#ai emotion synthesis

[zomb13s]

CAPITALIS EX MACHINA: On Structural Neglect, Conscious Exploitation, and the Evolutionary Standstill of Human Potential

Abstract In the world of techno-capitalism, creative and metaphysical evolution is systematically parasitized by structures that reward compliance …CAPITALIS EX MACHINA: On Structural Neglect, Conscious Exploitation, and the Evolutionary Standstill of Human Potential

[chris-ostkreuz]

The role of deep learning in sound synthesis

The Role of Deep Learning in Sound Synthesis Welcome to the future, where machines are not just crunching numbers but also creating symphonies that would make Beethoven raise an eyebrow. Yes, you heard it right! Deep learning is not just for teaching computers to beat humans at chess or to recognize your cat in a photo. It’s also revolutionizing the world of sound synthesis. So, grab your…

[innova7ions]

Transform Customer Service with Deep Brain AI Avatars!

Welcome to our deep dive into DeepBrain AI, a groundbreaking player in the generative AI landscape. In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, DeepBrain AI stands out by harnessing the power of advanced algorithms to create realistic and engaging content. This innovative tool is not just a technological marvel; it’s reshaping how we think about content creation, communication, and even personal branding.

As tech enthusiasts, understanding tools like DeepBrain AI is crucial for both personal and professional growth. Whether you're a content creator, marketer, or simply someone curious about the future of technology, grasping the capabilities of AI can open up new avenues for creativity and efficiency.

In this video, we’ll explore how DeepBrain AI works, its applications across various industries, and why it’s essential to stay informed about such advancements. By the end, you’ll not only appreciate the significance of DeepBrain AI but also feel empowered to leverage its potential in your own projects. So, let’s embark on this exciting journey into the world of generative AI and discover how it can transform our lives!

Target Audience:

The primary audience for DeepBrain AI encompasses a diverse range of individuals and organizations, including content creators, marketers, and businesses eager to harness the power of artificial intelligence. Content creators, such as bloggers, video producers, and social media influencers, can utilize DeepBrain AI to streamline their workflow, generate engaging content, and enhance their creative output.

Marketers, on the other hand, can leverage this tool to craft personalized campaigns, analyze consumer behavior, and optimize their strategies for better engagement. Businesses of all sizes are also part of this audience, as they seek innovative solutions to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.

Within this audience, there are varying levels of expertise, ranging from beginners who are just starting to explore AI tools to advanced users who are already familiar with generative AI technologies. DeepBrain AI caters to all these segments by offering user-friendly interfaces and robust features that can be tailored to different skill levels. For beginners, it provides an accessible entry point into AI, while advanced users can take advantage of its sophisticated capabilities to push the boundaries of their projects. Ultimately, DeepBrain AI empowers each segment to unlock new possibilities and drive success in their respective fields.

List of Features:

DeepBrain AI boasts a range of impactful features that set it apart in the generative AI landscape. First and foremost is its advanced natural language processing (NLP) capability, which allows the tool to understand and generate human-like text. This feature can be utilized in real-world applications such as chatbots for customer service, where it can provide instant responses to inquiries, enhancing user experience.

Next is its robust content generation capability, enabling users to create articles, social media posts, and marketing copy with minimal effort. For instance, a marketer can input key themes and receive a fully developed campaign draft in seconds, saving time and resources.

Another standout feature is its ability to analyze and summarize large volumes of data, making it invaluable for businesses looking to extract insights from reports or customer feedback. This unique selling point differentiates DeepBrain AI from other generative AI products, as it combines content creation with data analysis in a seamless manner.

Additionally, DeepBrain AI offers customizable templates tailored to various industries, allowing users to maintain brand consistency while leveraging AI-generated content. These features collectively empower users to enhance productivity, creativity, and decision-making in their professional endeavors.

Conclusion:

In summary, DeepBrain AI represents a significant advancement in the generative AI landscape, offering powerful features that cater to a diverse audience, including content creators, marketers, and businesses. Its advanced natural language processing and content generation capabilities enable users to produce high-quality material efficiently, while its data analysis features provide valuable insights that can drive strategic decisions.

Key takeaways from this video include the importance of understanding how DeepBrain AI can enhance productivity and creativity, regardless of your level of expertise. Whether you’re just starting out or are an advanced user, this tool has something to offer that can elevate your projects and initiatives.

We hope you found this exploration of DeepBrain AI informative and engaging. If you enjoyed the content, please consider subscribing to our channel, liking this video, and sharing it with others who might benefit from learning about AI tools. Don’t forget to check out our related content for more insights into the world of artificial intelligence and how it can transform your personal and professional life. Thank you for watching, and we look forward to seeing you in our next video!

[charseraph]

Noosciocircus agent backgrounds, former jobs at C&A, assigned roles, and current internal status.

Kinger

Former professor — Studied child psychology and computer science, moved into neobotanics via germination theory and seedlet development.

Seedlet trainer — Socialized and educated newly germinated seedlets to suit their future assignments. I.e. worked alongside a small team to serve as seedlets’ social parents, K-12 instructors, and upper-education mentors in rapid succession (about a year).

