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Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

October 1 2022, 5:51am | Comments
Bookmark Holly Herndon on the power of machine learning and developing her “digital…
The FADER Interview is a brand new podcast series in which the world’s most exciting musicians talk with the staff of The FADER about their latest projects.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium
In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims
Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark False Futurism — Real Life
By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace
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November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
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From floating ‘3D street art’ to a talking Henri Rousseau painting, Meta’s vision of the future is drained of all imagination When I was a kid, I had a book about…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt
‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du…

June 8 2021, 11:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American
Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Too Human — Real Life
As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
I wonder if the reason we keep on cycling back to hope about cool things like VR is that for all the tech news and our fetishizing about our touch devices,…

July 22 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg
I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation
Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now -…
In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices -…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have soared in value over the past year, thanks to continued interest from a range of investors.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

December 13 2017, 4:26am | Comments
Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic
Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark 'Blade Runner 2049': Digital Sean Young Is Latest in Hollywood’s Digital Human…
Sean Young’s replicant Rachael is iconic to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner — which made it all the more challenging when director Denis Villeneuve tasked veteran VFX supervisor John Nelson…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1
“ Ido plan to bring back my father,” Ray Kurzweil says. He is standing in the anemic light of a storage unit, his frame dwarfed by towers of cardboard boxes and…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Stories - The Atlantic
Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative? A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees - The…
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be. There is considerable enthusiasm for technologies that allow people to simulate an engagement with a physical world.

February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Monkeys mourn robot baby in groundbreaking new BBC show
Monkeys have been shown to mourn a robot baby they accepted as one of their own. In a new BBC show, Spy In The Wild, the monkeys gather around the artificial…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Life as a drone operator: 'Ever step on ants and never give…
When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark She Kills People From 7,850 Miles Away - The Daily Beast
Anne crawled out of bed in her North Las Vegas house around 10 p.m. and started to get ready for her shift. She pulled her chestnut hair into a bun and…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark Phys.Org Mobile: Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone
Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone Apr 14, Technology/Hi Tech & Innovation Full size image Credit: Green Brain Project The team of researchers working on the The Green Brain…

April 23 2015, 12:26am | Comments
Bookmark How Photography's 'Decisive Moment' Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality |…
Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it.

February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments
Bookmark It took 2 years to build this functioning word processor in Minecraft
If it exists in the real world, you can be someone has figured out a way to build it in Minecraft. A Minecraft builder has created a word processor, complete with keyboard and monitor,…

January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Second Life Real Estate Purchase Goes Horribly Wrong
Second Life has always been one of the strangest virtual spaces. It's an odd mixture of totally earnest role players, professional sellers and weird-as-hell trolls. And buying or selling something in…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments
Bookmark Journey to the Centre of Google Earth - Simon Sellars
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue, May 2014. Thank you to NyMusikk…

June 23 2014, 4:53am | Comments

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