Fascinating essay about AI.

I recommend and use Notifier service to convert email subscriptions to RSS, so I can read things in my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) the way news are intended to be read. Specifically, a fire columns from Mexican newspaper El Norte / Reforma / Mural.

They are adding this new feature that allows summarizing an RSS feed using ChatGPT. This is a really smart application for AI. I haven’t tried it but I can see how it can be very useful to many.

Every Pixar film tackles a different technical problem.

1. "Toy Story" (1995): realistic lighting surfaces like plastic and metal toys
2. "Finding Nemo" (2003): underwater scenes
3. "The Incredibles" (2004): realistic human characters and fabric simulation.
4. "Cars" (2006): large-scale environments.
5. "Wall-E" (2008): realistic dust
6. "Brave" (2012): hair and fur simulation
   …

It’s super interesting that for this movie the challenge was to animate the fire characters realistically (as fire) but also recognizable (as characters). Using AI is a very neat approach.

One of the best uses of AI/ML I’ve seen. Actually I’m not sure it’s uses those technologies.

Clickbait is one of the scourges of the internet. Like with spam filters, we have to invent our way out of a misuse of technology. Good use for AI, and a great feature for Artifact (I still haven’t even tried it).

Another impressive use of machine learning: create a depth map of a photograph, which is then used to adjust lighting in 3d space in a realistic manner.

1-click installer of Stable Diffusion for macOS.

Stable Diffusion feels essentially like magic to us 2022 cavemen.

Cool technology and a big improvement over dubbing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
― Arthur C. Clarke

ML is doing such cool things.

Another machine learning toy.

Just keep hitting refresh.
Sort of scary.

Wow what a project. Needs more bins though.

Open source library for splitting up different components of a song, like vocals, drums, bass...

Built in Python using Tensorflow. I tried it, works really well.

Very well made, very convincing deep fake. This technology is advancing quickly. It’d be fun to play with it one day.

Back when I was in college, IBM had this thing Robocode (https://robocode.sourceforge.io). It was a little video game with fighting robots. There was a pretty simple Java API to control them and you were supposed to write code to control it and fight others.

This is the 2018 version, and it looks amazing.

The stuff being done with deep-learning is incredible, and we are only in the beginning stages for this technology.

This is very cool. We are only getting started here: we can't yet imagine all the applications in which deep-learning is going to be applied to.

Great and accessible overview.

I want.