Our societies overrate Design (Engineering, Optimisation, Control, etc.) and underrate the simple enjoyment of the eternally emerging present moment.
"There are two main problems in A.I: What is A and what is I" - Paul Dirac
Advanced Pattern Recognition Test. #ML
These images are NOT generated by a GAN or any other machine learning model - but by a human artist. Notice the complex play with high level semantics. Machines will struggle doing such things for many years to come. #ML #Generative
Run the BigGAN generator in your browser:
https://research.google.com/seedbank/seed/5629842393399296
The truly mind blowing thing about the BigGAN images isn't that they are generated with machine learning or that they look real. The mind blowing thing is that @GoogleAI allows anyone to generate them for free in the browser using their GPUs. Says much about the state of compute
"An Overview of National AI Strategies": https://medium.com/politics-ai/an-overview-of-national-ai-strategies-2a70ec6edfd #ML #Politics
"Can AI be creative?": 20min talk by BBC R&D unit which "built an AI that could call the shots for an evening, drawing on the archive and user data to create an evening of entertainment"
"China’s brightest children are being recruited to develop AI ‘killer bots’": https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2172141/chinas-brightest-children-are-being-recruited-develop-ai-killer
"Some of china’s smartest teen students selected for 'experimental programme for intelligent weapons systems' at the Beijing Institute of Tech". Is this a scene from Akira? Psi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film)
What the vast majority of "how to teach your dog a new behaviour" guides don't mention: Education is a bi-directional process. While you train the dog, the dog trains you. #ML
"Successful interaction design requires a shift from seeing the machinery to seeing the lives of the people using it"
- Terry Winograd (The Design of Interaction, 1997)
Evolutionary Space Invaders: "shoot aliens as a genetic algorithm modifies them": https://github.com/victorqribeiro/invaderz Demo: https://victorribeiro.com/invaderz #ML
"Cybernetics & the design of the user experience of AI systems": http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2018/cybernetics-and-the-design-of-the-user-experience-of-ai-systems #ML #HCI
"Reconstruction of visual images from human brain activity measured by fMRI". Created using the techniques from the paper "End-to-end deep image reconstruction from human brain activity": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/02/27/272518
The "Situationist International" social/art movement (1957-1972) was Subversive, Political & highly Semantical. Made me think about current so called "A.I Art", which is mostly void of those things - focused on PixelPorn. Why?
Guy Debord in 1967 on Machine Learning:
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ
"how to become filthy rich fast, by exploiting artificially intelligent humans" #ML
"In Hungary, Latvia, & Greece, travelers will be given an automated lie-detection test—by an animated AI border agent. The system, called iBorderCtrl": https://gizmodo.com/an-ai-lie-detector-is-going-to-start-questioning-travel-1830126881 #ML #Politics
A case of AI hype gone horribly wrong. Using Fauxtomation to justify racist refugee policies.