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“To understand how we’ve achieved AGI, why it's only happened recently, after decades of failed attempts, & what this tells us about our own minds, we must re-examine our most fundamental assumptions — not just about AI, but the nature of computing.”

— @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & James Manyika

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On April 24th I have the great honor to share the stage with Casey Reas and Christiane Paul for a conversation about generative systems at the Great Hall at The Cooper Union in New York City.
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Oops, I should have checked that a bit earlier: turns out my dawing board bends down 5 mm in the center. Not great if a millimeter more or less already makes the stroke width vary considerably.

Starting to get some more trust in my robot not running into a wall or trying to pierce my canvas, so I dare to allow it some "broad strokes".

Of course the loss explodes if I measure similarity instead of distance, duh. I still don't know what it tries to optimize for here, but I kind of like the Moomin-graffiti vibes.

Maybe I should turn down the learning rate somewhat. But it does explode in a quite interesting way.

I have started to experiment again with diffvg and gradient descent on expressive vector strokes.

I'll be at @unireps.bsky.social this Saturday presenting a new experimental pipeline to visually explore structured neural network representations. The core idea is to take thousands of prompts that activate a concept, and then cluster and draw them using MultiDiffusion. 🧵👇

New year's resolution: remember to share more stuff in here.

Random idea: Gaussian splatting for sound generation / representation.

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