A conversation with a chatbot

If something already characterizes this third decade of the 21st century it’s Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as AI. The increasingly popular chatbots are the de facto liaisons between humans and machines. Though lacking consciousness or self-awareness (as of right now), these autonomous techie assistants do show some personality patterns in the way they interact with and provide answers to users’ requests. Of course, the resulting conversations are, well, synthetic —they mostly regurgitate facts harvested from humanity’s intellect (or even generate inaccurate “facts” sometimes)—, but…Continue Reading “A conversation with a chatbot”

1998/2025… still here

Though I’m not actively making (or taking or creating or whatever) fractal pictures as I used to do, I take the time to revisit this website at least once a year to keep the information that is —still— relevant up-to-date. Lately, that task has become manageable because the fractal hype of the early 2000 is over, fewer generators keep updating, and overall people’s activity has slow down significantly. Worth checking out are: The point is, even though the dates of the “latest picture” may suggest…Continue Reading “1998/2025… still here”

Defining fractal art: A “history” (kind of)

One of human hobbies is to classify everything by giving it names. Nothing can exist without at least a common designation. And so it happens that at some point, probably in the late 1970s, it became necessary to distinguish a novel type of computer-generated images from the sample pages in the catalog of visual things. By then some people had already realized the potential appeal of this kind of pictures, so intriguing and so different than anything that preceded this style, that it was worth coining a unique label for it. Since…Continue Reading “Defining fractal art: A “history” (kind of)”