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Kevin is joined by Justin Trimble and Gene Kogan, co-creators of BrainDrops, a new platform for AI-generated art. Here, they discuss the ever-increasing importance of NFT discovery platforms as staggering quantities of new content roll out daily, how BrainDrops could become the Art Blocks for AI-generated art, new developments in GAN and text-to-image AI, and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
- Learn More About BrainDrops: Website | Twitter | Discord | OpenSea
- Connect with Justin Trimble at Twitter
- Connect with Gene Kogan at Twitter
- Quantum Art
- Art Blocks – Generative NFT Art with Erick Snowfro | Modern Finance
- CryptoPunks – The NFTs That Started It All. Their Origin Story and Future Plans | Modern Finance
- Generative Art and NFTs | ARTnews
- Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro | Art Blocks
- Sourcetone | Crunchbase
- Generative Adversarial Network | Wikipedia
- Open to Everyone | Ethereum
- Machine Learning for Arts | ml4a.net
- DeepDream | Wikipedia
- Algorithm Creator Has Beef with AI Art Sold at Christie’s for $432,500 | Fortune
- Attention-GAN for Object Transfiguration in Wild Images | EECV 2018
- DALL·E: Creating Images from Text | Open AI
- CLIP: Connecting Text and Images | Open AI
- AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools | Vice
- GPT-3 Powers the Next Generation of Apps | OpenAI
- Text To Image API | DeepAI
- The Clever Way Netflix’s Recommendation Algorithm Keeps Viewers Addicted | BGR
- podGANS by Pindar Van Arman | BrainDrops
- Artist Spotlight: Pindar Van Arman and His AI Canvas Painting Robots | PROOF
- Genesis by Claire Silver | BrainDrops
- Brain Loops by Gene Kogan | BrainDrops
- Extend Your Imagination | Artbreeder
- An Artist in the Cloud | Abraham
- NFT Access Lists, Simplified | Premint
- The Most Powerful Real-Time 3D Creation Tool | Unreal Engine
- A Grassroots Collective of Researchers Working to Open Source AI Research | EleutherAI
SHOW NOTES
- What is BrainDrops? [00:45]
- What is the BrainDrops origin story? [01:57]
- Interesting developments and the people responsible for them in the early GAN (generative adversarial network) space that caught Gene's attention when he first got involved in the scene. [08:25]
- How has text-to-image AI come to prominence in just the past year, and what can we expect from this technology in the very near future? [10:48]
- How does text-to-image AI actually work? [13:09]
- Why might an artist want to use text to create artwork versus training an AI with their own data sets of images? What practical applications could this technology serve to a wider creative community? [14:59]
- What is BrainDrops' vision? What kind of community does it hope to attract? [19:45]
- What is an AI-collaborative artist? [22:30]
- How BrainDrops hopes to shine a spotlight on the diversity and possibilities of AI-generative art. [23:45]
- What is abraham.ai? [25:37]
- Three categories of AI-generated art. [29:22]
- What can someone expect to pay for an initial drop, and how can people participate? [30:55]
- A reminder that this is still early days in the NFT space. [36:00]
- AI artists Gene and Justin are keeping an eye on, and how they see the artists' processes evolving along with their tools over the next few years. [37:34]
- Where listeners can find out more about BrainDrops and other parting thoughts. [43:42]