The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
- Douglas Huebler
Stafford Beer's initial sketch of how Marx's Capital could be mapped with cybernetic language. #Politics #Automation #Augmentation
"TreeGAN: Syntax-Aware Sequence Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks":
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07582 #ML #Generative
"Automatic Generation of Constrained Furniture Layouts":
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10939v2 #ML #Generative
High-Resolution Image Synthesis and Semantic Manipulation with Conditional GANs
Cross-Lingual Cross-Platform Rumor Verification Pivoting on Multimedia Content:
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-machine-cross-lingual-cross-platform-rumor-verification.html - paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04911 #ML #SE
From the perspective of climate change mitigation, a radical reduction of global economic activity would be great news. With this in mind, is the escalating US/China trade-war (and the resulting looming global economic depression) an excellent development?
"Everybody Dance Now": https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07371 "Method for motion transfer: given a video of a person dancing we can transfer that performance to a novel target after only a few min of the target performing standard moves". #ML #Generative
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo. #Music
The single most important component of any art/media artefact is the person who perceives it. All value, meaning and magic happens inside of you, not "out there" - otherwise it would just be a bunch of noise.
"Looking at my career I noticed that in essence I just keep building the same stool, in a widely disparate number of ways. The stool has three legs: Socialisation, Storytelling and it's the Mechanics that bring those things together. That's all." - Jordan Weisman
Jordan Weisman: Tech is not what games are about.
The separation of church and state was important for human progress. Would "the separation finance & state" and "the separation science & state" be even more important?
If you want to be an entrepreneur in the Web, AI or Blockchain space, the paths to success are clear (funding, biz models, role models etc.). If you want to become an entrepreneur in the green/eco space & do something about climate change, the paths are very unclear. Why is that?
The Institute for the Future: http://www.iftf.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Future
Prediction: Before 2021, the existence of the US "social score" system will be made public. It combines all available data about citizens (social, crime, health, finance, location, etc.) in one database, which is used to predict the value of citizens. Low score = No Fly etc.
"Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness'":
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/21/facebook-rates-user-trustworthiness/
"This painting was created by a neural network based AI" ...and many instinctively say "oh, that's amazing! Magic! Retweet!", no matter how likeable the actual art is.
In reality, this painting was created by "Congo" - a Chimpanzee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_%28chimpanzee%29
Artificial Intelligence in 2018 is still 99% mythology & 1% technology.