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05
Nov
24

The Art of AI


If interested, a deeper understanding in the subject of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) refer to this arti

The last decade has brought to the attention of the general public the revolutionary realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

If interested, a deeper understanding in the subject of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) refer to this article that elaborates on these, and an opinion on their social influence going forward:

https://www.publish0x.com/naykdhodlr/artificial-intelligence-to-be-feared-or-not-xmyxwkp

The most common available for public use, a language model AI, produced by Open AI known as Chat GPT. Since its introduction, has passed through several iterations each gaining a larger ‘cloud’ of universal knowledge fueling its algorithm to respond to `prompt’ queries put to its resolve.

The subject to this post is related to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), the progression of GAI’s capabilities in the realm of ART in all its format, medium forms: graphics, photography, visual arts, videography, etc…

GAI specifically, a Text-to-Image Synthesis Model is characterized by its ability to generate original images from natural language descriptions, or prompts.

The following lists the latest Text-to-Image Synthesis Model:

  1. BiLSTMS on color generation: A model specifically designed for color generation, using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) networks.
  2. alignDRAW (2015): One of the first modern text-to-image models, extending the DRAW architecture with a recurrent variational autoencoder and attention mechanism.
  3. StackGAN (2016): A generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture for text-to-image synthesis, combining the strengths of ProGAN and StackGAN.
  4. AttnGAN (proposed): An Attentional Generative Adversarial Network for fine-grained text-to-image generation, utilizing attention-driven, multi-stage refinement.
  5. Stable Diffusion (2022): A state-of-the-art text-to-image model, part of the Stable Diffusion architecture, capable of generating high-quality images from text descriptions.
  6. DALL-E 2 (2022): A text-to-image model developed by OpenAI, known for its ability to generate photorealistic images from text prompts.
  7. Imagen (2022): A text-to-image model developed by Google Brain, capable of generating high-quality images from text descriptions.
  8. Midjourney (2022): A text-to-image model known for its ability to generate artistic and photorealistic images from text prompts.
  9. Dzine (formerly Stylar.ai): A text-to-image model known for its ability to generate artistic and photorealistic and video images from text prompts.
  10. Leonardo: A text-to-image model known for its ability to generate artistic and photorealistic images from text prompts.

These models have been developed and refined over the years, with some achieving state-of-the-art results in text-to-image synthesis tasks. They utilize various techniques, such as attention mechanisms, generative adversarial networks, and diffusion models, to generate high-quality images from text descriptions a.k.a.: prompt.

Being keen to explore the capabilities of these various Models, a chance given by short-term free access to challenge their capacities; the following are image samples from four of those listed above:

DALLE-2.ai Prompt: ‘a decades of humanity’s existence pass into millennia, unfortunately, it’s collective intelligence is superseded by its demonstrative stupidity.’

MIDJOURNEY.ai Prompt: ‘Star Wars prince of evil advancing a realm of violent fear

LEONARDO.ai Prompt: ‘Create the image of a unique automobile design incorporating the iconic features of both Porsche and Ferrari

Dzine.ai In this instance rather than exploring what could be `prompt’ generated, is to take an image from Midjourney and Leonard, to measure its ability to enhance and AI prompt generated image:

Midjourney.ai:

Dzine.ai:

LEONARDO.ai:

Dzine.ai:

As can be observed the clarity, alteration and realism from one to another AI model by comparison is much improved.

To illustrate the opportunity the Dzine.ai model affords the enhancement of photographed images and have them illustratively, creatively altered is astonishing to say the least:

Photograph: Street Graffiti Art

Dzine.ai: Revision

These are just few of the many images either uniquely created from a worded prompt, or alteration, variation from an existing image be it AI generated, or an original photograph. Dzine.ai has too the opportunity to create a video stream generated from a worded prompt as yet to be explored/

For the community of Artists of all genre, and medium; these generational tools are both a curse and a blessing for reasons that are self-evident. That said, the challenge is to look for new opportunities to exploit the advantages Generative Artificial Intelligence affords going forward as it obviously, is just the beginning.

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09
Mar
21

NEW AGE OF ART: DIGITAL


The current phenom to the Art world seems to be a Computer enabled with applicable software capable of manipulating ones and zeros into an as yet to be imagined – imagery. An art-form unique in its presence as to demand not only critical attention, but currency exchange in the form of fiat or crypto. Who’d of thunk it?