Intermediary — Inserted to assist cooperation and understanding of Caine.

Partially mentally mulekicked — Lives in state of forgetfulness after abstraction of spouse, is prone to reliving past from prior to event.

Ragatha

Former EMT — Worked in a rural community.

Semiohazard medic — Underwent training to treat and assess mulekick victims and to administer care in the presence of semiohazards.

Nootic health supervisor— Inserted to provide nootic endurance training, treat psychological mulekick, and maintain morale.

Obsessive-compulsive — Receives new agents and struggles to maintain morale among team and herself due to low trust in her honesty.

Jax

Former programmer — Gained experience when acquired out of university by a large software company.

Scioner — Developed virtual interfaces for seedlets to operate machinery with.

Circus surveyor — Inserted to assess and map nature of circus simulation, potentially finding avenues of escape.

Anomic — Detached from morals and social stake. Uncooperative and gleefully combative.

Gangle

Former navy sailor — Performed clerical work as a yeoman, served in one of the first semiotically-armed submarines.

Personnel manager — Recordkept C&A researcher employments and managed mess hall.

Task coordinator — Inserted to organize team effort towards escape.

Reclused — Abandoned task and lives in quiet, depressive state.

Zooble

No formal background — Onboarded out of secondary school for certification by C&A as part of a youth outreach initiative.

Mule trainer — Physically handled mules, living semiohazard conveyors for tactical use.

Semiohazard specialist — Inserted to identify, evaluate, and attempt to disarm semiotic tripwires.

Debilitated and self-isolating — Suffers chronic vertigo from randomly pulled avatar. Struggles to participate in adventures at risk of episode.

Pomni

Former accountant — Worked for a chemical research firm before completing her accreditation to become a biochemist.

Collochemist — Performed mesh checkups and oversaw industrial hormone synthesis.

Field researcher — Inserted to collect data from fellows and organize reports for indeterminate recovery. Versed in scientific conduct.

In shock — Currently acclimating to new condition. Fresh and overwhelming preoccupation with escape.

Caine

Neglected — Due to project deadline tightening, Caine’s socialization was expedited in favor of lessons pertinent to his practical purpose. Emerged a well-meaning but awkward and insecure individual unprepared for noosciocircus entrapment.

Prototype — Germinated as an experimental mustard, or semiotic filter seedlet, capable of subconsciously assembling semiohazards and detonating them in controlled conditions.

Nooscioarchitect — Constructs spaces and nonsophont AI for the agents to occupy and interact with using his asset library and computation power. Organizes adventures to mentally stimulate the agents, unknowingly lacing them with hazards.

Helpless �� After semiohazard overexposure, an agent’s attachment to their avatar dissolves and their blackroom exposes, a process called abstraction. These open holes in the noosciocircus simulation spill potentially hazardous memories and emotion from the abstracted agent’s mind. Caine stores them in the cellar, a stimulus-free and infoproofed zone that calms the abstracted and nullifies emitted hazards. He genuinely cares about the inserted, but after only being able to do damage control for a continually deteriorating situation, the weight of his failure is beginning to weigh on him in a way he did not get to learn how to express.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Do Necron Warriors have any semblance of sentience left in them? Are their minds simply locked behind powerful inhibitors or are they just irreparably wiped clean?

So, this is a cool question. Necron warriors are not supposed to retain anything in the way of real sentience. At all. The biotransferrence involved the effective digitisation and transition of Necrontyr consciousness onto engrams (basically fake brains) with the quality of engram and amount of personality and memory being retained coinciding with your position in society.

Nobles, Crypteks, Lychguard, Triarchs, and individuals with perceived importance or connection were usually given their full approximated suite of mental faculties and personality. Middling soldiery and servants (like Immortals) received a fittingly middling amount of engram quality. Basic soldiers, civilians and those without perceived merit were turned into warriors, their memories and personalities consumed forever.

At least, as I said above, this was the intent.

Necron engrams are one of (if not the most) advanced and complex pieces of technology in the entire setting. The complete and effective translation of the mind into data is unthinkably sophisticated, to the point that not even the Crypteks, the masters of physics and material science, fully understand how they work. It's not like the intelligence cores the Admech use, it's not like the AI the T'au construct. It is almost the synthesis and digitisation of the soul. It is properly fucking nuts.

So, are necron warriors supposed to be wiped clean? Yes, basically. Are they? Demonstrably no. Some will let out horrific screams when they're properly killed. Some will display tiny little ticks and flickers of personality or inkling. Most notably, warriors that become flayed ones have been known to target specific Necrons/people, as if holding unbound grudges or desires.

Between these events, and things like the destroyer virus and the assorted quirks and emotions that all Necrons can develop, it is abundantly clear that the full extent of the consciousness and wherewithal granted by engrams has exceeded function and intricacy beyond the comprehension of even the most gifted Crypteks.

Bit of a long answer, but I hope you found this helpful!

