Drones raining from the sky in Zhengzhou 😬 Word on the street is that a rival drone company that lost the bid interfered to overwhelm the drones nav system!

My recent conversation with Futurist Trond Arne Undheim is out! We got to cover a lot of fun and important topics in design, fabrication, and the future of how we make things.

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote its 1st draft in 2009. After 10yrs of rewrites (+ $21m from Netflix), it has created $900m in value. Conversely, Dong-hyuk could have created the same value by buying 15k BTC for only $150 ($0.01 in 2009). LESSON:Showbiz is a money sink.

40+ years ago... The Gurgel Itaipu E150 electric car.

Birth of a neuron. Stem cell differentiating into a brain cell: #neuroscience

Felt knobs and 3D enclosure for Bitty pocket drum machine by Nickolas Peter & friends - now live for everyone on my YouTube channel. Sponsored by DigiKey youtu.be/okRKcGSsdw0 #digikey

Neurons making friends with each other on a grid: #neuroscience

Job market for creatives, 2023: - Senior Prompt Artist - Generative Video Supervisor - Model Training Art Director - Senior Model Strategist - Associate Dataset Curator - Hyper-targeted Ad Director What else?

Never underestimate a person‘s ability to double down on a bad take.

In 1939, William E. Urschel created a technology very similar to the one used for today's 3D printed building. He did it behind a small warehouse in Valparaiso, Indiana and called it "Wall Building" machine [full video: buff.ly/3tHAJiz]

In 1663, the skull of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered along with the tusk from a narwhale & the front legs of a mammoth in Germany. This is how the “Magdeburg Unicorn” was assembled, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history [read more: buff.ly/3VqGAEC]

Before you get sick of OpenAI tricks, one fun one. You & an android are in front of a judge. The judge tells each of you to say one word. They will then kill whoever they think is the AI based on that. An MIT paper calls this the "minimum Turing test." What do you say? 1/

The AI Mirror Test The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded. In the classic

Excited to co-chair the Creative AI track at NeurIPS Conference this year with @JeanOhCmuBIG. The call is out! Submit.

This is good explanation and worth reading on how scaling always runs out in the real world. And in this particular case how it applies to the reality of LLMs. In my seven deadly sins of AI prediction I refer to it as "exponentialism". aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-scaling-m…

Due to a number of requests, we are extending the paper & artwork submission deadline to *Aug 16*, 23:59 anywhere on earth. For more info, see our website: neurips-creative-ai.github.io/2024/

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The future of AI is physical! Amazing work on physical agents by Ethan Chang and Quincy Kuang

Mary Ann Liebert Inc The article, “From Words to Worlds: Exploring Generative 3D Models in Design and Fabrication,” was written by Valdemar Danry, Cenk Guzelis (University of Innsbruck), Lingdong Huang (@futuresketches), Prof. Neil Gershenfeld (MIT Center for Bits + Atoms), and Prof. Pattie Maes

The call for the NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track is out! We invite research papers and artworks that explore cutting edge applications of AI and ML in art, design, and creative practice. For more information, visit: neurips.cc/Conferences/20… #NeurIPS #creativeAI