MIT Technology Review
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
6 min read · Jun 11th · Need more data for deep learning? Synthetic data companies will make it for you.
Takeaways
mischiefusa.com
mischief.
1 min read · Jun 12th · RepresentUs is a bi-partisan organization dedicated to fighting political corruption. Its research revealed (as anyone watching the news can see) that American politics has become increasingly…
The Daily Beast
Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok
2 min read · Feb 26th · Be afraid. Be very afraid.
musebycl.io
Rise of the Avatars: Their Future in Gaming, Fashion and Music
5 min read · Feb 2nd · Our virtual selves are just getting warmed up
Gizmodo
Microsoft Landed a Patent to Turn You Into a Chatbot
4 min read · Jan 23rd · What if the most significant measure of your life’s labors has nothing to do with your lived experiences but merely your unintentional generation of a realistic digital clone of yourself, a specimen…
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min read · Jan 5th · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
webaverse.com
Webaverse
1 min read · 2020-12-18 · A universe of apps build with IPFS, Ethereum, and WebXR
Business Wire
Roblox Acquires Loom.ai, Accelerating Development of Avatar Realism and Emotions
1 min read · 2020-12-14 · Roblox, a global online platform bringing millions of people together through play, announced today the acquisition of Loom.ai, a privately-held compa
debugger.medium.com
Replace Your Face With an A.I. Twin to Trick Facial Recognition
10 min read · 2020-11-25 · Try the Anonymizer tool to create a fake face that looks like you
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
4 min read · 2020-11-21 · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is…
Bloomberg
These Influencers Are Computer Generated. But They're Making Real Money.
2020-10-30 · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.
gametrends.gg
Game Trends #3 - Virtual Streamers
2 min read · 2020-10-29 · Live Streaming meets Gorillaz
The New Yorker
Zoom Fatigue and the New Ways to Party
5 min read · 2020-09-17 · Virtual-reality coffee shops and party-simulation apps are aiming to help you gossip and mingle more realistically online.
Bloomberg
Virtual Star of Porsche Ads Gets Real Venture Backing
3 min read · 2020-09-04 · Aww Inc., a Japanese startup whose virtual influencers have graced advertising campaigns for the likes of Porsche and IKEA has raised $1 million in a seed round from Coral Capital.
designboom
bas sterwijk uses AI to create portraits of famous historical figures
1 min read · 2020-07-11
