[FRIAM] Wedtech Talk Oct 19: Richard Gabriel, AI, Creativity and the Inkwell Poetry Generator. (hybrid in-person/zoom)

[Gillian Densmore]

Ah found article about the Ai advancement I was thinking about:
https://aibusiness.com/document.asp?doc_id=780874#:~:text=Researchers%20from%20Google%20are%20the,Google%20unveiled%20back%20in%202021
.

Can someone ELi5 how they're doing it? very cool!

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:33 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Coolness! Is it only writing? or going to advances in 3D where Ai shows
> some promise to do as well or better than mere mortal humans? Because a
> computes is coming to a practical wall of cost, amount of silicon and chip
> density. Is reaching a practical limit from power draw to to expenses. Ai,
> Tensor Cores, and asynchronous computing clocks at the system and chip
> levels, are looking to need Ai to coordinate things as well as boost power
> and blah blah blah. A fall out of that is Neuronets do weirdly great and
> vastly accelerating compute times in raytracing, and ray marching. I assume
> people on this list can Eli5 to me why.
> I seem to recall somewhat recently, someone showing off how Ai can do some
> amount of 3D modelling. Anyone know anything about that? I think it was a
> proof of concept. Someone from MIT and Nvidia shows how a neuronet if given
> some kind of description did a not to bad job making buildings and some
> limited simulated physics. I don't know anything about the stupendous
> effort that'd go into that though.
> Onestep closer to star trek! LOL, oh c'mon you know we're thinking it. I'm
> just typing it.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 10:52 AM Stephen Guerin <
> stephen.guerin at simtable.com> wrote:
>
>> Speaker: Richard Gabriel
>> Location: Simtable office
>> Time: Oct 19 1230p
>>
>> will be streamed at https://zoom.redfish.com
>>
>> pizza will be avail for lunch. $5 a slice.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
>>
>> My hack at the basics of an announcement for Gabriel/Wetdtech.
>>
>> Our FriAM member-at-large, Jenny Quillen is visiting Santa Fe this week
>> and has Richard Gabriel in tow.   He has agreed to give a WedTech talk this
>> week (10/19) and the nominal topic will be on AI and Creativity, using
>> examples from his Poetry Generator: Inkwell.
>>
>> Some of you know Richard's long and storied history and career much
>> better than I, so I will just drop a few links in here for those who do not:
>>
>> Richard Gabriel's Wikipedia page
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel>
>>
>> Personal Website: Dreamsongs <https://dreamsongs.com/>
>>
>> Inkwell <https://dreamsongs.com/Files/InkWell.pdf>
>>
>> and a scholarly reflection on The Nature of Poetic Order
>> <http://www.natureoforder.com/library/nature-of-poetic-order.pdf> which
>> reflects on many of the ideas from Christopher Alexander's Opus: the Nature
>> of Order <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_Order> in the
>> context of poetry, what makes it work, and what makes it fail.  Among many
>> other things, Gabriel has been a significant figure in the Pattern's
>> community.
>>
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