Dynamic Subspace

Category: Science Fiction

  • Almost Done With a Sabbatical Side Project

    Anthropomorphic cat typing on a typewriter at a desk. City buildings seen in the window behind him. Image created with Stable Diffusion.

    These past two weeks, I’ve been working on a sabbatical side project. I put my primary research project on hold so that I could think about it some more before proceeding. In the meantime, I’m using generative AI to help accelerate my work on an open educational resource (OER) focused on Science Fiction (SF) that I plan to launch soon. The writing is done on the project. What I am doing now is using an large language model (LLM) that I’m running on my desktop workstation to help me with editing. I think the end product will be pretty cool, and it will be something anyone is free to use after it’s launched. Stay tuned!

  • Jurassic Park Car Wash Surprise

    When I was walking by the car wash on 7th Avenue and 20th Street in Brooklyn, this Jurassic Park themed jeep made me do a double take. Zoom in for its dino surprises on the cargo rack.

  • Cyberpunk Brain in a Box Image Created with Stable Diffusion

    These images are called Brain in a Box 1, 2, and 3. The idea behind them was a electronic-organic computer assemblage that fit into a 19″ server cabinet. The brains are modeled on my fMRI scans, and the background cabling and box perspective come from another controlnet layer using a snapshot of a networking setup with bundles of ethernet cables. The lighting details and computing element details varied based on my prompt.

    I liked how #2 seems like a universe of constellations of lights and wires beneath a transparent brain-shaped cover.

    Number 3 is the brightest of the series. Its brain combines the previous two aspects–transparency and brain folds.

  • Cyberpunk Brain Connections Image Created with Stable Diffusion

    This is another image from the series that includes this previous post. I call it Brain Connections. I made it with A1111 and controlnet configured with an image from my fMRI scan. Thinking about how generative AI systems are building up different expert combos to best respond to queries and how they are linking together different kinds of systems that handle different multimodal aspects of advanced systems (e.g., STT/speech recognition > input > generative AI > TTS > output), it reflects how many such brains will make up the generative AI systems we will be using going into the future. This is opposed to singular, monolithic AI systems depicted in films like WOPR in WarGames (1983).

  • Cyberpunk Innerspace Interface Image Made with Stable Diffusion

    Cyberpunk Innerspace Interface Image Made with Stable Diffusion.

    I call this Stable Diffusion crafted cyberpunk image, Innerspace Interface. With the introduction to multiple controlnet layers, I began creating images like the one above. I applied an image of a server farm aisle as the background, a 1790 portrait of Immanuel Kant attributed to Elisabeth von Stägemann (Anton Graff school) as the subject, and a screenshot of a 3D rotated brain model to match the orientation of Kant’s head in the portrait. In the prompt, I added the technical details, futuristic leather jacket, and feminine facial features.