The Growing Market for Card & Communication Games and a New Company Creating Games Based on Books & Films
(Original Article on Medium.com) https://ginigrahamscott.medium.com/the-growing-market-for-card-and-communication-games-and-a-new-company-creating-games-based-on-books-57b09c625da2 An article was just published in Substack and Medium about the growing market for card...
How AI Got Started
Many people I’ve met think AI got started at the end of 2022, when ChatGPT was first introduced in November that year, and when some AI art platforms — Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E — were made available to the general public.
But actually, AI has had a long history, though people didn’t call it that, when it was used for public surveillance systems or in digital assistants like SIRI, designed to answer simple questions, make recommendations, and schedule appointments.
Is AI Art Really Art?
I began to think about the question, “Is AI Art Really Art?” after I discovered that many art galleries and artist associations won’t accept AI art. At the same time, some artists creating AI art are making many thousands of dollars from selling their work, and a growing number of online galleries are selling AI art, though only a handful of physical galleries, mainly in a few countries in Europe.
Meanwhile, many thousands of AI artists are using programs like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Leonardo, and Night Café.
After Debate, Close White House Race Inspires a New Song & Book about the Harris-Trump Dog Fight
After the debate, the very close battle between Trump and Vance versus Harris and Walz is like “dog fight” as NBC News once characterized it. So now there’s a White House Dog Race song about Kamala and Trump, as well as a song that could apply to the battle between anyone running for office. The song features the personality traits that they each bring to the dog-versus-dog fight, in response to the comment by Bill Burton, a political consultant who said “I still think it’s fundamentally a dog fight.”
How to Make a Song Go Viral – An Example of a Social Commentary Song
Sometimes songs by an unknown songwriter go viral, such as “Rich Men North of Richmond” about a working class man struggling to get by while rich enjoy their elite moneyed life. And now, another song is going viral: “I’m a Country Man in a Digital Age” which is about a man who wishes for a return to a simpler way of life where people were easy to meet and call. But now he feels the world is moving too fast, and there’s so much hatred and conflict.
He describes how the world is full of smart gadgets, such as phones and robots that can talk, and he worries about a future where AI’s all the rage, but it’s taking away the human touch.
