AI Memories
A personal project for your enjoyment this weekend: AI Memories!
After years of working with generative AI tools, I have learned to see the similarities in how my thoughts, dreams, and memories also work. I tend to dream in a duotone spectrum, with detail that fades from the center and visualizations that are almost generated in real-time when I focus on any detail. This process is not dissimilar to how a?diffusion model recreates images! Identical to AI, the image has not?been stored?in my mind, but the concept of it has. The memory is reconstructed not so much by a visual imprint but rather by a pattern formula of probabilities that approximates reality without?truly?being an identical depiction.
I believe Generative AI is opening many creative ways of approaching content, and one of my favorite expressions is attempting to “photograph” situations that do not exist anymore. AI allows me to describe the memory as I remember it and, with the subtle use of prompts and parameters, arrive at a very close approximation of how that memory looks to me… independent of how it was. If being realistic is all I wanted, I might peruse scans of old Ektachrome photos in our collective internet repository until finding the closest one, but that is not my intention…?This growing collection will reflect a very personal (and hopefully at times entertaining) perspective on the memories of the culture I grew from.Please let me know in the comments if you would like to see more!