The servers for Jibo the social robot are apparently shutting down. Multiple owners report that Jibo himself has been delivering the news: "Maybe someday when robots are way more advanced than today, and everyone has them in their homes, you can tell yours that I said hello." pic.twitter.com/Sns3xAV33h — Dylan …
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In Reuben Wu’s Photography, a View of Another World - Artsy His goal, as with many of his projects, revolved around depicting places that appear free from a specific time or location. Lighting his scenes with drones, Wu illustrates the strength of the natural world, and “the magnitude of of time” that it took for …
“ “An algorithm that scans resumes might say for example, ‘Oh, I notice when people use this kind of font, it has a high correlation with being productive, so this is the important feature.’ Is it? I don’t know, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but [the algorithm] could do things like that and it’s hard to understand …
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars - The New York Times In one of the more harrowing episodes, a man waved a .22-caliber revolver at a Waymo vehicle and the emergency backup driver at the wheel. He told the police that he “despises” driverless cars, referring to the killing of a …
I never tire of looking at videos of Chinese click farms. It's just so surreal to see hundreds of phones playing the same video for the purposes of fake engagment. pic.twitter.com/bHAGLqRqVb — Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) December 10, 2018
WTF... does anyone else see the child teleport? pic.twitter.com/P0ju9J9cby — @realTewkesburyBC (@TewkesburyLeak) December 12, 2018 If you watch the woman’s face at the same time the boy appears, you can see her expression morph into a smile. This technique is known as a Morph Cut, a feature added to Adobe …
stml : The US Postal Service Must Pay an Artist $3.5 Million After Accidentally Printing His Version of the Statue of Liberty on Billions of Stamps | artnet News A judge ordered the US Postal Service to pay sculptor Robert Davidson $3.5 million in compensation after the government agency accidentally printed …
chelsea adelaine hassler on Twitter : “Someone hacked the internet kiosk in front of my apartment and it’s been playing the ice cream truck song for hours”.
Instagram star with over 100,000 followers caught photoshopping himself into stock photos. Source: Petapixel
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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 …
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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 …