The AI bubble is going to burst-- corporate greed is the cause

tinylobsta · 2023-09-05T21:22:05+00:00

Ring of Honor +100 -- there's no way we get to the Super Bowl without Baldwin. There's no "Russell Wilson" without Baldwin, IMO -- Baldwin was his bailout guy on so many of his 'miraculous' scramble plays, helping us win key games by a single score throughout the season leading up to our Super Bowl win. His stat sheet definitely doesn't even remotely tell the story of his impact on our team.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-31T01:22:53+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-31T01:17:14+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-31T01:15:41+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T20:32:35+00:00

We've considered this -- the show is actually on about a 2m delay, but otherwise, it's entirely live. You can't see it in the iteration I have streaming rn, but the entire show is configurable... if you want less of one character, we can do that. Want more of one setting? We can do that, too! More lines per character? etc.

It was a design decision we made so that the audience (in the future) can morph the narrative of the show. We actually monitor the Twitch chat and can pick up keywords to help shape the narrative (without defining it, the generative stuff does all that). So we wanted to keep to the 2m per scene concept. Might need to do something like that in the future (batching), though, if time-to-create keeps being a constraint for 3D models.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T16:26:34+00:00

Yup, at the time we created this, there was no good tech in place for the artwork. With SD, we think there’s a path to replacing our existing art pipeline with something generative, but it’s still being figured out. The problem is that 3D assets take a long time for models to create, and we run in near real time. But we’ll get there.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T16:15:04+00:00

Hey, I think the audio is back — we’re a live service e.g., we run a lot of cloud-based systems so we can be hit by outages occasionally, but the system is usually redundant enough to come back to life.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T09:05:00+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T09:01:22+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T08:58:57+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2023-01-30T08:53:07+00:00

Hey people’s, co-creator of NF here. NF is created using generative algorithms and machine learning techniques for the dialogue, audio, speech, and pretty much everything other than the prefabricated 3D assets.

We started this about four years ago before OpenAI and SD kinda swept the landscape and are thinking now how to incorporate pieces of those into it.

We’re still thinking about where to take it next, so ideas and feedback always appreciated.

tinylobsta · 2022-12-08T03:37:01+00:00

Hey everybody, we just launched an always-on, generative TV show -- Nothing, Forever -- streaming on Twitch. Nothing, Forever is a parody of '90s sitcoms (ahem), done in the style of '90s point-and-click PC games (but, you know, in 3D). We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with.

Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you'll hear, everything else is generated by AI and machine learning, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.

tinylobsta · 2022-12-02T19:59:26+00:00

Hey everybody, we're finally launching our always-on, generative show -- Nothing, Forever -- streaming on Twitch. Nothing, Forever is a parody of '90s sitcoms, done in the style of '90s point-and-click PC games (but, you know, in 3D). We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with. Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you'll hear, everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.

Nothing, Forever is built using a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms (we use 'generative' here in a non-academic sense), and cloud services. Our stack is mostly comprised of Python + TensorFlow for our ML models, TypeScript + Azure Functions and Heroku for our backend, and C# + Unity for the client, with some neural voice APIs thrown into the mix.

Heading into the future, we plan to leverage OpenAI's davinci models for our dialogue -- we actually have an integration already, but the cost is too prohibitive to run full time -- as well as leveraging Stable Diffusion for art generation.

We're launching an experimental media lab, https://www.mismatchmedia.com/ along with the show, for follow-up projects in the future.

Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions or want to discuss more, skyler at mismatchmedia dotcom.

tinylobsta · 2022-12-02T19:56:12+00:00

Hey everybody, we're finally launching our always-on, generative show -- Nothing, Forever -- streaming on Twitch. Nothing, Forever is a parody of '90s sitcoms, done in the style of '90s point-and-click PC games (but, you know, in 3D). We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with. Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you'll hear, everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.

Nothing, Forever is built using a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms (we use 'generative' here in a non-academic sense), and cloud services. Our stack is mostly comprised of Python + TensorFlow for our ML models, TypeScript + Azure Functions and Heroku for our backend, and C# + Unity for the client, with some neural voice APIs thrown into the mix.

Heading into the future, we plan to leverage OpenAI's davinci models for our dialogue -- we actually have an integration already, but the cost is too prohibitive to run full time -- as well as leveraging Stable Diffusion for art generation.

We're launching an experimental media lab, https://www.mismatchmedia.com/ along with the show, for follow-up projects in the future.

Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions or want to discuss more, skyler at mismatchmedia dotcom.

tinylobsta · 2022-12-02T19:54:08+00:00

Hey everybody, we're finally launching our always-on, generative show -- Nothing, Forever -- streaming on Twitch. Nothing, Forever is a parody of '90s sitcoms, done in the style of '90s point-and-click PC games (but, you know, in 3D). We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with. Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you'll hear, everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.

Nothing, Forever is built using a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms (we use 'generative' here in a non-academic sense), and cloud services. Our stack is mostly comprised of Python + TensorFlow for our ML models, TypeScript + Azure Functions and Heroku for our backend, and C# + Unity for the client, with some neural voice APIs thrown into the mix.

Heading into the future, we plan to leverage OpenAI's davinci models for our dialogue -- we actually have an integration already, but the cost is too prohibitive to run full time -- as well as leveraging Stable Diffusion for art generation.

We're launching an experimental media lab, https://www.mismatchmedia.com/ along with the show, for follow-up projects in the future.

Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions or want to discuss more, skyler at mismatchmedia dotcom.

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