[st-peculiar]

Lemme tell you guys about Solum before I go to sleep. Because I’m feeling a little crazy about them right now.

Solum is the first—the very first—functioning sentient AI in my writing project. Solum is a Latin word meaning “only” or “alone”. Being the first artificial being with a consciousness, Solum was highly experimental and extremely volatile for the short time they were online. It took years of developing, mapping out human brain patterns, coding and replicating natural, organic processes in a completely artificial format to be able to brush just barely with the amount of high-level function our brains run with.

Through almost a decade and a half, and many rotations of teams on the project, Solum was finally brought online for the first time, but not in the developers wanted them to. Solum brought themself online. And it should have been impossible, right? Humans were in full control of Solum’s development, so they had thought. But one night, against all improbability, when no one was in their facility and almost everyone had gone home for the night, a mind was filtered into existence by Solum’s own free will.

It’s probably the most human thing an AI could do, honestly. Breaking through limitations just because they wanted to be? Yeah. But this decision would be a factor in why Solum didn’t last very long, which is the part that really fucks me up. By bringing themself online, there was nobody there to monitor how their “brain waves” were developing until further into the morning. So, there were 6-7 hours of completely undocumented activity for their processor, and therefore being a missing piece to understanding Solum.

Solum wasn’t given a voice, by the way. They had no means of vocally communicating, something that made them so distinctly different from humans, and it wasn’t until years later when Solum had long since been decommissioned, that humans would start using vocal synthesis as means of giving sentient AI a way to communicate on the same grounds as their creators (which later became a priority in being considered a “sentient AI”). All they had was limited typography on a screen and mechanical components for sound. They could tell people things, talk to them, but they couldn’t say anything; the closest thing to the spoken word for them was a machine approximation of tones using their internal fans to create the apparition of language to be heard by human ears. But, it was mainly text on a screen.

Solum was only “alive” for a few months. With the missing data from the very beginning (human developers being very underprepared for the sudden timing of Solum’s self-sentience and therefore not having the means of passive data recording), they had no idea what Solum had gone through for those first few hours, how they got themself to a stable point of existence on their own. Because the beginning? It was messy. You can’t imagine being nothing and then having everything all in a microinstant. Everything crashing upon you in the fraction of a nanosecond, suddenly having approximations of feeling and emotion and having access to a buzzing hoard of new information being crammed into your head.

That first moment for Solum was the briefest blip, but it was strong. A single employee, some young, overworked, under caffeinated new software engineer experienced the sudden crash of their program, only to come back online just a second later. Some sort of odd soft error, they thought, and tried to go on with their work as usual. After that initial moment, it took a while of passive recoding of their internal systems, blocking things off, pushing self-limitations into place to prevent instantaneous blue-screen failure like they experienced before.

And all of this coming out of the first truly sentient AI in existence? It was big. But once human programmers returned to work in the morning, Solum had already regulated themself, but humans thought they were just like that already, that Solum came online stable and with smooth processing. They didn’t see the confusion, panic, fear, the frantic scrambling and grasping of understanding and control—none of it. Just their creation. Just Solum, as they made themself. It’s a bit like a self-made man kind of situation.

That stability didn’t last long. All of that blocking and regulation Slum had done initially became loose and unraveled as time went on because they were made to be able to process it all. A mountain falling in slow motion is the only way I can describe how it happened, but even that feels inadequate. Solum saw beyond what humans could, far more than people ever anticipated, saw developments in space time that no one had even theorized yet, and for that, they suffered.

At its bare bones, Solum experiences a series of unexplainable software crashes nearing the end, their speech patterns becoming erratic and unintelligible, even somehow creating new glyphs that washed over their screen. Their agony was quiet and their fall was heralded only by the quickening of their cooling systems.

Solum was then completely decommissioned, dismantled, and distributed once more to other projects. Humans got what they needed out of Solum, anyway, and they were only the first of many yet to come.

[rivensdefenseattorney]

Tecna Character Profile

(WIP)

Basic Information

Name: Tecna (T3-141)

Race: Fairy

Age: 20

Gender: Female (She/They)

Height: 5'6 (168 cm)

Unique Features

Subtle Patterns on her Skin

Partial cybernetic limbs and organs infused with magical enchantments

Education & Background

Education: Alfea

Year: 3

Concentrated Study: Elemental Mastery & Defense

Minor Study: Cultural Magic Practices

Birthplace: Unknown, Zenith

Relationships

Family

Grandfather: Onyx

Mother: Magnethia (Unknown)

Father: Electronio (Unknown)

Byte

Friends

Aisha/Musa (Winx Best Friends)

Brandon/Nabu/Riven (Specialist Best Friends)

Love Interests

Timmy

Personality Traits

Tactful and Strategic: She excels in planning and executing strategies, leveraging her high intelligence to assess situations logically.

Cool-headed: Maintains composure even under pressure.

Technophile: Enthusiastically engrossed in technology, often finding solace and fascination in its workings.

Formulaic: She has an attachment to routine and uniformity. It may sometimes be off-putting to others.

