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Diffusions in Architecture: Artificial Intelligence and Image Generators
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Diffusions in Architecture: Artificial Intelligence and Image Generators

by Matias del Campo, Lev Manovich
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 38m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Diffusions in Architecture: Artificial Intelligence and Image Generators

An Artificial Tale

Ryan Vincent Manning

The first artificial intelligence (AIs), the artificial precursors, appeared here and there via small exclusive groups, where they attracted academics, game enthusiasts, and artists. The pixel‐to‐pixel and image transfers, witnessed only by a handful of outsiders, were dismissed as computational follies. Even early news reports did not quite know what tone to take, shifting reluctantly from technical descriptions to ironic jests with armored skepticism. Processing power was restricted due to a lack of universal blockchain and optical schematics. Databases requiring large amounts of data only producing moderate results, were limited to research grants and aerospace institutes. The do‐it‐yourself databases were hampered by their size, as generating sufficient data was a laborious task. Web scraping, a method of data collection, whirled around misuse of data, such as polarized politics contorting Pokémon morphologies. One could only collect so many planes, trains, and automobiles before the pot would run dry. Practitioners could gather data only in the thousands, while millions were needed.

At this time, according to Sir Rehms, AIs were more widespread than initially believed. The relentless tides of capitalism, neo‐liberal‐accelerated science, gradually smacked us with their proverbial hand. In the first wave, lockdowns, social stops occurred. WP I or world pandemic one, as we call it today. The draining social aptitude propelled attentions ...

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