Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic In the stories of algorithms gone haywire, the glitches prompt programmers to reassess what they really want from their programs, and how to get it. What we can learn from the errors of machine learning is that we do not have to live according to a set of rules …
When Algorithms Surprise Us [Above] Why walk when you can flop? In one example, a simulated robot was supposed to evolve to travel as quickly as possible. But rather than evolve legs, it simply assembled itself into a tall tower, then fell over. Some of these robots even learned to turn their falling motion into …
styledeficit : Mattel cancelled Aristotle , but Alexa is coming for your kids anyway.
The Overwhelming Emotion of Hearing Toto’s “Africa” Remixed to Sound Like It’s Playing in an Empty Mall | New Yorker Our lives increasingly play out in virtual spaces: instead of going to malls, we surf on Amazon; many of us would happily forgo the mess of a party to stay home and flirt through an app. Listening …
prostheticknowledge : Gloomy Sunday Latest addition to Memo Akten ’s ongoing ‘Learning to See’ project demonstrates a neural network powered realtime image translation framework, presenting possibilites for visual poetry: A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to …
Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn - The New York Times “Even seeing part of how a decision was made can give you a lot of insight into the possible ways it can fail,” said Christopher Olah, a Google researcher. A growing number of A.I. researchers are now developing ways to better understand …
So Alexa decided to laugh randomly while I was in the kitchen. Freaked @SnootyJuicer and I out. I thought a kid was laughing behind me. pic.twitter.com/6dblzkiQHp — CaptHandlebar (@CaptHandlebar) February 23, 2018 “Owners of Amazon Echo devices with the voice-enabled assistant Alexa have been pretty much …
“ On 10 January, a pedestrian in San Francisco’s Mission District ran across the street to confront a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle that was waiting for people to cross the road, according to an incident report filed by the car company. The pedestrian was “shouting”, the report states, and “struck the left side of …
Gary Turner on Twitter: “Not shitting you, but I actually just rescued a robot in distress on the street after someone had tipped it over. This is one of those weird dreams, right.…”
“I think society is coming around to the idea that it’s not a gender binary, that it is not one or the other, that it can be anything in between,” Mr. Jeffries said. “It doesn’t even necessarily have to be all human, and that technology isn’t necessarily the other alternative — that it can be species and creatures …
“ “It’s a bit dehumanising, never being able to get through to an employer,” says Robert, a plumber in his 40s whom I met at a weekly jobs club in London. He uses job boards and recruiters to find temporary work. Harry, 24, has been searching for a job for four months. In retail “just about every job opening” …
Traces of warmth: thermal images of London’s homeless Photographer Grey Hutton has spent the winter photographing homeless people with a thermal imaging camera, offering a new perspective to the growing problem of homelessness in the UK, and highlighting the hardship that so many face on the streets of London …
Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon? — Krebs on Security Reames is a credited author on Amazon by way of several commodity industry books, although none of them made anywhere near the amount Amazon is reporting to the Internal Revenue Service. Nor does he have a personal account with Createspace…
Church spires to help spread the digital word | World news | The Guardian Following an agreement between the Church of England and the government, churches in internet black spots are set to boost broadband, mobile and wifi connectivity for local communities. Under the deal, rural churches will incorporate …
Neural Network learning to generate cat images (model G32up-c) - YouTube via Cat-Generator on GitHub
via Joseph A. Howley on Twitter: “Dystopia is here, and increasingly more evenly distributed”
will knight on Twitter: ““Human Uber,” developed in Japan, provides a way to attend events remotely using another person’s body. “It’s surprisingly natural” says its inventor, Jin Rekimoto of Sony #emtechasia…
Strava Heatmap - 1 billion athletic activities by users of the Strava tracking app, visualised. From top: Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory), Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), and Baghdad’s Green Zone (Iraq).
Asking Alexa how you look is a bit like asking it who’s winning an argument, or to rate your self worth. It’s a subjective question that depends on context and is laden with nuance. Checking back with an algorithm that gives you a percentage, like a school assignment, assumes it’s possible or desirable to look 100%, …