Elias Ruokanen

Holy hell, amazing!

Dreams, memories and spasms floating above the river of time. Music and graphics by me (video clips are from early 90's commercials). #digitalart #artsky #newmedia #touchdesigner #nostalgiasky

A picture of Anderson Cooper and 2 white old guys. "this looks like a scientist explaining to his clones what went wrong"

I'm sure the use cases for AI will be found, but what is the rush? I guess managers really believe it's a "10x FORCE MULTIPLIER", but what happens when that falls apart and you're left with a bag of "it works sometimes for some situations". This doesn't sound like a good business strategy.

It's in other industries too. Slices of budgets are put into "incorporating AI", but the use cases are largely very vague or trivial. Nobody wants to fall off the train but no one knows where it's going or if it's even moving, but money get shoved into the engine anyway.

#procreate #digitalart #digitalpainting

Simpsons screenshot. Milhouse: "Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form."

This scene but Milhouse is a billion dollar gpu cluster

This has the feel of a press conference by a newly formed supergroup of 90's era musicians and how their album will change everything.

Similar vibes

I think it was even worse. He said people are caterpillars who extract "nuggets of understanding." The butterfly is GPT4. So essentially people/bodies are slugs and disembodied mathematical constructs (the mind for these kinds of computationalists) are angels.

Oil sketch
#art #oilpainting

Also, "context-aware" = surveillance camera that's on all the time

Computers Schmomputers Why I find computationalism a hard pill to swallow. AI hype has reached astronomical proportions. It is not enough to state that artificial intelligence is a technology that is reshaping society. It i...

Read my take on why conscious AI is shoddy philosophy:

"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."

ruok.art/Computers-Sc...

"Such a lonely day should be banned. It's a day that I can't stand."

What is his plan after this? Golden parachute? There's no way these people will be taken seriously after the bubble bursts.

Thumbnail is a work of art

Maybe some cultural things don't translate well? The Eastern/Nordic European tropes and atmosphere, it's making fun of itself and the mindset of those cultures all the time, but that might come off as dumb/tacky/exaggerated/pretentious unless you've lived it.

Good vibes only
#art #oilpainting

If you see this, post a witch!

Information is also venerated as existing separate from people. A personality is just a pesky filter getting in the way of information and has no role or value of its own. People don't exist, only information does. Although if these types committed fully, they would consider themselves worthless too

This is the problem with AI belief too, that an arrangement of bits has some platonic form. The same bits can crash a car or play weird janky music. At best we can create proxies of our own interpretations.

YouTube video by Watts Atelier of the Arts New Student Orientation - Watts Atelier of the Arts

Or this one, don't remember, both are great :D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NIv...

YouTube video by Watts Atelier of the Arts How to Train to Become a Successful Working Artist

This is a great lecture on the subject www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0M...

I had a two-year break like 10 years ago. It did at least teach me not to do that again, no matter the circumstances :D Also I find that sometimes my brain derps out for a while even if I haven't taken a break. Usually when I'm oversaturated with art and my brain needs to simmer for a while.

I find it's a linear relationship. If I don't draw for a week, it takes a week to get back where I was. Once had a two month break because of life stuff, took two months to get back. So I lost four months. Over time it's gotten faster to get back, but not that much.

Transparent rim glasses = dead giveaway

Figure sketch

#art #oilpainting #figure #nsfw

Another Way
Oil on gessobord

"For years I searched, for I knew my visions to be true"

Might still fix a few small things, but getting burned out on this one. Went for a Magic: The Gathering vibe, those cards have been an inspiration since kindergarten.

#oilpainting #fantasyart #art #landscape

And with prompting (not to mention to biased training) you can guide it to give the answer you want anyway. This is handy, since you are now equipped with the confidence that an expensive and powerful AI system affirms your worldview, and you can offload the responsibility of your actions to it.

Civ 3 + Civ 4 = Civ 7: Gandhi's Revenge