Nye Warburton

Nye Warburton

Mar 30

Here Comes Reinforcement Learning

TLDR: Reinforcement Learning (RL) teaches AI to improve through millions of trial and error attempts at warp speed, powering everything from back-flipping robots to smarter cities. Trust me, it’s going to be a very big deal. Remember that rush when you finally beat that impossible video game boss after fifty attempts? Or mastered a skateboard trick after face-planting and ripping up your knees? That's your brain on reinforcement learning—trying, failing, adjusting, and eventually nailing it.Link

Read more about the following topics:

  1. AI University
  2. The Revolution will be Automated
  3. Hang on! Coding a Game with AI
  4. To Teach or Not to Teach Artificial Intelligence
  5. Bear_Rabbit_Robot: Mapping AI's Latent Space
  6. Here Comes Reinforcement Learning

Nye Warburton

Mar 12

Bear_Rabbit_Robot: Mapping AI's Latent Space

"Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career." — Matt Groening Bear, with the slightest amount of Rabbit and Robot. Stable Diffusion. Using AI for art is an exploration, not an act of creation. You do not create with AI, you search --- and zero-in on an idea. Hopefully, you do this, while leaving yourself open to the discovery of new ideas along the way. Link

Nye Warburton

Mar 6

Educational Citizenship

TLDR: What if students viewed themselves as citizens rather than consumers of education? The Age of the Consumer, Stable Diffusion The Age of the Consumer Jeff Bezos built Amazon on an almost obsessive focus: give customers exactly what they want, when they want it. This isn't just a business – it's a logistical empire built on precision. Every click, every purchase, every moment you spend on Amazon feeds into algorithms designed to predict and fulfill your desires with increasing accuracy. Link

Nye Warburton

Feb 10

Super Villain Networks: The Tech Bro’s Guide to World Domination

TLDR: Your friendly neighborhood guide to becoming tomorrow's tech overlord! From AI-powered ego boosters to loyal robot minions and that pesky quest for digital immortality. (Ethics-Bypass Chip™ sold separately.)

Contents

  1. Introduction: The Antiheroes We Deserve
  2. Chapter 1 / Fantastic Gadgets
  3. Chapter 2 / Personalized Robots
  4. Chapter 3 / Centralized Servers
  5. Conclusion : The Heroes We Need
    Villainous Generations, Stable Diffusion Introduction: The Antiheroes We Deserve If our cultural obsessions are unexamined, then our future is the wild west. Link

Nye Warburton

Jan 28

My Robot Dog and Me

The robots are coming. Just like their cousin, the quad-copter drones before them, the robot dog movement is in full swing, and it’s only a matter of time before we all have them. Now is the time for creatives to start playing with robotics.

Contents:

  1. The Everyday Roboticist
  2. Drones to RoboDogs
  3. RoboDogs to Androids
  4. What can we do with a Robot?
  5. Getting Started with Robotics
    RoboLego Maniac, Stable Diffusion The Everyday Roboticist Remember when creating a website meant wrestling with HTML and FTP? You made things happen by grinding your way through code and design. Link

Nye Warburton

Jan 7

Disruptions in Gaming: A Hypothesis

TLDR: The gaming industry is undergoing a radical systemic transformation. My hypothesis: Individual game creators armed with AI tools, open-source software, and access to decentralized networks will compete effectively with large traditional game studios.

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Traditional Game Business Model
  3. The Impact of Networks
  4. The Rise of User Generated Content
  5. Three Disruptive Forces
  6. Artificial Intelligence
  7. Advice for New Developers
  8. Conclusion
    Introduction I believe the video game industry is about to experience a renaissance powered by collaborative creativity and disruptive technology. Link

Nye Warburton

Dec 26

Rethinking Innovation: AI and the Problem with Objectives

TLDR: AI science might reveal the secret to innovation: Stop Obsessing Over Objectives. The Objective-Driven World We're obsessed with objectives. From the moment we enter school, we're taught to set goals, make plans, and work systematically toward achieving them. Get good grades, land a prestigious job, climb the corporate ladder, buy a house, start a family – our lives become a series of check-boxes waiting to be ticked off. Link

Nye Warburton

Dec 18

Hang on! Coding a Game with AI

TLDR: I wanted to see what coding a game with AI was like. Hold on, it's pretty nuts. My Prototype: Prototstar

Contents:

  1. Can I build a game with AI?
  2. Coding with Windsurf
  3. From Concepting to Functional Prototype
  4. Reality Check
  5. Lessons Learned Link

Nye Warburton

Sep 18

The Revolution will be Automated

TLDR: The democratization of low code, easily accessible AI, and low cost hardware will spark a new revolution in personal automation computing. Homebrew 1.0 In the 1970s, a group of Silicon Valley enthusiasts gathered to form the Homebrew Computer Club. (1) These were the computer geeks before computers became household items. They'd huddle together, excitedly discussing circuit boards and the basic "if-then" statements of early motherboards. Little did they know they were sowing the seeds for future innovations. Link

Nye Warburton

Jul 2

The Future of Work: Embracing Passion, Decentralization, and Automation

TLDR: On the eve of the Intelligence Revolution, perhaps it is time to reimagine the world of work, embracing a future that values passion, decentralization and automation. "The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness." - David Whyte (1)

Contents:

  1. Soul Sucking Data Theft
  2. Decentralized Fundraising
  3. Case Study: Gitcoin
  4. The Future of Work
  5. A Post-Capitalist Future? "Soul Sucking Future," Stable Diffusion, Leonardo Phoenix, (Leonardo). Link

Nye Warburton

Mar 14

Is this Essay Real?

Actionable Philosophy to cope with Reality Loss in the age of AI. Land of the LostAR Uber Ride in New York (Stable Diffusion / Leonardo.ai) An image scrolls by in your social feed. “No way.” You think. That’s good, you have questioned its authenticity. Your triggered defense is giving you an instinct. Don’t lose it. As you will see below - my worry is that collectively we will lose that instinct to question the world around us. But conversely, what if that image is real? Is this information trustworthy? Link

Nye Warburton

Feb 16

Genghis Kahn & The Blockchain

TLDR: An essay analogizing the Mongol Horde of the Thirteenth Century, and the rise of protocol-driven blockchain networks. The Latent Space Recreation of the Thirteenth Century Mongolian Empire (Leonardo / Stable Diffusion / DreamShaper V6.0)

Introduction

Genghis Khan built the largest land empire in history, conquering more territory in 15 years than the Roman Empire did in 400. How? Were the Mongols better fighters? Were they faster? What made them run circles around the armies they fought? Link

Nye Warburton

Jan 2

Libertatem Machinae: Designing Responsible AI Systems

TLDR: The responsible governance of AI systems may be the most important design challenge of the next decade. Solutions to this technical challenge may lie in the ethics of written constitutions.

Contents

  1. Common Sense
  2. Constitutions
  3. AI Governance
  4. Claude's Constitutional AI
  5. Designing Governance
  6. Generative Thomas Paine (Stable Diffusion XL) Common Sense On the eve of the American revolution, Thomas Paine wrote down some exceptional thoughts about governance. Seeing America through the eyes of an Englishman was unique. Link