Dark web offerings could commoditize deep fake technology
— Read on www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-warn-of-voice/
Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage
To make The Followers, Depoorter started with EarthCam, a network of publicly accessible webcams around the world, to record a month’s worth of footage in tourist attractions like New York City’s Times Square and Dublin’s Temple Bar Pub. Then he enlisted an artificial intelligence (A.I.) bot, which scraped public Instagram photos taken in those locations, and facial-recognition software, which paired the Instagram images with the real-time surveillance footage. Depoorter calls himself a “surveillance artist,” and this isn’t his first project using open-source webcam footage or A.I. Last year, for a project called The Flemish Scrollers, he paired livestream video of Belgian government proceedings with an A.I. bot he built to determine how often lawmakers were scrolling on their phones during official meetings.
Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage – Slashdot
DALL·E Now Available in Beta
A hacker news comment linked to this…. worth checking. Lol. http://dailywrong.com/
DALL·E Now Available in Beta
— Read on openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-in-beta/
Is Debating AI Sentience a Dangerous Distraction? – Slashdot
Is Debating AI Sentience a Dangerous Distraction? – Slashdot
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/401148
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine? – Slashdot
“We tend to think that the internet is a communications network we use to speak to one another — but in a sense, we’re not doing anything of the sort. Instead, we are the ones being spoken through.”
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/400136
The ‘Dead Internet’ Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI – Slashdot
the Atlantic shares a compelling argument from a forum poster arguing that their very presence in this discussion proves they must be a bot. “If I was real I’m pretty sure I’d be out there living each day to the fullest and experiencing everything I possibly could with every given moment of the relatively infinitesimal amount of time I’ll exist for instead of posting on the internet about nonsense.”
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/389925
Human-like robot creates creepy self-portraits | Live Science
“These images are meant to unsettle,” Aidan Meller, the gallery owner behind the creation of Ai-Da, told The Guardian. “They are meant to raise questions about where we are going. What is our human role if so much can be replicated through technology?”
— Read on www.livescience.com/amp/robot-artist-self-portraits.html
NFT art: Sophia the Robot ‘self-portrait’ sells for almost $700K at Nifty Gateway auction – CNN
A “self-portrait” by humanoid robot Sophia, who “interpreted” a depiction of her own face, has sold at auction for over $688,000.
— Read on www.cnn.com/style/amp/nft-art-sophia-robot-self-portrait-scn/index.html
What Is Consciousness? Some New Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings
So what about physical space? The traditional view had been that space was something that could to a large extent just be described as a coherent mathematical object. But in our models of physics, space is actually made of an immense number of discrete elements whose pattern of interconnections evolves in a complex and computationally irreducible way. But it’s much like with the gas molecules. If an observer is going to form a coherent view of what’s going on, and if they have bounded computational capabilities, then this puts definite constraints on what behavior they will perceive. And it turns out that those constraints yield exactly relativity.
In other words, for the “atoms of space”, relativity is the result of the interplay between underlying computational irreducibility and the requirement that the observer has a coherent view of what’s going on.
— Read on writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/what-is-consciousness-some-new-perspectives-from-our-physics-project/
Driving innovation with emotional intelligence – MIT Technology Review
EQ as a differentiator
Even as the world rapidly embraces more and more complex technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), it’s still the human connection that gets our attention. That makes emotional intelligence (EQ) more important than ever. In a world gone digital, it’s crucial to design products and lead people in the analog world, based on our humanity. Those who understand this will more effectively inspire and lead their staffs, please their customers, and spark more innovation.
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/09/1020470/driving-innovation-with-emotional-intelligence/amp/
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