Stable Diffusion:
https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release 
Open source, it becomes paid after a point, but there are free alternatives available online, here’s an offline free version: https://sunija.itch.io/aiimages (requires a strong gpu to run)

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOsNAb-ML_o

Disco Diffusion:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/alembics/disco-diffusion/blob/main/Disco_Diffusion.ipynb
free but you can pay for access to better gpus

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2MNG8D5x0

Midjourney:
https://discord.gg/midjourney
free up to a point
tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jytmYCC5OtE

Dall-e-2 
the big daddy of ai generators, free with limited usage
https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWwQAvLR0A

an interesting point of view by Dave Mckean (the artist who designed the sandman comic covers) also he’s a personal hero 🙂  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qOn0hx211A

text to speech: https://voicemaker.in many more like this online

Music: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio open source sound generator (music specifically) tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLeOjiaP1ZI

papers on sound generation: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ an interesting viewpoint from a music composer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0DDD7B3oU

GPT-2 Large: https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-large
publicly available free ‘ancestor’ of GPT-3

some more free options:
https://www.sudowrite.com/?ana
https://riku.ai
https://textsynth.com
https://play.aidungeon.io/main/home

loads more are available online

here’s a link to a great online series by Carnedes.org on experimental philosophy, 
they tackle concepts of philosophy in relation to technology in a brilliantly accessible manner, 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa9HhN3Obz4xq_jyPlZE_lw

finally, a few texts to help us along with the conversation

Cyborg Manifesto:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_—-_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_….pdf

Carrier bag theory – Ursula Le Guin
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction

Labor of the inhuman – Reza Negarestani
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59920/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59893/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/

Exactitude of Science – Borges
https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf