on Jul 17, 2022 11:36 am
The Ultimate guide to DALL·E 2: how to use it & how to get access
Everything you might want to know about Open AI’s DALL•E 2, the revolutionary new AI artwork creation tool.
DALL·E is an AI art web app, designed by Open AI, which uses artificial intelligence to turn sentences (like ‘A grey horse galloping along a beach at sunset’) into images. It can also accept images uploads and modify them.
https://dallery.gallery/
on Jul 17, 2022 11:36 am
“Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.” – Satoshi Nakamoto, circa 2009
“They mistook leverage for genius.” – Steve Eisman, FrontPoint Partners, circa 2008 (portrayed by Steve Carrell in “The Big Short”)
“We are in the process of communicating with relevant parties and fully committed to working this out.” – Zhu Su, Three Arrows Capital, June 15, 2022
Over the past eight weeks a series of seemingly robust pillars of the cryptocurrency industry have fallen. They knocked each other over like dominoes, and as they hit the ground they shattered. Our pillars, it turns out, were made of glass.
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/07/12/satoshi-wept-how-crypto-replayed-the-2008-financial-crisis/
on Jul 17, 2022 09:36 am
As the DALL-E community grows bigger and a part of our daily lives, multimodal artists and their audiences may seek greater novelty. Gone are the days where you could just share an image “in the style of picasso” and get recognition from others for your DALL-E 2 creation.
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/dall-e-2-unbundling
on Jul 17, 2022 08:36 am
Music written by teams, David Byrne once wrote, is arguably more accessible than that written by a sole composer. Collaborations, he mused, may result in more “universal” sentiments. But what if your partner isn’t human at all, but ? Now music producers are enlisting AI to crank out hits.
https://www.wired.com/story/music-written-by-artificial-intelligence/
on Jul 17, 2022 07:36 am
Throughout her career, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as an art form, putting her body at the center of events in space and time to engage with contemporary artistic, social, and political circumstances.
This month sees the launch of her first NFT project, The Hero 25FPS, a collaboration with CIRCA due to be minted on Tezos on 25 July, 2022.
Described as “a performance hosted on the blockchain,” the work revives the central theme of 2001’s The Hero, to be presented across the CIRCA global network of screens in London, Seoul, Milan, Berlin, Tokyo, Dublin, and New York — appearing every evening at 20:22 for three months. Filmed at 25 frames per second, unreleased material from the original work has now been separated into thousands of unique frames. Audiences will be invited to collect either a single unique frame (JPEG) or multiple unique frames in the form of a GIF. Given the artist’s centrality to the world of contemporary art, her decision to embrace the NFT community has profound implications for the future of the art world.
https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-marina-abramovic
on Jul 16, 2022 11:36 pm
Neom, the Saudi crown prince’s urban megaproject, is supposed to have a ski resort, swim lanes for commuters, and “smart” everything. It’s going great—for the consultants.
The chosen site in Saudi Arabia’s far northwest, stretching from the sun-scorched Red Sea coast into craggy mountain badlands, has summer temperatures over 100F and almost no fresh water. Yet, according to MBS and his advisers, it will soon be home to millions of people who’ll live in harmony with the environment, relying on desalination plants and a fully renewable electric grid.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabia/
on Jul 16, 2022 10:36 am
In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Professor Helen Thompson, Tim Marshall and Dr Daniel Yergin to discuss the global energy market.
https://engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/worldview-reflections-on-war-the-battle-for-energy-resources/
on Jul 16, 2022 09:36 am
It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it.
t is one of the very first programs that load when most computers power up. It enables the hardware running the machine to interact with the software, governs its use of resources, and acts as the foundation of the operating system. It is the core building block of nearly all cloud computing, virtually every supercomputer, the entire internet of things, billions of smartphones, and more.
But the kernel is also open source, meaning anyone can write, read, and use its code. And that’s got cybersecurity experts inside the US military seriously worried. Its open-source nature means the Linux kernel—along with a host of other pieces of critical open-source software—is exposed to hostile manipulation in ways that we still barely understand.
“People are realizing now: wait a minute, literally everything we do is underpinned by Linux,” says Dave Aitel, a cybersecurity researcher and former NSA computer security scientist. “This is a core technology to our society. Not understanding kernel security means we can’t secure critical infrastructure.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/14/1055894/us-military-sofware-linux-kernel-open-source/
on Jul 15, 2022 08:36 am
Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform. “The content she wrote is of high quality and the entries were interconnected, creating a system that can exist on its own,” veteran Chinese Wikipedian John Yip told VICE World News. “Zhemao single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
on Jul 14, 2022 11:41 am
In this episode of Objects of Affection, Lady Amanda Harlech takes Vogue on a tour through Karl Lagerfeld’s treasures ahead of a landmark Sotheby’s auction. Watch as Amanda shows everything from Karl’s beautiful royal blue upholstered Bruno Paul couch to his replica Adolph Menzel paintings.
Inside Karl Lagerfeld’s French Home Filled With Wonderful Objects | Vogue
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