“A new, AI-powered selfie generating tool called strmr.com is making the rounds on social media, allowing users to create incredibly stylized, beautiful and handsome versions of their own faces by simply feeding the algorithm around five to ten previously taken […]
Ben Thompson of Stratechery is one of the most notable writers on the business of technology. He’s the creator of aggregation theory, which has been useful in understanding the centralizing forces of the internet. Now with AI, given its recent […]
Stable Diffusion is an AI tool for generating images. It’s super fun to play with. It isn’t easy to prompt the right image (side note: play with it yourself here). Lexica is a search engine for over 10 million images and […]
Type in a sentence and the output is an AI-generated image that’s pretty darn good. “Computers are getting better at doing what humans can do, including creating art from scratch.” | learn more
“According to the South China Morning Post, a fully-automated cloning process now exists, and it apparently works like a charm. In fact, in a slightly brutal blow to human scientists, the AI-powered system is alleged to have drastically reduced the […]
The company had a half-baked plan to deploy armed drones in schools. “After several years of work, the company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill,” the departing members write. “We have lost faith […]
Researchers are building toward a world where, “AI tools can swiftly analyze diagnostic imaging to deliver immediate risk reports to patients.” | learn more
A lesson in emergent AI behavior. “Among Skyrim players, you’ll occasionally see this tip: if you see a wild fox, follow it and you’ll be led to treasure. Sometime shortly after shipping, we saw this going around online, and an […]
“The game was simple. Two wolves and six sheep would be placed at random within a game space by the computer. The wolves would have to catch all the sheep in 20 seconds while avoiding some boulders within the space.” | learn […]
“You read that right: an insurance company in 2021 is defending itself against charges, circulated widely in the AI ethics Twitter dogpile on their original thread, that they’re using the Late Renaissance pseudosciences of phrenology and physiognomy on their customers.” | learn […]