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Idea LabAdded Sep 28, 2026

Jev finished Pokémon Red in 37 hours

A decision model chose navigation, dialogue, and battle actions from legal options prepared by a harness, reaching the Hall of Fame in 37 hours 40 minutes.

Game experimentJevAI playthrough

Idea LabAdded Sep 3, 2026

PatternPortrait: A robot draws your photo in an artist’s one-sample pattern language

The installation photographs a visitor, extracts the portrait’s edges, styles it with a graph neural network trained on one artist-made pattern, and plots the result on paper.

drawing robotgraph neural networkone-shot learninginteractive portrait

Idea LabAdded Sep 3, 2026

Experimance: Reshape sand and watch AI rebuild the landscape

Visitors sculpt white sand while a depth camera reads its topology and SDXL generates satellite-like landscapes in real time; an AI voice agent also joins the installation.

interactive installationgenerative imagerysandscapevoice agent

Idea LabAdded Sep 3, 2026

MEMORY: A drawing robot trained on two decades of an artist’s marks

Sougwen Chung draws beside a robotic arm whose neural network learned from years of archived drawings, producing machine interpretations rather than copying the current gesture.

robotic armcollaborative drawingneural networkmachine memory

Idea LabAdded Sep 3, 2026

The Substitute: An AI rhino becomes lifelike as the real subspecies disappears

A northern white rhino agent learns inside a virtual enclosure and shifts from pixels to a lifelike body, questioning whether a digital substitute can answer a real conservation failure.

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Jev finished Pokémon Red in 37 hours

PatternPortrait: A robot draws your photo in an artist’s one-sample pattern language

Experimance: Reshape sand and watch AI rebuild the landscape

MEMORY: A drawing robot trained on two decades of an artist’s marks

The Substitute: An AI rhino becomes lifelike as the real subspecies disappears

Training AI to Paint Watercolors with Code

Claw3D: Move an AI Team into a 3D Office

Connect the Lines: Match Your Doodle with a Munch Sketch

Walzersymphonie: A Composer and Generative AI Rework the Waltz

vgpu: Make WebGPU Graphics and Computation Easier for AI to Write

The Falling City: A Machine-Watched City That Keeps Misreading You

The Artificial Literature Laboratory: Writing With a Language Model in Public

Reverse Turing Test: Pretend to Be an AI Inside Virtual Reality

Rapid Evolution: Inventing Future Animals for a Changing Climate

Polyphony: AI, Kinetic Machines, Sound, and VR in One Performance

Phantom Protocols: When Robots and Climate Models Hallucinate

NeXus Print: Co-Creating Shared Worlds in XR With Generative AI

Model Collapse: Turning AI Degradation Into Machinery, Sound, and Sculpture

Large Language Writer: A Physical Writing Machine That Exposes Its Probabilities

HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: THE OPS ROOM