

On August 13, 2024, Sakana released the first comprehensive framework for fully automatic scientific discovery, AI Scientist .
Four days later, on August 17, 2024, I began to build an autonomous AI-Artist.

'Keyframe conditioning' allows for start and end frame to be designated.
AI interpolates between the forms.
In order to reduce carbon cost of production: nothing (except technical errors or blatant bias) is thrown away. Accepting the AI as a valid co-creator, an autonomous equal contributor. Setting aside ownership of aesthetic judgements. Trusting the machine, letting the algorithm lead.
#whole-AI-use.

Prompting 7 hours of 'reasonable' music is approx. 21 hours of work.
Contrast an arduous 20th century digital art apprenticeship (of years/decades of arduous physical practicing toward mastery of software, code, interfaces and instruments) with Artificial Immediacy music generation process. Birthing the listenership.

Playing with recursive feeds. AI eats AI.
Generating with AI, remixing locally, extending with AI.
Unfinished experiments.

An AI-generated audio-visual artistic-lecture about AI advances.
This rapid artistic overview of key scientific AI examples (that covers a year loosely defined as starting with the release of GPT-4 on March 14th, 2023) is framed by the hypothesis that fundamental research in science is being transformed by a practice predominantly associated with the arts: namely hallucinations. Inversely, the arts are being transfigured by a practice predominantly associated with science, namely research. It's also a theory about the incipient subjectivity of AI and how that relates to aesthetics. And it's told entirely with generated AI audio-visuals and voices, including a cloned voice of the author.
Profound, tender, moist, vulnerable, wonderful.
Life itself is a system of refractory splashes.

Suno v3 (Alpha) w. ReRites Lyrics.
Suno replicates a diverse variety of the central cliche hook audio-worm tropes of the music industry (pop, edm, etc). But Suno v3 also is capable of exploring fringe genres. It replicates emotive dynamics, vocal cadences, song structures, melodic inflections, drop beats and hybridized forms. Read & Listen
Full playlist of similar music on Suno: Emop: J-Popssibles Funkspeed-Mutations
View the complete series here. Identity Upgrade is an aesthetic attempt, made in conjunction with generative AI, to envision collective awakening pathways into an awareness of oceanic unity informed by network science, biochemistry, and neurological plasticity in cybernetic contexts.
Recently published: "Embodied AI: An Extended Data Definition",
Electronic Book Review, November 5, 2023
AI-Video + essay: "Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need",
Fundamental research in science is being transformed by a practice predominantly associated with the arts: namely hallucinations., February-May, 2024
Ongoing AI-research-bookmarks and occasional idea-thoughts: "AI Spring" (google doc of links). Same material is also sent onto Substack: "Xtending Digital Narrative" (Jhave's Ai links)
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