deep learning
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What If Captain Picard’s Star Trek: Nemesis Clone Was Just Patrick Stewart, Instead Of Bald Baby Tom Hardy?
Star Trek: Nemesis is a nightmare of a movie, but one of its slightly better nightmares is the bonkers performance a young, spectacularly shaved Tom Hardy gives as Shinzon, the villain of the film and also the Romulan-made clone of Jean-Luc Picard. But what if instead of just inviting us to believe that Patrick Stewart…
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This Sad Robot Made From Random Twigs Has To Teach Itself To Get Around
Watching Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS robot backflip its way through a parkour course is impressive, but those seemingly effortless maneuvers actually represent thousands of hours of unseen development and testing to perfect. While this robot made from random branches struggling to crawl across the floor is comparatively sad to watch, it represents the future of robotics…
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This AI Fakes Footage To Make It Look Like You Have Bruno Mars’ Dance Moves
By now we have a lot of worrying examples of how AI-powered image processing software can flawlessly alter faces, or make someone appear to say something they didn’t. But there are other, perhaps under-explored uses for this technology, such as trying to fake a video of you dancing so it looks as though you have…
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This Neural Network Instant Camera Turns Everything You Shoot Into Cartoon Doodles
Photographers who still shoot on film claim they like the lo-fi, grainy aesthetics of the medium. But by that logic, they should be throwing hundreds of dollars at Dan Macnish, who created a custom instant camera that converts what the camera’s lens sees into crude, stick figure doodles.