Bernhard Schmitt
@patchcritics.bsky.social
Assoc.Prof. NTUSingapore ◽️Experimental Animation & Human-Robot-Interaction ◻️Accidental Academic ▫️Ex-Disney/Aardman
Curious how much AI the Arts can stomach
Curious how much AI the Arts can stomach
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“tHiS iS AI! Who dares post this! 😠” - the replies alone prove how utterly humorless Bluesky has become. (Or always was)
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“tHiS iS AI! Who dares post this! 😠” - the replies alone prove how utterly humorless Bluesky has become. (Or always was)
I’ve been ending student consultations with “don’t let me detain you” for years - and today, one finally got the reference.
#thekidsarealright
#thekidsarealright
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I’ve been ending student consultations with “don’t let me detain you” for years - and today, one finally got the reference.
#thekidsarealright
#thekidsarealright
Reposted by Bernhard Schmitt
Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch
Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
It’s always funny how many Asians are 100% convinced “Maggi” is an old, traditional Asian brand and simply won’t accept it’s Swiss.
November 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It’s always funny how many Asians are 100% convinced “Maggi” is an old, traditional Asian brand and simply won’t accept it’s Swiss.
He’s 100% right.
Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there.
For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood.
At least they tried.
Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there.
For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood.
At least they tried.
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
He’s 100% right.
Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there.
For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood.
At least they tried.
Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there.
For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood.
At least they tried.
Reposted by Bernhard Schmitt
Ai Weiwei.
Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat:
Der deutsche Proto-Rentner.
hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...
Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat:
Der deutsche Proto-Rentner.
hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...
What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.
hyperallergic.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ai Weiwei.
Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat:
Der deutsche Proto-Rentner.
hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...
Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat:
Der deutsche Proto-Rentner.
hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...
Playing around with Fibonacci based procedural stop-motion animation and AI-generated code-to-Blender-to-3D-print pipelines.
Still a bit messy, but promising.
Still a bit messy, but promising.
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Playing around with Fibonacci based procedural stop-motion animation and AI-generated code-to-Blender-to-3D-print pipelines.
Still a bit messy, but promising.
Still a bit messy, but promising.
After walking into the workshop over the weekend, I now know:
A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time.
B) Where all the materials are disappearing to.
They’re preparing for Comic-Con.
A+
#Halo
A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time.
B) Where all the materials are disappearing to.
They’re preparing for Comic-Con.
A+
#Halo
October 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
After walking into the workshop over the weekend, I now know:
A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time.
B) Where all the materials are disappearing to.
They’re preparing for Comic-Con.
A+
#Halo
A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time.
B) Where all the materials are disappearing to.
They’re preparing for Comic-Con.
A+
#Halo
STEM postdocs when you ask them if they need help with the grant writing they do for you.
a little girl in a red and purple dress is holding a comb and saying stay away
ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is holding a comb and saying stay away
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
STEM postdocs when you ask them if they need help with the grant writing they do for you.
Phil Tippett (74) apparently adapts to new technology far better than many of young creatives in the industry who cling to the “anything AI is Satan” narrative.
Oscar-winning VFX legend Phil Tippett ('Star Wars,' 'Jurassic Park') mastered the blending of practical and digital effects when the latter technology was still new. At View Conference this week, he shared how his studio is now bringing AI into the mix.
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/phil-tip...
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/phil-tip...
VFX Icon Phil Tippett On His Studio's Generative AI Use
At Italy’s VIEW Conference, Tippett Studio veterans explore how artificial intelligence could accelerate stop motion and VFX without losing the human touch.
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Phil Tippett (74) apparently adapts to new technology far better than many of young creatives in the industry who cling to the “anything AI is Satan” narrative.
🤩
Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...
Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio
The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🤩
Dramaqueens
Gleich mehrfach musste die Wiesbadener Feuerwehr am Samstag in die Nähe eines asiatischen Supermarkts ausrücken: Verdacht auf Gas-Alarm. Ursache waren jedoch exotische Früchte - mit einem markanten Geruch.
Falscher Gas-Alarm: Feuerwehr in Wiesbaden rückt viermal wegen übler Stinkfrucht-Gerüche aus
Gleich mehrfach musste die Wiesbadener Feuerwehr am Samstag in die Nähe eines asiatischen Supermarkts ausrücken: Verdacht auf Gas-Alarm. Ursache waren jedoch exotische Früchte - mit einem markanten Geruch.
www.spiegel.de
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Dramaqueens
"(...)applications in disaster management, search-and-rescue operations, and beyond."
Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.
Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.
Researcher at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a novel system that enables faster, more accurate object detection for drones, paving the way for their use in disaster management and search-and-rescue operations. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-09... #Robots #Robotics
Lightweight framework enables faster, more accurate object detection for UAV remote sensing
Remote sensing object detection is a rapidly growing field in artificial intelligence, playing a critical role in advancing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-world applications such ...
techxplore.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"(...)applications in disaster management, search-and-rescue operations, and beyond."
Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.
Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.
Still not sure how this would work, but we're ready.
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Still not sure how this would work, but we're ready.
After all the Charlie Kirk meets Jesus clips from 2 weeks ago, I started looking deeper into online religious AI slop and…
Good Lord! 😳
youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...
Good Lord! 😳
youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...
Rapture Short 3D Animated Christian Movie that will change your life | AI Animation #biblestories
YouTube video by THINK JESUS NETWORK
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
After all the Charlie Kirk meets Jesus clips from 2 weeks ago, I started looking deeper into online religious AI slop and…
Good Lord! 😳
youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...
Good Lord! 😳
youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...
"Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios -nuclear war, global warming, autocracy -are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising) can generate some enjoyable escapism."
Pretty much sums up the current debate
Pretty much sums up the current debate
The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:
The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
bit.ly
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios -nuclear war, global warming, autocracy -are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising) can generate some enjoyable escapism."
Pretty much sums up the current debate
Pretty much sums up the current debate
At the same time, people who oppose anything AI pick up the same language - just flipped.
They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan.
Just as silly as worshipping it.
They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan.
Just as silly as worshipping it.
“These are really big, scary problems that are complex & challenging to address — it’s so easy to gravitate towards fantastical thinking & wanting a one-size-fits-all global solution."
— @dylnbkr.bsky.social, lead research engineer at the Distributed AI Research Institute
apnews.com/article/arti...
— @dylnbkr.bsky.social, lead research engineer at the Distributed AI Research Institute
apnews.com/article/arti...
How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI
As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.
apnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
At the same time, people who oppose anything AI pick up the same language - just flipped.
They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan.
Just as silly as worshipping it.
They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan.
Just as silly as worshipping it.
People clearly have never seen Paw Patrol.
September 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
People clearly have never seen Paw Patrol.
Heavy 2019-Twitter Kindergarten vibes
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Heavy 2019-Twitter Kindergarten vibes
The problem in a city with top-notch public transport is that people are atrocious cyclists and drivers.
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The problem in a city with top-notch public transport is that people are atrocious cyclists and drivers.
Late-stage Surveillance Capitalism
September 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Late-stage Surveillance Capitalism
Application No. 216 for humanoid robots (before we find a useful one):
Being a smooth criminal.
It's really smooth.
Being a smooth criminal.
It's really smooth.
In a time when humanoid gimmicks are omnipresent, this trick tickles me.
A moonwalk by the KAIST humanoid from Hae-Won Park’s lab. It feels so purposeful in its use of foot contact.
A moonwalk by the KAIST humanoid from Hae-Won Park’s lab. It feels so purposeful in its use of foot contact.
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Application No. 216 for humanoid robots (before we find a useful one):
Being a smooth criminal.
It's really smooth.
Being a smooth criminal.
It's really smooth.
The movie will flop - hard.
But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down.
Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years.
In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.
But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down.
Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years.
In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.
Tech investors are fast-tracking an AI-generated animated feature, 'Critterz,' for Cannes 2026. Sold as “democratizing” animation, it instead raises urgent questions about craft, labor, and storytelling driven by algorithms rather than inspiration.
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
OpenAI-Backed Animated Film ‘Critterz’ Aims For Cannes
OpenAI’s AI-backed 'Critterz' is sold as a test of ‘democratizing’ animation, a framing that feels disingenuous in today’s industry context.
www.cartoonbrew.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The movie will flop - hard.
But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down.
Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years.
In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.
But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down.
Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years.
In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.
Not an Ostalgie fan at all - but some Socialist Realism art really slaps.
Cyclists on the side of the old DDR House of Teachers. Part of Walter Womacka’s “Unser Leben” mosaic.
(Apologies for all the moaning this moaning - here’s something pretty to enjoy!)
(Apologies for all the moaning this moaning - here’s something pretty to enjoy!)
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Not an Ostalgie fan at all - but some Socialist Realism art really slaps.