AI Generated Art (Journal Club Presentation)
Channel: Sam Sartor
Date: 09/10/2022

This is a presentation I gave on October 6th 2022 at the William & Mary Graduate Student Association's weekly Journal Club.

I talk about the past, present, and future of computers spitting out pretty pictures. Specifically how computers generate art and the extent to which this is an extension of human creativity. This includes recent AI projects like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but also more traditionally generated art: fractals, minecraft worlds, and the "wave function collapse" algorithm.

Demo Links:
- There are countless ways to run Stable Diffusion for free. For this presentation I set up https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.
- lexica.art is an archive of previously made AI art and the corresponding prompts.
- dreamfusion3d.github.io uses Stable Diffusion to make 3D art.
- https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper is an online demo of the Townscaper game.