I taught a computer how to take photos

Machine learning and AI photography
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[@TrangNguyen-cs6wv]

I have a feeling George is gonna be a cool uncle

[@NegativeFeedback]

I am already a cool uncle to a 1 and 3 year old

[@HighHatOG]

I’m sure people in the future will see George’s grandkids on KZbin or Reddit like “My grandpa passed away and left me his $1,000,000 camera collection 😱”

[@finnstarkey565]

What in the flying 2001: a space odyssey fuck did I just witness.

[@Jokasitot]

I like the creative ideas on how to film yourself talking to the camera, switching it up all the time and going for different and unusual angles

[@julien.2573]

I don't know why but his framing looks so British 😅

[@bene681]

I really like the concept! This isn't just about teaching a ML algorithm what a gas station looks like, but its actually learning something about the way that photographers actually perceive these scenes and what we decide to capture as a combined consciousness. I saw a photography exhibition a while ago with one of these weird films created by an AI, except it was provided a training set of different species of flowers, and the algorithm created images that obviously were of flowers, images of flowers that don't exist. It reminds me a bit of platonic forms, that its somehow capturing what the 'essence' of what these objects are

[@SebNooord]

You remember the name of the exhibition or the artist by any chance? Sounds super interesting

[@bene681]

@@SebNooord just had a google to see if I could find it, here you go: annaridler.com/mosaic-virus

[@Mikeebones]

should be in a modern art museum.

[@xella3525]

Or be an NFT

[@gabe-fuhrman]

going to make a GAN of george talking to the camera center frame: 30 georges that don't exist

[@haileyport6458]

"I have a master plan" - Fantastic Mr. Fox feat. a beanie and Anderson camera angle

[@andorsipos444]

these are beautiful! would be interested in a video explaining how you made it

[@youth_in_asia]

Film photography + Modular is a match made in heaven in my opinion. It's nice seeing 2 of my favourite creators collaborating too

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

3:39 when you have sniffed too much at the chemicals during development. 😂 this is f*cking trippy

[@oliverhardinge]

Super creative George. Love this kind of work

[@williamdaviau1258]

I really enjoy seeing the evolution of your visual practice George. I think your work is getting seriously grounded in many interesting post-photographic narratives. Thanks again for this great content. Best

[@franciscodelfino7766]

Can someone share me a video tutorial for do something like this awesome video!

[@jazper4518]

Great concept! very similar to Jack Lathams Latent Bloom or Max Pinckers Trophy Camera

[@mattbray_studio]

This is sick George. Pushing the whole KZbin film scene forward with this one

[@Reeo92]

By encountering the problem of being creatively stuck in the medium in which you have the most affinity, it is a nice source of creative imagination to deal with it and a good attempt to solve it.

[@bykth]

Hi! I'd like to try this for myself just for fun hahahaha. Can you happen to share a really quick pseudocode or any external sources or apis you used for this?

[@rawrats24]

I wanna know too

[@zsuzsi.boross]

Me too it’s sooo interesting

[@00chilli00]

try searching for artbreeder or gans-awesome-application on github

[@wietvrouw]

This is like watching a gasstation through a really wavy/milky pane of glass at times, so much so that you can feel that there is really a gasstation behind the distortion.

[@tobyhawkins5773]

Absolutely love the transitions from night to day. Feels like an alienation of a familiar subject, questions what we believe is real.

[@kristinchong629]

Like the creative lift. 🎉

[@lovkaug]

that was very touching. like i didn't feel like the end product was shitting on shooters either.

[@AndrewMclean]

George is the biggest thing to happen to vests since Die Hard

[@NegativeFeedback]

Thanks

[@stosicmediagroup]

Man u are crazy inspiration to me! Gonna use some of your ideas in my next music videos! Great camera work!

[@michaeldales1512]

Bookshelf peeping: I just got Mitch Epstien’s American Power book and it reminded me of your pictures of Ferrybridge power station!

[@WhiteNoises]

Love the result George! Pleasure to take part, great to see you pushing the medium.

