, GPU/CPU rendering isn't cheap and a DALL-E image is relatively quick. However, the generative design/deep learning aspect required to create realistic mechanisms (e.g
a car or a robot) is very computationally expensive.

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@PatrickClair ...it's not just a group of lines, shapes or colours etc. It's a set of components that fits together for a purpose. I might be wrong but I don't see how you get to convincing depictions of complex mechanisms without this insight.

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@PatrickClair I'm no expert on machine learning and neural networks etc but fairly sure these image making A.I.'s are just visual, they have no capacity for understanding the structure of what they create. When an artist draws a car, they understand the car's structure and its function...

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@planetzomax Plus Next sounds like a clothing brand that sells garments for the larger lady.

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@PatrickClair ...computationally very expensive though and much more demanding in terms of user input/prompts.

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@PatrickClair It's interesting (I won't say ironic) that A.I. art algorithms are better at organic subject matter, e.g. a landscape, than they are at mechanical, designed objects, e.g. cars or robots etc. It's because they don't understand the subject and how and why parts fit together.

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@PatrickClair ...I'm not sure A.I. will ever be able to accurately imitate complex engineering using the methods employed by Midjourney and Dall-E etc. However, it could work if you combined the sort of generative design used in engineering and the visual approach of Midjourney et al.

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@tomgara Read what Douglas Hofstadter has written in the Economist recently about whether A.I. is conscious. TLDR, it's not.

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'Robots search for human life under the rubble in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.'

#midjourney

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This is a Jeff Wall photograph, apparently. Looks interesting. Made with @midjourney. #AI #midjourney #JeffWall

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@cgpov ..how to stop killing each other.

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...Currently most people are looking at A.I from a professional content-creation point of view and not considering how consumers may use it. It's fun, addictive even. There will still be a market for pro content but self-gen entertainment will be big. #selfgen #AI

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Artists are wringing their hands about A.I. and how it might affect their income. Will we see a Luddite rebellion? One thing is certain; producing A.I. content will become entertainment. Consumers will make their own images, animations, music etc. Cont.. #midjourney #AI

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@planetzomax Get one and learn to comp 3D into the video you shoot with the drone.

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'The artist Jeff Wall provided a good formulation for this conundrum when he said that there are two prominent myths about photography: the myth that it tells the truth and the myth that it doesn't.'

-Steve Edwards

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@Known_Edward If you could only use one number for the rest of your life, which number would you pick?

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@jamajurabaev1 @UnrealEngine I wish C4D/Octane could do this. UE is great for decals. @OTOY @JulesUrbach

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@SkiBums_NFT @gregyounger @dgtlsky I'm far from convinced that QE is 'by far the biggest factor'. I'd need to see some data and some credible opinions (e.g. respected economists) backing it up.

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@SkiBums_NFT @gregyounger @dgtlsky Quantitative easing/money printing is one factor, not the only one. Believing that inflation is always the result of monetary policy is far too simplistic and is a sort of hard-line Monetarist ideology.