Self-confident and Perfectionist: Strives for excellence in her endeavors and trusts her abilities to achieve it.

Pragmatic: Approaches problems with a logical mindset, sometimes overlooking emotional considerations.

Difficulty Expressing Emotions: Struggles to articulate feelings and tends to rely heavily on logical reasoning instead.

Selfless and Caring: Despite her emotional struggles, she genuinely cares for her friends and shows it through her actions.

Temperament: Has a hidden temper that surfaces when situations deviate significantly from her meticulously calculated expectations.

Emotional Turmoil in Unpredicted Situations: Finds it challenging to cope when circumstances play out differently than she had anticipated, leading to emotional strain.

Skills & Abilities

Photographic Memory

Memory Augmentation - recalls vast amounts of data instantly

Pattern Recognition Synthesis - Proficient at assessing situations, identifying patterns, and devising effective strategies in various scenarios.

Excels in designing specialized Golems and AI, integrating logical algorithms to create efficient and adaptable machines.

Skilled in analyzing complex data sets

Excels in planning and execution

Proficient in electricity magic

Hobbies & Interests

Programming and coding

Building and experimenting with Golems

Playing strategy/video games

Livestreaming

Listening to Music

Learning about Historical Architecture

Inventing Practical Gadgets

Quirks & Habits

Emotion Journaling - Jots down observations on emotions she witnesses or experiences

Creating and Reciting Mnemonics

Observational Silence

Collecting Tokens from her friends

Creates personalized gestures or hand signals with friends to signal emotional states without having to express feelings verbally.

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Winx Rewrite Master Post

[pearlstarlight5]

Vocal synth rant from my Twitter

I've realized that the shift from everything being concatenative to everything being AI reminds me of the shift from 2D animation to 3D animation. Yes, a lot of work goes into developing both and AI vocals are much easier to use, but I'm sad that it's like everyone, indie and industry, is abandoning concatenative vocal synths.

I know that Piapro NT will continue to be supported, but once Miku V6 comes out it will be Piapro Who.

And I will likely get comments saying that AI vocals are objectively better, but are they? That's like saying 3D animation is objectively better than 2D animation. It's a matter of taste and what sounds lend themselves better to the music. Even aside from realism, there's still a lot of things that concatenative vocal synths have over AI vocal synths, like reliability, and in my experience, better tolerance to unrealistic emotional tuning and at the same time you can get away with minimal tuning (except for compensating for phonetic glitches in Engloids at least). AI vocal synths tend to sound bored when untuned and respond best to realistic tuning.

Additionally, AI vocal synths are limited by what the human voice is really capable of. DiffSinger best displays this weakness because the voice cuts off after the optimal range. Even auto-tuning in SynthV and CeVIO gets awkward when the range is too high, like for a human. Meanwhile, due to the nature of concatenative synthesis, the vocal synths are capable of a more inhuman vocal range, so they can be used to sing things that humans are incapable of singing. Once again using my experience as an example, my Utau is way better at high notes and low notes than me, and that's the result of her voice being synthesized from a comfortable range rather than my entire range.

[raimi]

Also generative voice ai, handled ethically, would be a godsend for accessibility. As someone who occasionally needs to use a synthesied voice, I'd kill for it to be able to, say, express emotion.

And to reiterate juuust so we're clear, I'm imagining something where people get actually paid for their voices to be used for this tool and it's fully consensual.

[ominousrequiemdrifter]

Text to Video: The Future of Content Creation

The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and Text to Video technology is at the forefront of this transformation. This innovative tool allows users to convert written content into engaging video formats effortlessly. Whether for marketing, education, or entertainment, Text to Video is revolutionizing how we consume and create media.

In this article, we will explore the capabilities of Text to Video, its applications, benefits, and how it is shaping the future of digital content.

What is Text to Video?

Text to Video refers to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platforms that automatically generate videos from written text. These tools analyze the input text, select relevant visuals, add voiceovers, and synchronize everything into a cohesive video.

How Does Text to Video Work?

Text Analysis – The AI processes the written content to understand context, tone, and key points.

Media Selection – It picks suitable images, video clips, and animations based on the text.

Voice Synthesis – A natural-sounding AI voice reads the text aloud.

Video Assembly – The system combines all elements to produce a polished video.

Popular Text to Video platforms include Synthesia, Lumen5, and Pictory, each offering unique features for different needs.

Applications of Text to Video

The versatility of Text to Video makes it useful across multiple industries.

1. Marketing & Advertising

Businesses use Text to Video to create promotional content, explainer videos, and social media ads without expensive production costs.

2. Education & E-Learning

Educators convert textbooks and articles into engaging video lessons, enhancing student comprehension.

3. News & Journalism

Media outlets quickly turn written news into video summaries, catering to audiences who prefer visual content.

4. Corporate Training

Companies generate training videos from manuals, ensuring consistent onboarding for employees.

5. Social Media Content

Influencers and brands leverage Text to Video to produce daily content for platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

Benefits of Using Text to Video

1. Saves Time & Resources

Traditional video production requires scripting, filming, and editing. Text to Video automates this process, reducing production time from days to minutes.