Personally, I have enjoyed over the years as hardware and application software advanced, the thrill of digital manipulation either in the form of graphics, photo-manipulation as well as video-animation. But never took the concept of such works being worthy of currency exchange. Ultimately, the value of beauty or artful worthiness remains in the EYE, of the beholder.

To that end, here is a sampling of some of that produced over the decades. Many specifically to contextualize a poem or essay:

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16
Jan
20

Forever


forever poem

 

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05
Jul
18

State of the Ridiculous


There are times when few words are needed to speak volumes:

Trump World

Trump on Trump

Should anyone be surprised?

13
Feb
18

tesla in space


The recent achievement of Elon Musk and Space-X, to launch a heavy rocket, carrying a rather unusual payload of a Tesla Roadster,  need to be acknowledged for their greatness and the wonders of science and engineering advancement of Earthly ambition to venture into deep space.

By way of these modest representations of the Space traveler in his Tesla Roadster to the  out and beyond, through these series of imagined, spun renderings of the Spaceman’s encounter:

 

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17
Apr
17

EROTIC DIGITAL DESIRES


The Internet provides an opportunity to discover interesting `tools’ designed by those who have the capacity to do so and then, find interesting ways to utilize these tools possibly in ways not originally intended.  Just such a tool I discovered is presented by

ava-sessions: ex machina

It is clear by now that a tsunami of `porn’ related material is widely available via the Internet that spans the full spectrum of sexual act performed by persons of a comparable spectrum of sexual orientation.

The objective here is to marry the two by utilizing a digital conversation tool that essentially maps the content of a digital photo (jpeg or similar). The result is as an example here:

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To view the product of this marriage, armed with a YouTube account when requested to `sign in’, you can view a brief video titled: Erotic Digital Desires

 

07
Oct
16

CREATIVE COMPOSITION?


The question of creating a rendering composed of different works, some sourced from the Internet, while others originating from one’s own library of photos, graphics, etc..

Can the result be deemed original or potentially, copyright infringement for those elements sourced from the public domain?

For instance; this is the result of just such a manipulation:

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The base image is one found on the Internet using the search phrase: scary landscapes,

Image result for scary landscapes

Then adding an element taken from an original photo:

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Then utilizing a photo-editing software, add a few elements such as an eery moon and some flash lightening for dramatic effect, finish the rendering  with essentially a different story being told from the base image.

castle-night2Image result for scary landscapes

 

 

30
Sep
16

Alfa Romeo Veloce Spider


 

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Alfa Romeo Veloce Spider

A– audaciously present
L– lovably luxurious
F– fervently real
A– aspiring joy

R– romance inciting
O– overt beauty
M– menacingly real
E– eclipsing transcendence
O– octane fuelled

V– vindicating presence
E – exquisite form
L– laudable performance
O– omnipresent
C – charismatic personality
E– enviable ownership

S– sensation stimulating
P– performance enduring
I– inspiring endurance
D–discernable styling
E–engineering marvel
R–rigorously enduring

24
Nov
15

The Life Drawing Model


Performing naked, fully exposed;
Before fledgling artists awaiting the next pose;
Possibly curious to how, with no clothes,
Save for the socks that cover ugly toes,
How is it, this profession, one chose.

Frankly speaking, being naked, a must;
Truth to this doing amounts to no fuss;
Simply put, it is a matter of trust
That, as aspiring young artists, void of lust,
Focus is the image to paper, with charcoal dust.

Ultimately, left to the life-model to diffuse,
To be the centre, the inspirational muse,
Ideally wanting to vary provocative views;
Challenges what form of pose to peruse;
That stimulate creativeness; beauty to infuse.

In the end, it is a matter of mutual respect:
The artist to give, the life model to get;
For combined their energies are there to beget
Truth; beauty of the human form is not a threat;
A reality Artists provide the world, to never forget.

23
Nov
15

naykd poetry


You are invited to preview my latest addition of self-published books titled: NAYKD POETry; a provocative collection of poems and prose reflective of the sexual renascence presently being enjoyed especially within the Lesbian and Gay communities around the world. Though graphic by its nature, sexual expression of this form is not meant to be exploitive but rather, robustly exhilarating for the libido and fertile to the imagination, dwelling on the lustfully erotic.




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