Running stable diffusion img2img back over itself with new prompts — Drawing games are great for creative collaboration, surprises, and just giggling. What it would be like to play a drawing game with AI? Telephone pictionary is an example of a drawing game. It’s like the game telephone except you alternate between a drawing and a description of a drawing. So…

Seeing what happens when you keep the input image constant and vary the prompts — I was curious what would happen if I kept the same input image, and varied the prompt. This is following from the earlier exploration varying the strength with the same input image. You can see that here: Using doodles and diffusers to expand your imagination Exploring stable diffusion’s img2img transformation with a colab notebookwhichlight.medium.com

Building an AI chat app to support my awareness practice — I was feeling restless and wondered what it’d be like to have an AI chat prompt me in a way that directs my attention, stabalizing it, in a meditative way. Here I take a possible “script” I go through when I meditate, and bring that to a chat experience. It’s fascinating to see how sensations transform during the course of the chat. It makes me think of counting exercises to relax the mind before meditating.

Exploring stable diffusion’s img2img transformation with a colab notebook — What if I could turn doodles into photorealistic things? What if I could draw an apple slightly warped and then it turns into a photorealistic one, slightly warped? That’s the inquiry that got me into playing with doodles and diffusers for image transformations. …

Step by step guide making a GPT-3 AI chat — Generative AI is all the hype now, and for good reason. It’s fascinating, and once you start using it, it’ll feel like magic. In this post I’ll go step by step and share some code on building your own generative AI chat app. Specifically, we’ll make a gratitude chat app…

A few chats with this AI tool I made — I’m working on this creative coach chat AI tool because I found myself having trouble getting started with projects or figuring out how to keep things moving. I wanted to come up with something using a generative AI tool that would be immediately useful for me. I’ve used it for…

Getting started making AI apps with fast.ai — I’m currently taking a course from fast.ai and came across an idea that kind of blew my mind: transfer learning. Back in the early 2010s, I was a researcher and looking into machine learning models. At that time, it seemed that creating meaningful applications with machine learning required powerful computers…

After five years, Friday was my last day at Medium. I’m going to take a break and let my mind wander for a bit. I don’t think I’ve taken a break much longer than two weeks since 2009. I’m looking forward to this. I appreciate all I’ve learned from my…

The best comment was a tattoo of the story. Actually, numerous tattoos of the story, from people I've never met. Years ago I tried out a story format of pairing an illustration with a short essay going deeper into the ideas behind it. I didn't get much engagement from the…