In this episode, artist and programmer Gene Kogan joins us to talk about new AI-Generated Art and how AI assistants are going to provide us with interfaces to maximize our creativity. Gene is interested in advancing scientific literacy through creativity and play, and building educational spaces which are as open and accessible as possible. Currently, he is leading an open project to create an autonomous artificial artist. We dive deep into different generative AI interfaces such as Dall-E, Midjourney and Abraham the one he is currently working on, other generative models, how to create open-source systems and how they connect to collective intelligence and the environmental niches that AI is going to evolve into. AI assistants progressively are going to become part of our lives. If you are interested in the future of AI, and the environmental niches that it is going to evolve into, Stay tuned! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/PDAPkhNxrC Who is Gene Kogan? Gene is an artist and programmer with interests in generative art, collective intelligence, autonomous systems, and computer science. He is a collaborator within numerous open-source software projects, and gives workshops and lectures on topics at the intersection of code and art. Topics: Welcome Gene Kogan to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00) Goal of this episode for listeners: (00:01:29) Catalyzing moment in childhood that set off curiosity about the world: (00:01:53) What are the next steps with ai in terms of art: (00:04:27) AI generative music & what evolutionary nische will music fall into: (00:08:38) Abraham vs. Dall-E & Midjourney: (00:10:57) What should this autonomous artist agent do or look like in the next 50 years?: (00:12:49) What would make it more autonomous?: (00:17:33) General thoughts about the future of AI assistance: (00:20:44) AI inputters or do we as people need to learn how to be centaurs in better ways: (00:23:31) A new third replicator: are these new computer memes these kemes? : (00:28:35) Other niches that AI is likely to evolve into?: (00:33:32) How these different models work: (00:37:44) Dalle-E & GANs overrated or underrated: (00:40:58) Wrap-up: (00:43:16) Mentioned resources: Dall-E: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DALL-E Midjourney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney Primaver De Filippi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_De_Filippi AARON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARON All You Need to Know About Coexisting With Living Robots: Dr. Joshua Bongard & Dr. Michael Levin (The Rhys Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mkC9nGAos0 Gene’s avatars: Mars College: https://mars.college/ BrainDrops: https://braindrops.cloud/ Machine Learning for art (ml4a): https://ml4a.net/ Abraham.ai: https://abraham.ai/ Connect with Gene Kogan: Twitter: https://twitter.com/genekogan Web: https://genekogan.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ekogan19 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genekogan/ GitHub: https://github.com/genekogan Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/genekogan Medium: https://www.medium.com/@genekogan Tumblr: https://electricdosa.tumblr.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genekogan1