AI! AI! AI! AI! AI!
Are you tired of hearing about AI yet? I can’t be the only one who’s getting Tech FOMO. Whether it be Crypto/Web3, Generative AI, or whatever the next thing will be (and there will be a next thing!), the tech industry has a habit of pouncing and running wild with it. If you have an ear to the ground, it’ll feel like everyone has an angle on the current hot thing.
Go at your own pace
Maybe it is my personality, but I don’t have a desire to be the best, whatever that means. I want to be the best version of myself, and for that to happen requires me to be motivated and not stressed.
When dealing with a frustrating situation, technical, personal, or otherwise, often the most helpful thing is to take a break.
This is been true for me at work with 20 minute breaks or taking a day off, as well as hobbies like taking a month off from photography. This blog post, I started June 30th (published late August!), as the original commit recorded. I could not wrap my thoughts into a conclusive post and the motivation to finish it was not there. Since then, Photoshop has released Generative Fill and I’m sure countless more AI startups have popped up. But does it make this post any less relevant? Nope.
Go at your own pace
I think my blog is mostly about personal lessons, with a sprinkling of stuff to show for it. I’m actually not going to write too much on AI here, but I’ve dabbled in media synthesis so I’ll share a bit of fun I had with it.
What’s interesting to me about AI is that the state of the art is still parroting what it learns, which is fine, but that alone typically generates too wild of an output (any format: text, image, audio, etc). The next step in this field is to have more control – sanitize it for creative uses or corporate applications. Here’s some experimentation with QR codes (not all scan properly – it requires more tuning than I cared for!).
Thanks for reading. I had fun with this one.
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