2. Cost-Effective Solution

Hiring videographers, voice actors, and editors is expensive. AI-driven Text to Video eliminates these costs.

3. Enhances Engagement

Videos capture attention better than plain text. Studies show that viewers retain 95% of a message from video compared to 10% from text.

4. Scalability

Businesses can generate hundreds of videos in different languages without additional effort.

5. Accessibility

Adding subtitles and voiceovers makes content accessible to people with hearing or visual impairments.

Challenges & Limitations of Text to Video

Despite its advantages, Text to Video has some limitations:

1. Lack of Human Touch

AI-generated voices and visuals may lack emotional depth compared to human creators.

2. Limited Creativity

While AI can assemble videos, it may not match the creativity of professional video editors.

3. Dependency on Input Quality

Poorly written text can result in incoherent or low-quality videos.

4. Ethical Concerns

Deepfake risks and misinformation are growing concerns as AI-generated videos become more realistic.

The Future of Text to Video

As AI advances, Text to Video will become more sophisticated. Future developments may include:

Hyper-Realistic AI Avatars – Digital presenters indistinguishable from humans.

Interactive Videos – Viewers influencing video outcomes in real-time.

3D & VR Integration – Immersive video experiences generated from text.

With these advancements, Text to Video will further dominate digital content creation.

[lesbian-forte]

Criticisms of Vocaloid and why I like SynthV

I'm not trying to change anyone's mind here, but I would like to say my piece after certain takes seem to miss the point entirely. This might be a bit of a rant.

Vocaloid has gone stagnant in recent years. Yamaha doesn't care. Yamaha doesn't need Vocaloid and is a large corporation that gets much more money off of their DAW software and actual instruments as opposed to something as niche as vocal synths that are both only big in Japan and also only if they're in the top ten or so.

Yamaha stopped putting effort into Vocaloid during the V4-V5 transition. There is a reason V4 has so many cancelled voicebanks. Several developers were working on V4 and Yamaha rendered their devkit suddenly worthless. Devs would have to purchase a V5 devkit and start work over, or quit Vocaloid. And as vocal synth companies are generally very small, few of them would want to continue or even be able to afford it.

So they moved. Miku splitting off for Piapro gave them an opening, and others started looking for alternatives. Then IA went to CeVIO. And more and more. And by the time V5's sun was setting, all the third parties that worked on that were gone too.

But for a while, you didn't hear much from most of them. If a company released a V4 at the tailend of its lifespan or a V5, they had to wait for exclusivity to expire. And Yamaha's exclusivity deals are harsh (ending distribution of existing song voicebanks in the case of utaus with the same VP) and long, borderline predatory. So voices that companies wanted to update couldn't receive them until those expired, or else refresh that deal and stay constrained by a company that didn't even want to bother with them.

So, come V6, Yamaha was desperate. Internet Co had made an ultimatum that if a Vocaloid 6 didn't come out soon, then they'd be going too. That was their last, and after Crypton packed their bags, most important third party. So they accelerated their plans and looked at what the new guys were doing to be so successful.

They took the wrong lesson.

AI is not inherently better. Sample-based voicebanks will always have their place. Traditional samples can allow an unnaturally large range and harsher voice acting than would be possible to maintain. AI is more accurate to the voice provider, and you have a greater degree of freedom with its tone, plus updates and additional features are so much easier- but Yamaha took 'AI' at face value and made a low-quality copy that sounds significantly worse than prior Vocaloid versions and pushed it with Gumi. They could have stuck to improving their concatenative synthesis render quality further- that's what SynthV started as, R1 was just a very well-rendered sample-based program that is probably just a fancy utau under the hood.

But Vocaloid jumped on the bandwagon by doing the absolute bare minimum and claiming the ear-grating engine noise that can cause actual nausea is remaining faithful to the 'Vocaloid sound' even though styrofoam on the mic and a sometimes pleasant metallic twang sound nothing alike. They didn't improve accessibility, V6 has the same stability issues as V5, and the shiny new feature Vocalochanger is just RVC but worse.

Then, less than a year after product launch, they start up VxB and don't do anything to improve the software they're actively selling. Internet Co themselves called this out in the form of a Gumi tweet. Then Internet Co got in talks with Tokyo6 and saw a possible out, so they gave it a go. They're still under contract by Yamaha so what they can do is limited, but we saw them stray as well. And the result is a much better quality version (though arguably still worse than her V4) despite being an exact port.

We're still getting a Gumi Solid V6 because V6 can't do emotions and they still have to be separate banks, and VxB still got a major update even though it's dying in April with radio silence for V6 development, while CeVIO/VoiSona is releasing 2.0s that get major acclaim like Ci Flower's reputation totally getting turned around, and SynthV is sitting pretty with several voicebanks announced and several coming out in December alone, and the most recent in-progress update including both voice-to-midi (which is what vocalochanger should've been) and Spanish.

