Bloomsday 2020

A short movie, made by AI, pre-trained on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Today is a special day: Bloomsday. Yearly, on 16th June people worldwide pay tribute to James Joyce and his opus “Ulysses”. They follow virtually or geographically Mr Bloom, the novel’s protagonist, on the streets of Dublin.

While I am not on-site, I am on-line. And so I fed Neural Network GPT-2 (Natural Language Processing, by OpenAI) with the complete text of “Ulysses”. And this is what came out.

As always: everything here is AI-made. The text (GPT-2), the music (JukeBox by OpenAI), the visuals (Artbreeder), voices (Replica Studios). I am just a humble collector of pieces. I’m just a puzzler. And I am still puzzling…

01 Title: "Bloomsday MMXX" (2020)
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03 Produced by: #Merzmensch
04 All contents are created with and by A.I.
05 Visuals: #StyleGAN2 / #ArtBreeder
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07 Music: OpenAI / JukeBox
08 SongID: #787986796
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10 Text: OpenAI / GPT-2, trained on
11 "Ulysses" by James Joyce
12 Voices: Replica Studios / @replica_ai