Scammers using AI to impersonate loved ones
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.
Media Technology
Using DALL-E on video
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 …
Augmented reality in museums
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 …
Meta-presentation on augmented reality
My brother, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, with a very cool (and very meta) presentation on augmented reality… [Migrated from Google+]
The Anatomy of a Notification (Rands In Repose)
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+]
Free Online Intro to AI class
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 …
Gmail Snooze
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 …
SynthCam
I’ve started playing with the free SynthCam iPhone app… here’s the description from the app’s webpage (marclevoy): “Cell phones have a small aperture, hence a large depth of field. In other words, most of the scene is in focus at once. However, if you record video while moving the phone slightly, and you add the …
Adding irony to injury for Kodachrome
Reporting on Kodak’s retiring of their famed Kodachrome film, NPR’s All Things Considered, Melissa Block interviewed photographer Steve McCurry (emphasis mine):
I’m looking at one of your most iconic images, this is the photo of a young Afghan girl… she’s wearing a brick-red head scarf and there’s a green background and her eyes are just popping off the screen…
I think that just about says it all. You can also view an online gallery of what some of the great photos taken with Kodachrome look like after they’ve been scanned, digitized, and re-rendered on whatever computer monitor you happen to have. Such vivid colors!
PVI buys E Ink for ~$215 Million
Taiwanese display company Prime View International announced today it will be purchasing E Ink for about $215. PVI has been a long-time partner of E Ink, and supplies the backplane for the Amazon Kindle and Sony’s eReader, which use E Ink’s ink technology.