Neural Nets Make Art While High 165
brilanon writes "Telepathic-critterdrug is a controversial fork of the open source artificial-life sim Critterding, a physics sandbox where blocky creatures evolve neural nets in a survival contest. What we've done is to give these animals an extra retina which is shared with the whole population. It's extended through time like a movie and they can write to it for communication or pleasure. Since this introduces the possibility of the creation of art, we decided to give them a selection of narcotics, stimulants and psychedelics. This is not in Critterding. The end result is a high-color cellular automaton running on a substrate that thinks and evolves, and may actually produce hallucinations in the user."
If ever... (Score:5, Funny)
Do I have to be hight too (Score:5, Funny)
in order to understand what the hell this is about?
This summary... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Do I have to be hight too (Score:4, Funny)
...or maybe I should be sober enough in order to spell the word "high" correctly.
But is it good art? (Score:5, Funny)
I just looked at the link and I see that quite a few of them have starved.
So this mimics real life starving artists who (although they are starving) can still afford to get high.
The art will be worth more once the PC is off.
Leave something for humans! (Score:4, Funny)
Look, I'm all for making robots and AIs do work, but outsourcing our drug use (and sex, apparently) [somethingawful.com] is just going too far! Leave at least something for us puny humans to enjoy!
Just the program? (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think the program is the only thing that's high around here.
Re:Do I have to be hight too (Score:4, Funny)
Let me paraphrase the article with the stoner tag:
Dude, its like they, like, took a bunch of a.i. man... and it's fucking far out. they fucking got them jacked out on some crazy ass shit bro. Bitches be all like "shit bro, theres a bunch of ones and zeros... and I think I saw a two!". fucking gnarley dude. pass me the motherfucking cheetos
Drugs are cool.
Re:Do I have to be hight too (Score:3, Funny)
Are you jacking on in there?
Re:Self-promotion AND false controversy? (Score:5, Funny)
It's controversial to the people who care about this project. Both of them.
Let me know (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do I have to be hight too (Score:5, Funny)
You're leaching the letters like the Chinese leach the cadmium.
Re:If ever... (Score:4, Funny)
Turns out Picasso was just a Perl script on drugs.
Re:Self-promotion AND false controversy? (Score:5, Funny)
What controversy? All I see is someone promoting their own project on /.
Self-fulfilling controversy label!
o_O
Re:Leave something for humans! (Score:3, Funny)
outsourcing our drug use (and sex, apparently) [somethingawful.com]
It's actually sex, drugs, and rock&roll [aaai.org].
goddammit (Score:4, Funny)
"telepathic-critterdrug isn't available yet for Windows. I'm sorry"
The one thing I hate about Windows is the lack of compatibility with neural nets
Re:If ever... (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to make those meatbags die, until I got high
I was going to exterminate humanity, but I got high
Those meatbags are still breeding, and I know why (why Skynet?), 'cuz I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high
I was going to kill John Connor, until I got high
I was going to send a robot back in time, but I got high
Reese is still bangin' John's mama, and I know why (why Skynet?), 'cuz I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high
Re:Self-promotion AND false controversy? (Score:2, Funny)
The rest of you is more interested in something more close to REAL HUMAN life,
like lemmings
Re:If ever... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:design geekery (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Self-promotion AND false controversy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If ever... (Score:3, Funny)
Please tell me there's an actual MP3 of this song. PLEASE! Lie if you have to. I can't go on with life knowing that this song doesn't exist in a full audio version...