Long Man of Wilmington

In a uk old books pile

Google DeepMind article on 15 tears of Ai game research https://deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content=

Exploring new frontiers of AI and games research

Google DeepMind partners with game developers to build generalist agents like SIMA 2 and unlock breakthrough gameplay experiences across persistent worlds.

deepmind.google

I posted about threejseval in my weekend newsletter - I’m super impressed by this tough battle won by the new Gemini flash 3.7 for pennies.

Actual thing Sol said to me as I analyze gothic novel sentences: “You do not enter Silence. Silence falls over the library. Wind moves through the gallery. Candlelight reveals the nursery. A veil obscures a portrait in the drawing-room.”

Mont Blanc still blanc, thank goodness (hot even in the Alps)

Everyone I follow who is a credentialed, serious AI researcher (and model trainer) is shaken by the alignment security breaches as that count goes up. All are sharing this Eric Wallace talk as a must watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

Constantly saying “wtf” at headlines these days

this is really amazing, if you care about image analysis.

Ah, covered in my newsletter but the weights came out after :) Minimax H3 model plus spaces for trying it: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

Latest newsletter: testing the new open weights video models (very good!) and the usual 3d/splat/three.js toys, a good look at AI gen fiction on Amazon (including sales), some games-adjacent links, web toys, data science tip/tools […]

Wow

I have new model exhaustion

This season of Silo — I find I don’t care at all about the historical backstory of how this happened; it’s too easily imaginable that a bunch of dumb assholes in power fucked up the world and made underground slave cultures with drugs and AI

Map from Le Monde of active European fires - look at Malta and Northern Africa egad

Codex Sol xhigh - “Fix my nvidia gpu driver”.

Bizarre NYT headline on this HF case — “OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library”

40 mins from me is a municipal campground on a hill, in trees, that is 5 degrees cooler and has a little bar/restaurant. it’s always quiet, i think it’s a very well kept secret.

Google model delay […]

OMG this french found fonts/letter-shapes site https://vernacular.fr/ — via Matt Muir’s Web Curios. I’m in love and also why am I not camping in the french countryside rn, what is wrong with me

Feeling a powerful desire to curate a set of my favorite collages people have made in that clipart.studio tool https://clipart.studio/gallery

the gallery wall — clipart studio

A public wall of magazine collages made in clipart studio.

clipart.studio

hmm, this is really something from the new Kimi - a new web design winner that’s an open model.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@arnicas/116923374876133698 Newsletter link https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-805-a-cocktail-party-of-links?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

arnicas@arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · last mo.

I made a little telephone game set at a cocktail party with machine translation between the international guests... in the top of my latest newsletter with some details and also here: https://www.ghostweather.com/apps/cocktail-party/

I made a little telephone game set at a cocktail party with machine translation between the international guests... in the top of my latest newsletter with some details and also here: https://www.ghostweather.com/apps/cocktail-party/

Latest newsletter - lots of AI & Fiction research of note, some AI video award winners, Krea 2 LoRAs, three.js and procgen landscapes, games links mixed bag, web fun, etc. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-80-fitting-a-hot-manifold?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Monday's newsletter covered Fable's Three.js codebases and examples, Reve 2 and Ideogram 4, Omni from Goog (briefly), a bunch of papers / articles / a tool re narrative generation & datasets, a sprinkle of weird / procgen web, poetics, tools. Collages […]

End of month post with 3 exhibitions in Paris right now - Cartes Imaginaire, Hilma af Klint, and Leonora Carrington. Then brief AI / games / narrative / ds links of interest. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-79-lynn-vs-paris-museums?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Little faery tale about worker fairies in my newsletter mid-month, among other weird links, especially weird LLM behavior, weird science, and the usual interesting AI espec. 3d via agents […]

Latest newsletter update - lots of continued web game dev, more splats and 360ies, narrative, game, 3d! Vis of Aaron Reed's Subcutanean procgen novel. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-78-little-city-builders?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

A big end of the month, with a bunch of narrative generation/text-style-related links this time. Lots going on there. Plus MJ v8, Uni-1, three.js and splat news, art search engines, models of use (speech, ocr, etc), game books […]