Pictures, Pictures, Pictures....

[poliphilo]

 HotPot Ai has over fifty algorithms to choose from. Nightcafe has nearly as many. I have my favourites but I've been trying out some of the others. You never know....

I'm no longer quite a novice at this game.

I am picking up skills. And yes, there are skills involved. You don't just make a prompt and push a button. You work with AI and it works with you. Sometimes it's awfully contrary. Sometimes it's an obliging and challenging collaborator.

People who work with machines usually end up personifying them- and attributing intelligence to them. A ship is always she, not it. Swords have names. Same sort of thing with trains and cars and planes and computers and all kinds of tools.

And this isn't mere superstition. A machine is never just a machine. It has been made by Mind and is Mind- because nothing exists apart from Mind. Mind or Consciousness are words for All That Is. (Some prefer the word "God" but I don't.)  Matter is just Mind slowed down and made into shapes.

The machine exists at a Meeting of Minds.

And all minds are One Mind. 

So indulge me. AI art is art. Proper art. There are skills. There is Mind. What more do can you ask for?

Anyway, some entries in the Picture-Diary

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1. Among The Stones

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2. That Is The Land Of Lost Content



3. Demagogue


 

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[cmcmck]

And the land of lost content is, of course, where we live.

That's nowhere near green enough.

[poliphilo]

I know that poem by heart.

That's one of the things about Houseman: he's very easy to learn by heart....

[cmcmck]

'And now the Roman and his troubles are buried under Uricon' (About four miles from where we live).

[poliphilo]

Been there!


Also paid my respects to Houseman's own ashes in their flowerbed in Ludlow

[cmcmck]

Something one has to do! Ludlow's a favourite place of ours.