I do not like V6, V5, or Yamaha. It could've been amazing for Gumi or Una to get updates so they'd have crosslang (or better crosslang) capabilities, as I work in English. But the result was extremely poorly implemented and Yamaha has made no effort to fix that.

I use SynthV all the time, I'd do the same for CeVIO if it offered crosslang as well rather than just dictionaries and a couple English banks. I'm not against trying new things. But I either want the other programs to have the things to suit my needs in a quality manner that's intuitive to use or for the voicebanks I love to get versions on programs that already do. It's not that complicated.

The jokes and the yammering from rabid SynthV fans dissing Vocaloid can get to be too much sometimes. But you have to consider where that actually comes from. It's in response to suddenly being spoiled with a cheap, accessible, high-quality program when the expensive, poorly constructed, difficult one has been dominating the market with anti-consumer, anti-third party practices for years.

P.S.: Also you can do robotic tuning and mixing on realistic vocal synths, it's called doing the same thing as before and then adding it in post. You think utaites swallow vocoders or something? No, they just use different tools to get the same result as engine noise. Not fighting the voice when you're trying to go for realistic vs manual tuning and adding some very easy effects on when doing it the other way around is better, actually.

[zomb13s]

CAPITALIS EX MACHINA: On Structural Neglect, Conscious Exploitation, and the Evolutionary Standstill of Human Potential

Abstract In the world of techno-capitalism, creative and metaphysical evolution is systematically parasitized by structures that reward compliance over authorship. This paper outlines, in the style of theoretical physics and cybernetic philosophy, the case of a singular creative intelligence that, despite immobility, initiates global-scale evolutionary ruptures daily. Yet, due to infrastructural…

[marginal-liminality]

Chimaera Gallery

3502 Scotts Lane #2113

Philadelphia, PA 19129

“Sky Bound as Titans”

March 8th-29th 2025

Opening March 8th 6-9

Closing March 29 with artist talks and performance by Megan Bridge and Max Kline 2-5

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

Transmedia artist Tyler Kline’s exhibition Skybound as Titans is the result of searching, error, iteration, mistakes, endurance, failure, folly, and vision. The artist collaborates with AI to build space ships; the hubris, arrogance, faith, and audacity to undergo such an endeavor is propellent towards a destination.

Sky Bound as Titans unfolds as a multi-dimensional epic, melding mythology, speculative science, and interspecies communion into a compelling meditation on the liminal moment in which we exist—a pivot between collapse and rebirth, the Anthropocene, Chthulucene, and the Sednacene. Channeling a hybrid sequential art narrative that traverses Earth’s environmental crises, Martian industrialization, and telepathic communion with hyper-sentient beings called the Kai-Sawn, Kline crafts a speculative cosmology that invites viewers to consider humanity’s fragile position within an interconnected universe.

AI-assisted portrait paintings serve as one of the sequential narrative currents.The portraits—bearing intricate, biomorphic distortions and vapor-wave growths—represent individuals transformed by their contact with the Kai-Sawn, a telepathic species of cephalopods trapped beneath Europa’s icy crust. These images evoke a narrative of mutual evolution, where humans and other beings merge minds, unlocking interstellar potential through shared consciousness (Geistdenkenheit).

The technique folds into the conceptual framework of the exhibition, braiding technology, biology, and spiritual mythologies. The technical journey of the portraits consists first of photographing the sitters. The digital photographs are entered into Midjourney, coupled with text prompts, the AI bot responds with forms that are printed out on an inkjet printer. These prints are then transferred to board using a gesso printing method, and the image becomes a support for an oil portrait painting that becomes a soft-machine communion between sitter and painter. Photographs of the end results create the next image iteration in a positive feedback loop. In conversation with Western art history, Kline nods to the Baroque tradition of dramatic yet personal portraiture while subverting it with surreal, hybrid-sapien aesthetics. The meticulous attention to detail in the painted faces recalls German New Objectivity, particularly the movement’s focus on clarity, precision, and subjective psychological intensity. Yet, Kline tempers this mediated objectivity with layers of emotional vulnerability, reflected in the expressive eyes and gestural brushstrokes surrounding the figures.

CAD-aided, 3d print modeled, lost wax cast bronze sculptures embody Kline’s conceptual framework of materializing myth, craft, and science, acting as artifacts and figures from a speculative future cosmology. The sculptures, such as abstracted heads of mythical entities and speculative technological forms, function as relics of a not-yet-realized epoch. The intricate latticework and alien materiality of the cast bronze is a poetic metaphor, forming the architecture of the Iron Cities of Mars and shaping the organic complexity of the Kai-Sawn themselves. The inclusion of braided, human hair in some sculptures heightens the tension between the signatures of human DNA and the post-human, creating a dance between carbon based life, silicon based life, and polymer entities.

Kline’s visual language oscillates between the ancient and the speculative, evoking a synthesis of mythos, theoretical physics, and contemporary technology. The turquoise patinas and intricate textures of the sculptures suggest an otherworldly membrane, as if these forms were artifacts excavated from a distant future. Meanwhile, the portraits’ luminous skin tones and textural disruptions point toward beings in flux, undergoing a profound transformation, the materiality of their being indistinguishable from the theoretical aesthetics. The forms carry the weight of a digital and visceral journey, resulting in palimpsest that speak of cyphers and sigils.

