I mean, I guess I could've just used a pic like this to accomplish the same thing…no AI required! (Just lots of oxygen and calories. )
@mjasay
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Epic Cinematic Landscape Generation with AI Image Synthesis
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Here was the prompt: place this man in an epic cinematic landscape with dramatic mountains in background captured with a nikon d 850 and a nikon AF – S NIKKOR 70 – 200mm f/ s2. 8E FL ED VR lens,with a shallow depth of field 16:9 –s 750 –v 5 –q 2 –
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Midjourney changes image subject when prompted background edit
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Can anyone help me understand why Midjourney (been fiddling with it at @monkchips
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AI System Generates Wisdom From Input Data
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Turns out if you insert food into that guy, he spits back wisdom!
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AI Development Acceleration: Major Changes Ahead for Software Engineering
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Take this from @Steve_Yegge (
https://
about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-
is-all-you-need
…) and add this from @simonw (
https://
simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai
-enhanced-development/
…) and this from @peternixey (
https://
x.com/peternixey/sta
tus/1640002493630369792?s=20
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Replenishing the Commons: Training Data Sustainability Challenge
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I don't know how to engineer it but it feels like there needs to be some way to ensure the commons (from which the training data is pulled) gets replenished.
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AI Training Data Crisis: Documentation and GPL Solutions
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Was discussing this with @monkchips
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Conspicuous Consumption in AI and Technology Markets
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I should've entitled it "conspicuous consumption"
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Python Emerges as Top AI/ML Skill in Stanford HAI Report
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I never joke about serious things. 🙂 (There's a new Stanford HAI report and Python is the most in-demand skill for AI/ML folks. So I wrote a bit about why.)
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New Python Programming Guide Published Monday
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I just wrote another post about Python. Publishes Monday