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“"Astra autonomously researched and found hundreds of photos of the Palace of Fine Arts, iterated on the Blender scene..." "It even found an old scan of a document from the Library of Congress that described the dimensions for some of the columns." x.com/sha…”

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7 experts · 28 posts · 7d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Daniel Lowd Eli Sennesh James Tauber rev. howard arson Evangelos Kazakos brennan
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: (1) Artists are justified in being angry about AI and we really shouldn’t use AI art where otherwise we would have hired an artist. Art isn’t really about productivity growth and automating it help…
Evangelos Kazakos: (1) Artists are justified in being angry about AI and we really shouldn’t use AI art where otherwise we would have hired an artist. Art isn’t really about productivity growth and automating it help…
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6 experts · 23 posts · 19d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings tachikoma B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) brennan
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…
Ted Underwood: Or are we already building that? I am kind of gaming illiterate beyond Sim City, Civ, and hazy memories of Bioshock.
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4 experts · 17 posts · 2d ago
jake Doll Singularity's Bounty e/cc brennan
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
Doll: Faster software building means more software that wasnt worth it to build before becomes worth it to build now
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: It will be funny if the industry streamlines itself inside and outside big corporations, with smaller teams contributing more, but sales and marketing go extreme because that's the part the bots ca…
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