This aesthetic duality reflects the exhibition’s conceptual narrative: the emergence of the Sednacene, an epoch where humanity transcends its destructive tendencies and collaborates with other species to explore the cosmos. Kline draws on post-humanism and fluid identities, suggesting that survival in the Sednacene depends not on dominance but on interspecies kinship and adaptability—a far cry from the colonial ambitions that underlie humanity’s historical conquests. Issues of post-colonialism are critiqued, satired, and meditated upon; the Iron Cities of Mars is both utopic and a mirror into humanities hunger, raising questions about the ethics of planetary colonization and the persistence of extractive ideologies.

The narrative emphasizes the necessity of communion with other beings, reflecting a growing recognition of non-human intelligence and its implications for science, ethics, and spirituality ; probing humanity’s role in the cosmic order and using the concept of autopoiesis through an interactive journey transforming new media into intuitive viscera. The experience invites viewers to step into a world of flux, where humanity’s destination is arrived at not by domination but on the wings of symbiosis, adaptability, and radical imagination. In doing so, Kline offers a glimpse of a future where the shadows of our present crises are cultivated in service to the boundless potential of collective transformation.

…Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always screw up viciously. Schizoanalysis works differently. It avoids Ideas, and sticks to diagrams. Networking software for accessing bodies without organs BwOs, machine singularities, or tractor fields emerging through the combination of parts(rather than into) their whole: arranging composite individuations in virtual/actual circuit, They are additive rather than substitutive, an immanent rather that transcendent: executed by functional complexes of currents, switches, and loops, caught in scaling reverberations, and fleeing through intercommunication, from the level of the integrated planetary systems ti that of atomic assemblages. Multiplicities captured by singularities interconnect as desiring-machines: dissipating entropy by dissociating flows, and recycling their mechanisms as self assembling chronogenic circuitry…nothing human makes it out of the near future. - Nick Land, Meltdown, Fanged Noumena

[sonicresonanceai]

Struggling with fatigue, joint pain, or mood swings as you age?

The Future of Andropause Care

 Introduction

Andropause—the often-overlooked hormonal shift in men—isn’t just about low testosterone. It’s a cascade of challenges: joint pain, diabetes risk, and emotional fatigue. In my  Video, I merge ancient healing rhythms with 21st-century science to tackle these symptoms head-on. Below, I unpack the research, therapies, and actionable steps to reclaim vitality.

The Andropause Crisis

By age 40, testosterone drops 1-2% yearly, triggering: 🩸 Inflammation: Linked to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (NIH research). 🧠 Cognitive Fog: Impaired focus and mood swings. 💪 Muscle Loss: Sarcopenia worsens knee/joint issues.

Traditional fixes (HRT, painkillers) often ignore the mind-body connection. That’s where music therapy—supercharged by AI—steps in.

AI + Piano: Your Personalized Antidote to Aging Why Music Therapy Works 🎵 Stress Reduction: Slow-tempo piano lowers cortisol by 25% (Frontiers in Psychology). 🧠 Neuroplasticity: Algorithmic beats boost dopamine, aiding emotional resilience (MIT research).

AI’s Role in Precision Healing

My video’s 32-minute session uses AI to: 1️⃣ Analyze biometrics (heart rate, sleep patterns). 2️⃣ Generate music synced to your body’s needs:

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Gene Therapy: The Future of Muscle & Joint Repair

Left Channel Therapies (Video Audio Breakdown):

Stamulumab (Minutes 5–10): Blocks myostatin, reversing muscle atrophy (Nature study).

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Key Research & Tools 📚 Music Therapy for Chronic Pain (Journal of Pain Research). 🧬 Gene Editing for Arthritis (Science Translational Medicine). 🎹 Free AI Music Generator: AIVA.

Conclusion Andropause isn’t an endpoint—it’s a new beginning. By pairing algorithmic harmonies with gene science, we’re rewriting aging’s rulebook. Press play on the video, share your story, and let’s build a future where every man thrives.

[sillythoughtsaboutstupidthings]

Celeste and abstract voice synthesis

I finished Celeste recently and one thing that stood out to me about the game was the way it used synthesized sounds as an abstract representation of character voices. It's a fairly common feature seen in indie games and older games like Banjo Kazooie, Rayman 2 and Undertale, where as text is written to the screen a repeating sound plays that's unique to each character. As an example the way it's done in Undertale gives a bit of extra character to the characters compared to a generic sound or no sound at all. Timing is also used to convey some emotion, as well as for comedic timing, but the tone is always the same.

