Check this explanation from Karpathy which provides really good intuition https://youtu.be/9uw3F6rndnA

Basically tokens “talk” to each other and say this is what i have and this is what i look for.

Your summary of this is very good. It’s a really simple and intuitive way to express something very complex.

Very cool, in 100 years these works will be equivalent to Picasso etc.

As as side project I actually started online AI art gallery called Art Supreme. If you like please check it out: https://www.art-supreme.com or instagram https://www.instagram.com/ai_art_supreme/

doubt it, it really depends on how the public is moved by this form of creation

not necessarily the level of discipline involved, but the lack of discipline necessary and low barrier of entry will ensure that the public is not interested in discerning value to these works

there will only be some personalities that the public gathers around

Exactly, there will be only some personalities or brands that the public gathers around.

Its quite a niche, but actually I believe that I am one of the leaders in this space (for 1.5 years already)

The scandal will be finding out that some big time artist was actually just copying works from a custom trained AI.

The scandal will not be that they copied, but because they lied about it, though.

Folks already copy things made with photo editing software and filters. It generally isn't a big deal.

I am creating and publishing AI art at https://art-supreme.com/

The market for AI is relatively small but I would consider to be at the top given the community that formed around it.

I am running na online art gallery specializing in AI art. Recently, instead of just printing the art on canvas I started using even real robots to paint it down [1]. Still it is only a small passive income but looking forward to make it really big as I believe this thing is a historic moment in time where art and tech started to converge into one.

1) https://art-supreme.com/ai-art-with-robotic-arm/

This is pretty cool, How much sales do you usually get? You have any marketing channels?

Well, the space ai art space is getting pretty competitive. I have seen many people starting and then quitting these kind of projects because they approached it purely from the money side. I make only few sales every couple of months and so far it is mostly coming from social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram) or word of mouth channels. I am targeting high end of the market so that is fine by me and also ready to play this for the long term as I wholeheartedly believe this is an monumental moment in art history. These kind of artworks are going to be worth a ton of money in 20-30 years when we get super AI.

I'm in the same space as the founder of NightCafe Creator [1]. It's been running at a (substantial) loss for the last year until September which was my first break even month. I'm hoping to turn it around and have made great strides so far. The biggest expense (95%) is GPU compute time. It runs on Algorithmia which was super convenient to get up and running with, but is now very expensive. Switching compute providers is a big opportunity. Unfortunately I suck at devops.

1. https://creator.nightcafe.studio

I'm guess most of your revenue is coming from the prints/merchandise? Do they tend to make they're own or buy a premade one?

thanks for sharing!

very cool. Can I suggest you add a mail list feature to collect emails? I very much want to stay connected with you guys and get your latest news.

Thanks for the support! I haven’t thought about mailing lists so far. However, I am posting artworks regularly on social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram). Do you think mailing lists would make sense as I am mostly sharing the artworks and not so much the news content?

Following you on IG now. I just wanted a medium where your site and it's art work would bubble up on occasion since I'm not always buying artwork. I think IG is perfect considering you just share art work. Perhaps promoting the IG channel more on the website would help?

A mailing list is nice because you're actually collecting emails and can use them somehow in the future. You could collect emails and then send users a welcome email that also promotes your IG channel. It just wasn't obvious you have an IG channel. Hopefully this is helpful.

There is also quite interesting website http://www.art-supreme.com which claims to be the world's first AI gallery.

canceled?

Temporarily for weather, not for technical issues.

Not really. Postponed for Saturday due to concerns about bad weather.

Its a pitty, I just started watching live and see that the astronauts already have boarded. Yeah, its a pitty, but at least can watch the whole procedure again on Saturday.

Can you expand a bit more how did you get burned with it? Did you had some issues because Swagger changed the usage of some keywords from Json Schema?

we where using swagger to manage both API's and schemas, and also extracting schema files to validate the results of api calls, validate the structure of records in mongodb. When swagger dropped json-schema compliance we lost that ability.

Did you try using JSON Hyper Schema for defining APIs maybe?

Awesome!

First and foremost it is the composition. Or in other words a service that could segment professional photos from the amateur ones.

Depends, It is easier to switch from Java to Python than the other way around. Java is mostly used in big companies while Python is used in StartUps.

The best would be of course if you have courses which teach both of these languages.

That's the thing, we had a very early introduction to java. This course is 50% learning the quirks of java. Even Rails would be better in my opinion...