The Financial Times just coined the phrase “the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter,” which honestly is the best turn of phrase I’ve heard since enshitification. What’s going on is that X (the aforementioned site) recently released an update that makes it incredibly easy to generate, well, deepfake porn based on real images. As
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You may have heard that about a month ago scientists at Berkeley and UW announced they have “discovered” a new never-before-seen color, which they call olo. (Here’s a quick video overview from their paper.) Before I get into what they did, here’s a quick refresher on how we see color. White light is made up
A few years ago my brother was giving a talk to new graduates going out to do research in digital media and asked if I had any axioms, mottos, or stories from the MIT Media Lab in the late 90s that I might give. Here are the four I sent him. Does it make toast?
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Just a reminder that we are now at the point on the technology curve where scammers are using AI to impersonate family members in distress in realtime phone calls.
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Director Karen X. Cheng just posted a cool video where she uses OpenAI’s DALL-E to generate different outfits and then applies them to a video of her walking down the street. DALL-E is designed for images, not video, so after generating the individual key frames she used the (currently free) program EbSynth to map those
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My brother recently gave an academic talk on augmented reality use in museums, using AR as the medium. Museums are always the first application of AR people think of, and it often doesn’t work in practice as well as you’d expect. I think Geoff has a lot of insight into where it does and doesn’t
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My brother, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, with a very cool (and very meta) presentation on augmented reality… [Migrated from Google+]
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I just re-read the post on “The Anatomy of a Notification” that +Cliff L. Biffle pointed me to a couple months ago, and I’m still struck by how spot-on he is. [Migrated from Google+]
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Wow — over 100,000 people have registered for a free online Intro to AI class to be taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig this Fall. Kudos to Stanford for trying out this experiment in education on a mass scale. They’re also offering introductory classes in Databases in Machine Learning. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Fall 2011
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I try to avoid using my Inbox as a to-do list, but this still looks like a handy little script… (Originally shared by Ben Bederson) Scripting Gmail to snooze emails (so they come back later) is cool! (Actually, scripting Gmail is cool).http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html But I bet Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) doesn’t like it so much. On the other