The Science of the Butterfly Effect
The Science of the Butterfly Effect
Google's Relightables system makes it possible to customize lighting on characters in real time or re-light them in any given scene or environment. (Project Page)
Amazon’s AWS DeepComposer is peak not-knowing-what-AI-is-for (cdm)
Technically this has been available in some form since the mid-80s and is of very limited practical use, but … all on board on the "creative AI" bullshit hype train!
Interpolating Anime Videos to 60FPS with DAIN. (via reddit)
DAIN: Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation. Code: https://github.com/baowenbo/DAIN
Quasicrystals - Israeli Found New Form of Matter Imagined in Islamic Art (2011)
"This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals, metallic alloys with atoms arranged in orderly, infinite, aperiodic, crystal-like patterns with theoretically forbidden (typically 5 fold) symmetry. This form of matter was believed to be impossible to create."
Modelling urban networks using Variational Autoencoders
“VAEs capable of capturing key high-level urban network metrics using low-dimensional vectors and generating new urban forms of complexity matching the cities captured in the street network data”
Wild Silkworms Produce Proteins Primed for Bioprinting. A mix of silkworms’ proteins acts as a scaffold for 3-D-printed tissues and organs.
A Virtual Beings Summit Is Taking Place Today In Hollywood.
"The second Virtual Beings Summit is being held today at the United Talent Agency Theater in Beverly Hills, L.A. The one-day event features demos and presentations by a range of top professionals in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector." << The bullshit factor is very high! Investment banker & Marketing people screaming AI, argh..
Subcutanean: a novel where each copy is different.
A print-on-demand horror novel that changes for each new reader: no two copies are the same. The author talks about his techniques in his blog. #Generative #Art
"At Replica, we’ve developed an AI that can replicate the human voice with a few minutes of speech": https://blog.usejournal.com/introducing-replica-studios-5afbb4455818
"You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours": https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613645/ai-fake-news-deepfakes-misinformation-united-nations/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01946 #Generative #ML #Creativity
Human Settlements in a Digital Universe: The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Project: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/2019/09/no-mans-sky/ #Generative #Games
A public university has an official archeology program for the content of a game which generates all its content with procedural algorithms. Sisyphus and all other disillusion masochists would be very proud of these "scientists".
The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20961788/us-government-ai-copyright-patent-trademark-office-notice-artificial-intelligence #Generative #ML #Creativity #Bots
#Comment: A far more interesting question is if angels and disembodied spirits can own the content they create. Generative copyright is peak late capitalist madness at its finest - the works of greedy petty lost souls. I spoke previously about related topics here & here.
Deezer source separation library including pretrained models: https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e code: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter #Generative #ML #Music
James Dean Reborn in CGI for Vietnam War Action-Drama: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/afm-james-dean-reborn-cgi-vietnam-war-action-drama-1252703 #Generative #Art
Commentary: CGI James Dean Provokes Backlash, But Animated Characters Based On Actors Are Nothing New: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/cgi-james-dean-provokes-backlash-but-animated-characters-based-on-actors-are-nothing-new-182044.html
Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis: https://nvlabs.github.io/few-shot-vid2vid/ #ML #Generative
GPT-2: 1.5B Release: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/ Reading the following made me really question the sanity of these researchers and/or humanity. Comedy Bullshit Alarm!
"Our partners found that extremist groups can use GPT-2 for misuse, specifically by fine-tuning GPT-2 models on four ideological positions: white supremacy, Marxism, jihadist Islamism, and anarchism. CTEC demonstrated that it’s possible to create models that can generate synthetic propaganda for these ideologies."
Deepfakes Paranoia Considered Pointless: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/deepfakes-paranoia-considered-pointless #Generative #ML #Politics
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material: http://news.mit.edu/2019/fractal-patterns-quantum-1016 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12502-0 #Generative