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Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have deployed…
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Photographers already face an uphill battle in trying to preventing people from using their digital photos without…
An instructor of mine once compared mixing a song to baking a cake. The various tracks are the ingredients, and once…
Photographers who still shoot on film claim they like the lo-fi, grainy aesthetics of the medium. But by that logic,…
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By now, you’ve probably seen the satirical posts where someone claims to have “forced a bot” to watch thousands of…
The information age has generated far more data than humanity can ever hope to manually process, but with the help of…
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The technical skills of programmer John Carmack helped create the 3D world of Doom, the first-person shooter that took…
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The same way a human only knows as much as they’ve studied or experienced, an artificial intelligence is only as smart…
When you look at fur, the light has taken an extended journey before hitting your eye, bouncing around lots of fur…
The sky as a great black ceiling full of blood. Hagrid’s shrieking furniture. Harry dipping Hermione in hot sauce.…
A lot of people are banking on a future ruled by artificial intelligence, but in its current form, AI can still be…
As you gather round the fireplace this Christmas and your smug second cousin decides it’s time to drunkenly berate…
Last month Nvidia revealed its work on using competing neural networks to generate random, but convincing, photos of…
In 2015, Google released DeepDream, a bonkers, art-generating neural net users put to work rendering everything from…
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