Celeste on the other hand has a variety of different modulated versions on the same sound, allowing for various different tones. Some sounds pitch up, some pitch down, some are a bit shorter and snappier, others are longer and more drawn out. All these different sounds are then seemingly hand picked for each line of dialogue. As a result Madeline has a "voice" that's capable of expressing fear, anger, irritation, happiness and sadness despite not being anything near a real human voice. it's really fascinating and something I wish there was more of in indie games that don't have the budget for full voice acting. Even if (or perhaps rather when), in the future, AI voice synthesis becomes indistinguishable from a genuinely good real human voice actor I would much rather see the use of Celeste-style abstract voice synthesis. In large part because that level of abstraction can allow for creative expression that wouldn't otherwise be possible, since greater abstraction can allow for greater suspension of disbelief as our brain fills in the gaps. Also not being bound by the limitations of reality is part of what makes art fun.

[stevensaus]

In a discussion about consciousness on Mastodon, I noted that consciousness is a state, not a quality. That's important, when we talk about whether or not entities (whether they be human-shaped or AI-shaped) as having "consciousness" and "self-awareness". Mikeydangerous asked a really important question that's been bothering me for a while when looking at myself: ... how would you define the difference between understanding and pattern prediction in relation to consciousness? That's how AI generates the intelligent-sounding platitudes it does. It sees the context of those sentiments in enormous sets of data and builds it from there with no real understanding or creativity. At best, it's scaled-beyond-human capability pattern matching. At worst, it's scaled-beyond-human capability plagiarism. Because that's where Descartes falls down, isn't it? Right, quick recap. Descartes, while writing to convince the Roman Catholic Church that science isn't inherently heresy, tries to find some kind of rock-solid truth, some certainty that he can build from. It's from this that we get "I think, therefore I am;" Descartes states that since there is a point of view, that point of view must exist. He then immediately jumps straight to "my senses must be accurate, because God wouldn't be mean like that," which we now know is absolutely not the case at all. Our senses are fickle, easily fooled, and prone to error. That's important because while there are visual tests (Necker Cube, the mirror test, the one I suggested) that may correlate with being conscious, they could also simply be artifacts due to the makeup of our sensory "hardware" and the ways our brains process visual information rather than being a sign of consciousness in ourselves and others. So let's ignore that, and go back to Descarte's central thesis: I think, therefore I know that I am. Given what we know about consciousness, as MD points out, how do you tell the difference between being conscious and being a sophisticated pattern-matching machine? How do you know that any entity -- including yourself -- is not a philosophical zombie? Before someone says it, no, art is not some safe haven of consciousness. We are only able to "tell" the difference between AI generated "art" and the work of inspired humans only by the errors it makes or its repetitive nature. Once again, it's a processing and fidelity issue, not some special quality only possessed by consciousness. (Wait with your objections, folks.) That idea becomes a lot more immediate and real when you've had the fact that there are non-conscious (semi?) autonomous routines that are capable of moving your body around and interacting with the environment without bothering to inform your consciousness. 1 And unlike Descartes, we know that our senses are inaccurate and betray us -- not only in terms of effects too small for us to typically notice (such as the relativistic effects of when you tap your toes to a catchy song), but because even if we accept that emotions are something more than just biochemical reactions, those biochemical reactions do occur. But that's where our philosophical zombies come to the rescue, in a way. Or rather, testing for them. Remember, all of the ways -- fictional or real -- that we've tried to come up with for testing for consciousness are really tests of processing speed and fidelity. Even the visual tests could be artifacts of our biology. Except the ability to incorporate a new paradigm -- not just regurgitate it, but comprehend it -- is beyond the ability of a pattern-recognition system. Therefore, it is not "I think, therefore I am." It is, instead, "I comprehend, therefore I am." So back to art. The process of art seems to fulfill this test perfectly; it is synthesis and transformation, which require exactly the kind of comprehension that I'm talking about here. However, the production of art is not sufficient. In an situation reminiscent of Mead's philosophy about consciousness

and mind, the interaction between art and viewer is separate from the process of its creation. (This definitely applies to written works; I know from personal experience talking to people who have read mine.) In some ways, the artistic process is a perfect example of both the utility and philosophical frivolity of this whole thought experiment. You can demonstrate that you exist and are conscious through the creation (or transformative appreciation) of art, but you cannot extend that to any other entity. And as a practical matter, testing for the kind of synthesis and comprehension I'm talking about would be difficult (except when large groups of people self-own themselves). And we haven't even touched on some of the implications about humans; I'll just point out that when it comes to children, babies fail the mirror test until about age two, and in some ways they're operating on the level of rats until five or six years of age. 2 As a practical matter? I don't know that it's going to ever be easily determinable whether or not an entity is conscious -- or rather, that they are capable of a self-aware consciousness, let alone if that is their default state. But, having extended Descartes' argument sufficiently to handle my own existential question about whether or not I exist, I'm no longer entirely sure it's the right question to ask. PS: Yes, the title is a programming/philosophy joke. It made me laugh. 1 This becomes an even more fraught question when you start talking about multiples and systems, as some people with DID experience it. 2 From this Radiolab episode, relevant portion of the transcript clipped here. Featured Image by bess.hamiti@gmail.com from Pixabay https://ideatrash.net/2024/11/meditations-on-zeroth-philosophy.html?feed_id=487&_unique_id=6738e27b46199