[@MelanieKing]

That is pretty awesome. I love the synth soundtrack!

[@LewisCooley]

You needed a minimum of 100 gas station photos? Should have just gone to the front page of r/analog, love ya George!

[@NegativeFeedback]

Lol

[@NemDomi1]

hashtag cinestil800

[@f.r.e.a.m.3050]

Wonderful tripy video and music - highly appreciate both!

[@ConstantThrowing]

I cheered when you said you were gonna do 'gas stations at night'. It was between that and diners for me so I'm glad you went that way.

[@jamesbrockett786]

Oh my god George I am so impressed. You are Changing the game. The rebirth of this channel has been a unique privilege to watch.

[@samvholt]

Fascinating video. Love the end montage and the synth works so well. Waiting for part 2: lamp posts and street corners

[@marcoandres7475]

Love the morphing petrol stations. And the soundtrack. Minor quibble: in actuality the system is creating images, rather than « taking photos ». I think that the technique probably being used is a neural network [a form of machine learning, which is a branch of AI {Artificial Intelligence} and more specifically an example of « deep learning » For more info see the Wikipedia entry « Artificial Neural Networks », part of a series on Machine Learning.

[@SpatPro]

Do you think the opening to Brockhampton's music video for Buzzcut was made with a GAN? Seems like a similar generated image

[@loveino1269]

Pretty sure him and his friend are the ones who did the visualizers for the Roadrunner album :DD

[@ivanatl96]

Can you do a tutorial on how to do it?

[@m322_yt]

If I remember correctly, there is a tutorial on GANs in the TensorFlow documentation. I’m sure there are also more accessible tutorials out there.

[@lochiej6059]

Ive seen you do this for new Brockhampton!! Goes hard man! Good job

[@adventureStaley]

OKAY- that was next level awesome. Just tickled my little sweet spot...

[@roboldx9171]

Thanks for the ideas man. Great inspiration. I will be using my own image though cos I love taking foto's.

[@iphoneography]

so cool....

[@ExhaleCantShuffle]

This is, jokes aside, a really fucking cool idea George. Hope you're going to develop further on this in the future!

[@patrickrostker6693]

Simply Georgeous !

[@josephmontez879]

Holy shit what a wild idea. Great video! Everything looks like the noise reduction slider was maxed out.

[@diegoebustamante]

I am waiting for George to start developing his own Neural Networks using Python and Tensor Flow

[@Snuckyfication]

One word: Brilliant! Cudos to the two of you!

[@ninosmall6843]

This is such a masterpiece

[@sophieasia]

Tell us you're making this a NFT and selling it for a million.

[@Coconut7403]

I would find it more interesting to use a classification algorithm to determine which of my pictures are actually visually pleasing

[@yuyingzhang6006]

The final video gives me a sense of glitch art

[@kbmats]

So fckn cool

[@kriseric1]

I called it, LOL gas stations at night. Try Roy's sign if you want a tighter training set for the ML

[@durango-CODEBUILDER]

This is so fucking cool.

[@garymorrow9324]

As Spock would say...."Fascinating". Loved the music, too

[@emanuelllR]

wow this can be a hole new thing in digital art

[@645MF]

The technology celebrate today will be the monarch we hate tomorrow

[@eighteenfiftynine]

I don't really understand why anyone is celebrating it. Back in the 90s we thought the internet was going to be great... It isn't.

[@samskordi6079]

Nice

[@Koettnylle]

Nice collab. Very cool!

[@FlipBerk]

Hi George , can you please add link to GAN online ? Loved this video want to try it 🤘

[@ееххееех]

Runway ML

[@jellekoiter]

this is some artistic stuff. love it

[@Bobby_sprinkles]

This is basically a work of art.

[@7totm7]

Looking forward to the "americana" version of this, with ruined motelsigns and the shiny backs of old mustangs and corvettes

[@KeychildProductions]

George unleashed Skynet, only it bedazzles people with dreamworld images before eliminating them

[@benschweiger1671]

Did you do any of the machine learning specifically on your own? Any tutorials? I'm fascinated by your project.

