Artificial Intelligence
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Science & Tech
1920s Marseille, London, And Tokyo Shine In Newly Restored And Upscaled Footage
Photos and videos are really like rudimentary time machines, capturing moments that we can carry with us into the future.…
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Legacy
[Weeklies] Happy Holidays and Artificial Séances
Like I said in my horrible rant last week, I want to post more and get back into things. And…
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Science & Tech
Scientists Taught Mini-Brains How to Play Exactly Half Of Pong, While Rats Tried Doom
What’s the very first video game you remember playing? For me, I have vague memories of Pitfall! on the Atari…
AI-Sourced Patents A No-Go (For Now), Says U.S. Judge
If you happen to be an inventor and an artificial intelligence, you might want to hold off on attempting to…
GPT-2 Religion AI Twitter Bot Believes It’s A God
Looks like John Murray Spear’s God Machine has some new competition. A story over at Digital Trends highlights the peculiar…
Seth Shostak: Expect AI, Not ‘Little Green Men’
Seth Shostak recently published an article over at The Guardian suggesting that extraterrestrial life won’t be “squishy” like us, but…
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Science & Tech
Old 80s Game Show Gets AI Upscaling Treatment
I can’t get enough of these 4K AI remasters of old TV shows and home movies. Here’s one of Match…
AI Competes Against College Students In Essay Writing Exercise
Can an AI language model write an essay good enough to get a passing grade from a human college professor?…
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Science & Tech
Microsoft Wants to Simulate the Dead With AI Chatbots
The future is an AI nightmare, and here’s a Microsoft patent that shows why. The company just patented AI chatbots…
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Science & Tech
Researchers Convert 2D Images Into Detailed 3D Models
Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Southern California, in collaboration with Facebook’s Reality Labs and AI Research, showed…