Forms of life, forms of mind

5 responses to “Experiments in AI Art #7: Midjourney and DallE3”

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   Maria Fátima Pereira

   May 13, 2024

   Maravilhosas!!!!
   Surrealismo na ciência e ficção científica.
   Obrigada por partilhar.

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   Saksham Sharma

   May 14, 2024

   Awe-inspiring and breathtaking pics! Thank you for sharing. The one with butterfly under ocean and solar systems with hidden faces – are my favourite.

   If it is possible to post a separate document of the exact prompts involved in the final creation, that might perhaps be helpful for the beginners.

   Regards.

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      Mike Levin

      May 14, 2024

      Thanks. Yes I agree the prompts would be useful; the problem is that when it saves the files, it doesn’t include the full prompt (partial prompt can be seen when mousing over the images in the gallery here). I save these things over the months, and then when I collect and post, I don’t have time to go back and figure out what the full prompt is for each one… Maybe someday the AI will be smart enough to do it for me – all the prompts are still there in my Discord history, so in theory it could be a mechanical process to recover them and update the blog post.

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         Saksham Sharma

         May 17, 2024

         Thank for the kind response, and yes, I understand that prompt recovery is quite a mechanical process.

         On an interesting note, I feel like sharing something which is mechanical on surface, but quite intangible in its core:
         There is a famous anecdote (https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/isoc/twins.htm) recorded by Oliver Sacks about twin brothers, diagnosed with autism and savant syndrome, who would communicate to each other in large digit (more than eight, until twenty – in some versions of the story) prime numbers. I always felt that an AI image/video generation of that episode (the video of those twins doing so do not exist, and best we can do is trust Oliver’s words) can bring the exchange alive, however, still it would not be *incomplete*.

         Regards.

         P.S. : I did try making some short AI snippets of those twin brothers laughing and talking.

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   Mike Levin

   May 17, 2024

   I remember reading about this in someone else’s book (not Sacks’). It’s an amazing example with lots of implications. I think there have been more since then that are somewhat similar in the key features (mathematical ability without training).

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