[@TommyGrisselFilms]

This is perfect

[@Cosyboit]

Does it sound crazy that I want a tattoo of one of those weird phases during the video..!? 😂🤷🏾‍♂️

[@MattJNeale]

this is sick man

[@sadiesmith4773]

This was so cool! The images with the soundtrack together reminded me of Koyaanisqatsi

[@REMY.C.]

Nice to see you here too 😂

[@sadiesmith4773]

@@REMY.C. I'm helpless lol

[@REMY.C.]

@@sadiesmith4773 admitting it is the first step to recovery :-D it's gonna be alright. See you soon in the posts of an another film photography youtuber. Oh and I'm no stalker, I'm not following you or harassing you XD

[@GoonosaurusRex]

Georgie’s the GOAT

[@colejaneteas]

This is incredible

[@lukeisafinename]

Gaahhhhdammit, I had a print in my cart, but it added over 50 pounds to ship :( probably because I'm in the US. Big sad. BUT, that a/v sequence would fit stupid well in a multimedia art gallery. Superb stuff.

[@oconnelljackson]

That was amazing man!

[@taylortrimnal]

Love it!

[@fiorellacorreia351]

dude, this is amazing!

[@MaxLamdin]

I believe Jack Latham did this with flowers?

[@batchmotors]

Been chatting to Jack Latham I see !

[@bertbricks]

My thoughts exactly

[@bradfeuerhelm4794]

This is basically Jack Latham's Bloom project. Whom you are aware of. and should credit.

[@dan-le-brun]

Loved it

[@tomasdahuabe]

It's like a future mushroom

[@Thorpal]

Did you code yourself ? That looked amazing !

[@user-ny3zf5go6c]

I've been trying to figure out how to do this without coding knowledge, Nvidia GPU or spending money on RunwayML.. What did you use to make the GANs?

[@NegativeFeedback]

Spent money on runway

[@NegativeFeedback]

Worth it IMO for the simplicity

[@andrewsmicroscope]

Living in the future is amazing. Thats some weird shit bro. Thanks.

[@jaygoodsell.7403]

Similar to D33J - Next day vid! so sick

[@bridgeteke60]

Nah this is too cool!

[@ShutterDB]

Now this is an NFT i'd buy.

[@SergejKarssen]

It is very interesting to see how AI has come so far that now it is trying to replicate itself in the realms of computing, science, gaming and art.

[@djrank019]

Really cool effect there ( 2:40) , reminds me of acid , could i ask how did you make that effect ? or was it from a computer generated animation when studying the photos ?

[@stevenmeyer-rassow8551]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up in the Tate gallery at some point in the future. It’s a really cool idea.

[@austing2968]

this feels way too much like an acid trip but incredible fucking work nonetheless

[@ericpaynestudio]

Kinda sucks you didn't share software or skillshare class links! good work otherwise though

[@mikhaildaviesphoto]

Man if you put this up on foundation as an NFT it would sell for 5 figures

[@Rapberry]

Dang that’s crazy

[@eccentricsmithy2746]

Your computer knew how to take pics before you did.

[@CasnioMiCasio]

well thats better than most of art graduates thesis!

[@GeoffreyGonzales]

i like the canon fd l

[@eleeadams]

What software did you use? Or did you develop it yourself?

[@sophietucker1255]

Very cool and interesting but I'm not sure I'd be putting my cameras away just yet.

[@coleburgess1557]

anyone know where he got this beanie?

[@NegativeFeedback]

194 local

[@ethanbrady5736]

Anyone here know the reciprocity factor for pro 400H

[@shaundodd7390]

I feel like this is what the world will look like to the first conscious AI. What an incredible piece of art.

[@shaundodd7390]

@Dominique We don't know enough about consciousness to know whether that is true.

[@Adeintheliife]

Oh you’re different 🤯

[@thapelomasebe3075]

I'm at 1:49 and the next thing I wanna see is computer generated gas stations

[@sheelios]

George is slowly becoming a vtuber?