matthewball.vc
The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
20+ min · · There’s a reason every Big Tech CEO has a well-worn copy of “Snow Crash” in their office. · Shared by 1032, including Casey Newton, Chris Messina, Kevin Kelly, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Katja Evertz, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Hugo Amsellem, yeon, Kent Bye (Voices of VR), Bill Johnston, sircharlsxavier, Sumomi, Elena Neira, Phillip Murphy, Jonathan Kogan, Linda Liukas, simon-zaugg
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min · · 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. · Shared by 1029, including Vicki Davis, Mario Klingemann💧💦, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Sam Altman, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Leo Polovets, Soumith Chintala, Ilya Sutskever, MIT CSAIL, Jane Manchun Wong, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Josh Wolfe, Randy Olson, Kevin Kelly, Chris Messina, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, danabramov.bsky.social, Vinod Khosla, Carla Gentry 🎶
New York Magazine
How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
20+ min · · Turns out, a lot of it, actually. · Shared by 852, including Justin Jackson, Guy Kawasaki, Martin Stabe, Thomas Power, Perry Marshall, Josep M. Ganyet, Marsha Collier, Mark Kaigwa, Stephan Spencer, Brad Brooks, Liliane Ferrari ™, Azeem Azhar, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Mark Little, Jane, Oliver Reichenstein, Scott McLeod, Vinny Lingham, Kevin Kelly
The Believer
Ghosts
20+ min · · 7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious.… · Shared by 844, including Gabriele, Chris Messina, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Mathew Ingram, Ian M Calvert, Neil Lee, Arielle Pardes, Howard Getson, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
4 min · · 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… · Shared by 701, including Martin Ford, John Koetsier, Chris Messina, Joshua Benton, Trent Walton, AI, Brian Solis, Sean Gardner, Lenore Skenazy, Bilal Zuberi, Paul Ekman, Christoph Trappe, Eric Topol, Kashmir Hill, Gerd Leonhard, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Tom D'Amico, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Guy Kawasaki, Nouriel Roubini
NPR
That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake
10 min · · Stanford researchers uncovered more than 1,000 of these LinkedIn profiles. A technology that has been used to promote misinformation online has now entered the corporate world. · Shared by 274, including Digg, Harold Sinnott, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Esther Schindler, Thomas Power, Danny Goodwin, Matt Navarra, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Chris Messina, Brooke B. Sellas, Mark Kaigwa, Dr. Alec Couros, Renee DiResta, Marsha Collier, Klaus Eck, Jessica Gioglio
WIRED
Welcome to Botnet, Where Everyone’s an Influencer
3 min · · A social network populated entirely by adoring bots aims to mimic the experience of being a celebrity online—trolls not included. · Shared by 168, including Thomas Power, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Luca Like, Neeraj K Agrawal, Chris Messina, andrew chen, Stephanie A Kowalski, Gregory B. Sadler 🦉 (no blue check, just owl), rogerverhoeven, Jansnet, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Sprout Social, Liliane Ferrari ™
TechCrunch
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
2 min · · Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of… · Shared by 150, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Andreas Klinger 🏝, Claudio Perez Gamayo, Bjorn Larsen, Mike Ivars, Florian Hanke 🍎, Jose Luis Calvo, tektology, Chris Messina, Ronald van Loon, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 瑞拿頭, Chintan Shah, Builtvisible
Ars Technica
I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552
16+ min · · I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video. · Shared by 129, including Matthias Lampe, Kevin Kelly, Dr. Alec Couros, TonyParisi.eth, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, John Danaher, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Jennifer Ouellette, Gengo 🦁, John Koetsier, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Balaji, Steve Faktor
TNW
Fraudsters deepfake CEO's voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000
2 min · · Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds. · Shared by 126, including Josh Olszewicz, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Matthias Lampe, Aamir Raz, Chris Messina, Ste Davies, Chris Skinner, Ser Jeff Garzik, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Peter Todd/mempoolfullrbf=1, Michael Gisiger, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, Brian Roemmele, Andy Beal, TNW Top Stories, Carl Morris, Courtney Bolton ★, Jose Luis Calvo, David Cohn, Josep M. Ganyet
BuzzFeed News
A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That's 100% Automated
4 min · · A data engineer who created a 100% automated Instagram account to earn free meals at restaurants looking for promotion is offering his services to clients too. · Shared by 119, including Adam Tinworth, Mark Kaigwa, Mike Ivars, Marsha Collier, rogerverhoeven, fernand0, George M 🇪🇺, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Matt Navarra, Oliver Ewinger
The New York Times
These Influencers Aren’t Flesh and Blood, Yet Millions Follow Them
6 min · · From Calvin Klein to KFC, the rise of the computer-generated influencer on social media. · Shared by 117, including Esther Schindler, Raphael Bratschi, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Anthony Hamelle, Richard MacManus, Craig Brown, PhD, Mark Kaigwa, Antonio Vieira Santos, Michael Grupe, Brandon Uttley, Matthias Kahr, Alexia Bonatsos, Charles Baldwin, Balaji, Klaus Eck, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Chris Messina
Unreal Engine
A first look at Unreal Engine 5
· Get a glimpse of new and improved real-time rendering features currently in development. · Shared by 108, including Joscha Bach, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Chris Messina, Kent Bye (Voices of VR), @rastrau@mstdn.social, Guillermo Rauch, Antonio Vieira Santos, CyberCodeTwins, Joe Lencioni, Yana O, Yoav Ganbar (🥑 Builder.io/Qwik)
MIT Technology Review
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
6 min · · Need more data for deep learning? Synthetic data companies will make it for you. · Shared by 103, including Albert Ràfols, Tamara McCleary, John Hagel, John Nosta, hiten.eth, Fabrizio Bianchi, Chris Messina, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Brian Roemmele
sidekik.ai
Sidekik - An AI version of Yourself.
2 min · · Create an artificial intelligence version of Yourself who enhances Your life. · Shared by 102, including Chris Messina, ANGELS_ONLY, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Patrick Sanwikarja, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Connecticut SEO, rogerverhoeven, يونس بن عمارة, Daniel Bentes, Florian Hanke 🍎, Fabricio Teixeira
synthesia.io
Empowering Storytellers with AI
1 min · · Synthesia brings entirely new AI-driven capabilities to content creators. Fuelled by advancements in machine learning we push technological boundaries and empower storytellers to realise creative… · Shared by 101, including Jonathan Kogan, Chris Messina, Joel Klettke, Oliver Raduner, Adam Tinworth, Marius Bleuer, David Raab, Mark Kaigwa, Jeremiah Owyang, Björn Ognibeni, Navjeet Chabbewal, Jacob du Toit, Ines Bieler, Steed Monteiro