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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse (And a Look at an AI-Assisted Social VR Platform, Riff XR)

Housekeeping Note: I first started writing this editorial back in April, and from time to time I have picked up the draft, tinkered with it a bit more, added a bit more to it—and then promptly filed it away again as a draft, because I still wasn’t satisfied with it, and I always felt that … Continue reading Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse (And a Look at an AI-Assisted Social VR Platform, Riff XR)

Future Trend: The Use of Artificial Intelligence Companions and Chatbots in the Metaverse (and I Decide to Test Out the Replika AI Chatbot)

Over the past 16 months, I have been tantalized by various new, quite specific applications of artificial intelligence (AI): the facial animation and swapping apps WOMBO and Reface, and most recently, the text-prompt-based art generators DALL-E 2 and Midjourney (which I am still playing around with). Today, I wanted to discuss the growing use of … Continue reading Future Trend: The Use of Artificial Intelligence Companions and Chatbots in the Metaverse (and I Decide to Test Out the Replika AI Chatbot)

A.I.-Generated Art: Comparing and Contrasting DALL-E 2 and Midjourney as Both Tools Move to an Open Beta

UPDATE Aug. 12th, 2022: I have just joined the beta test of Stable Diffusion, another AI art-generation program! For more information, please read Comparing and Contrasting Three Artificial Intelligence Text-to-Art Tools: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E 2 (Plus a Tantalizing Preview of AI Text-to-Video Editing!) You might remember that I was one of the lucky … Continue reading A.I.-Generated Art: Comparing and Contrasting DALL-E 2 and Midjourney as Both Tools Move to an Open Beta

UPDATED! DALL-E 2: Some Results (and Some Thoughts) After Using OpenAI’s Revolutionary, Amazing Artificial Intelligence Tool Every Day for Two Weeks to Create Images

For 50,000 years, artistic expression has been unique to mankind. Today, this hallmark of humanity is claimed by another. These images, generated by A.I., offer a glimpse into a future with unfathomable creative possibilites. What will the next 50,000 years bring? —BINARY DREAMS: How A.I. Sees the Universe This quote comes from an imaginative 3-minute … Continue reading UPDATED! DALL-E 2: Some Results (and Some Thoughts) After Using OpenAI’s Revolutionary, Amazing Artificial Intelligence Tool Every Day for Two Weeks to Create Images