(NOTE: The sound of my head hitting the table happens somewhere. I'll try to find the time code for that.) Endorphin thinks to call up Ganesh, the remover of obstacles, bringer of good luck, god of beginnings, patron of arts and letters, a really great conversationalist it seems! A comic book artist and magician had recommended Ganesh or Thoth is a good beginning interaction with divinities. Endorphin had mainly ridden the flows of their own, er, libido, having great hesitations of committing to a God. But this device has been really helpful in both making and breaking a connection.
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Thanks to:
EleutherAI for making the GPT-NeoX-20B model that generates the text.
NovelAI for making the text generation service I use for most of these episode, and the text-to-speech version 2 model that makes these episodes potentially entertaining.
@BoneAmputee of EleutherAI for making VQGAN+CLIP and Diffusion image models available for use, which is what makes the background images.
Catherine Crowson (@RiversHaveWings on Twitter) for the KLMC2 animation notebook that will be used on future episodes.
Music by lofi geek on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dTH2FN
Any voices from the text-to-speech model that might resemble persons living or dead are coincidental, which is my speculation, there's a multi-dimensional latent vocal space, there were many awesome finds, and if I use them it's because of my deep-seated respect for their work, and I think they'd get a hoot that their voice was being used to show how large language models, given the right environment, would speak 24/7 epic poems about anything if we let them.
