Paul Catanese

Gonna need 12

Code comment: more coffee, Matt

Munch Museum

And I’m not talking about ‘birds’ - I’m talking about birds - this all went down before all that other sh*t went down.

If you zoom way in, you’ll see Connery did it all with two birds in his left hand

Look to see if they have a subscription; I think the latest bush bird bags and the zero-fault bags are the same price if you’re a member.

Assuming that <class bird> has been instantiated, and that bush-bag-loop is running and (crucially) this is neither an imaginary class nor a bird-within-bird recursive error - then yes, you will have several more hands worth of ‘birds’. Do not pay the contractor.

Oh, sure… again with ‘birds’

Recently published from British Council: "Why Technology Needs Artists: 40 International Perspectives" @britisharts.bsky.social - Interviews and Essays from Jasia Reichardt, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Morehshin Allahyari, Rebecca Allen, Sougwen Chung, Xu Bing - the hits truly go on and on!

Prompt Magic? See what you want.

You're spot-on about the reinforcement of stereotypical ideas about art and knee-jerk positions (e.g. AI cheerleading, moral outrage, old-fashioned denial, etc.) Your comment about AI for criticism / seeking other perspectives is great & succinct. Wish there was more time in the format to hear more!

Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!

Yes! And normalized()

Don’t they already sell a wooden box with a single knob that doesn’t have any power for three times that?

Pianists don’t “play” the piano, there’s a little guy in there.

Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon

Sometimes you talk to a New York Times reporter for forty minutes and don’t end up in the article, but I’m still happy to have offered some background for Cade Metz in this assessment of AGI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Gonna catch up with VR

Battle chickens are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are ancient so this checks out

Chicken crotales or veggie crotales?

Sharing print from project: "Gli infiniti di Bruno" - Fictional evidence of a fictional opera derived from fictional scenarios in life of Giordano Bruno unsuspectingly engaging with artificial intelligence(s), sentient hyperobjects, and plural nonhumans.

More info:
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jennkarson.studio #OwnYourDataset

Jenn Karson at the University of Vermont has a project working with a dataset of leaves that were partially consumed by gypsy moth caterpillars. jennkarson.studio

I hear you there - this is my first time back in six years!

Thrilled to share I’m co-chairing a roundtable at #CAA113 in NYC next week w/Mat Rappaport. Our session, AI in Art: Practices, Processes, Doubts, and Revelations w/Barbara Rauch (OCAD) and Jenn Karson (UVM) is sure to be a great time! If you’re going to CAA, please stop by and join the conversation!

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

specifically: Thinking about "Eclipse" (commissioned by ASPU Terminal 2015) as seed for a long-form generative NFT in fx(hash) What do you think? Have you done anything like this? - or seen any exemplary long form generative NFT? Would love to hear from you! 😀
www.paulcatanese.com/experiments/...

I'd be curious to hear from folks who have worked with fx(hash). I've been thinking about releasing an updated version of an early generative art project I created 10+ years ago, and would love to hear from folks in a similar situation-

Latent L-systems: Transformer-based Tree Generator | ACM Transactions on Graphics We show how a Transformer can encode hierarchical tree-like string structures by introducing a new deep learning-based framework for generating 3D biological tree models represented as Lindenmayer sys...

thought this was an interesting research paper looking into how transformer models can be used to generate l-systems; especially w/how they are unpacking recursion. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...