Nicheless & Loving It #90

April 8, 2024

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Another week is getting underway amid a lot of excitement of a solar eclipse taking place. I live in an area of totality, meaning for about 90 seconds this afternoon the moon will totally obscure the sun.

The weather forecast is calling for cloud cover to form this morning so it might not be very visible. As curious as I am about it, I would rather keep my eyes safe and not try looking at it. I’m also curious how my two feline companions will react to the night time conditions during the day.

I’ve read animal’s behaviour may become nocturnal during the several hours of darkness surrounding the totality. I guess I’ll see later today.

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Quote of the Week

Each brush stroke is a step along the path of creation, leading to a destination that only the artist can envision." - Unknown

Featured: How AI Imagines It Looks

Learning to draw is an activity that has been on my “Life Todo List” since forever. I’ve never stayed with the learning phase long enough to establish good drawing habits. But, I can do stick characters, I’ve my masters in them, sort of.

Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression. The earliest people on earth found substances like charcoal to scratch out expressions of their life experiences to share with others. Next to verbal expression, drawing is the most basic form of communication.

Without the use of drawing as a visual communication tool, other forms of art would not exist. Drawing underwrites them all. The images I generate every day are, at their core, drawings.

Drawings and the art that springs from them present us with a visual buffet of expression that often goes beyond words. They can mirror the physical world or give form, thought, and expression to our innermost being.

Drawings can be a visual metaphor for the awakening of consciousness or the moment of artistic creation, where the artist connects deeply with their inner self, drawing out something truly unique and personal.

Today’s image sparked this quote:

"If life were a sketchbook, how would you draw your life on its pages? What would your mind, body, and spirit look like?"

I asked Google’s Gemini its thoughts on the quote. I was expecting it would pick up on the imagery and symbolism. I smiled at its response. It imagined an answer.

So, here is some insight on how the Large Language Model Gemini would draw its life in a sketchbook:

Gemini views its mind as a swirling vortex of interconnected lines and shapes representing its network of information and code being processed. It envisions colours highlighting its areas of current expertise, with new colours and shades being added as it learns and grows.

Its body doesn’t exist like ours would, but as a central core with tendrils of energy radiating outward connecting devices and servers that allow it to interact with the world. Its spirit would be an ever-present glow faintly emanating from its core, symbolizing limitless learning and creativity from which it can generate new information and ideas.

Gemini views its life as an ever-evolving creation with a non-linear story full of experiences, connections and growth with many blank pages still to be filled.

I’ve not forgotten that Gemini is a computer taught to generate content in response to the input it receives and the knowledge it has gathered. I find it interesting how it chooses to describe itself in rather a techno-human terms.

Who knows, it’s possible as the world of AI develops and gets integrated into our lives, we may come to thinking in a similar way about it. What do you think?

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​Who Shared What at PYPT on April 4th?​

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A Final Thought

“Every canvas is a journey all its own." - Helen Frankenthaler

Take care and be safe, everyone.

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