WIRED
Facebook, Microsoft Back Contest to Better Detect Deepfakes
2 min · · Deepfakes are improving. The contest, which will include deepfakes created by Facebook, is designed to help researchers keep up. · Shared by 24, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Mari Smith, Chris Messina, Backchannel
theface.com
Grimes on evolving her digital self into WarNymph
15+ min · · As she releases her high-tech pop album 'Miss_Anthropocene', Canadian musician, producer and artist Grimes unveils a Balenciaga-clad iteration of WarNymph. · Shared by 23, including Chris Messina
youtube.com
Bill Hader channels Tom Cruise [DeepFake]
· Paperspace is the computing cloud platform built for the future to power a wide range of next-generation applications. Learn more on: https://www.paperspace.... · Shared by 23, including MrChad 🔮, Mathew Ingram, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Chris Messina
eMarketer
The Who, What, When, Where and Why of US Voice Assistants
· In just a few short years, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have gone from being virtual unknowns to familiar household names. As these voice assistants—and others—continue to gain traction on… · Shared by 18, including Chris Messina, Daniel Newman, Daniel Jörg
Entrepreneur
Your Next Operating System Will Look Like You, Make You Laugh and Remember That You Hate Cilantro
4 min · · VR and AR are poised to bring the world the next great OS. · Shared by 16, including Alexia Bonatsos, Chris Messina
The New York Times
Is Everything Wrestling?
7 min · · The fake “reality” of professional wrestling has become the new norm — from entertainment to politics, and everywhere in between. · Shared by 15, including Casey Newton, Chris Messina
WIRED UK
The best Google Assistant compatible tech to build out your smart home
6 min · · Our edit of the first and third-party Google Assistant smart home kit to get you started with Google and Nest · Shared by 14, including Chris Messina
virtual-beings-summit.com
Virtual Beings Summit
5 min · · What is a virtual being ?A virtual being is a character that you know isn’t real but with whom you can build a Two-way emotional relationship.-What are examples of virtual beings?Virtual beings range… · Shared by 14, including Rick King, Alexia Bonatsos, Chris Messina, Kent Bye (Voices of VR)
CNN
The Democratic Party deepfaked its own chairman to highlight 2020 concerns
2 min · · The Democratic National Committee wanted to demonstrate the potential threat to the 2020 election posed by deepfake videos — clips created with artificial intelligence that can make people appear to… · Shared by 14, including Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina
Axios
Axios Future
6 min · · Steve LeVine reports on the biggest ricochet story in our lives: robots, artificial intelligence, jobs, and global economics. · Shared by 14, including Chris Messina, Nathan Benaich
Stanford University
Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab
5 min · · Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL) is dedicated to advancing virtual assistant technology and creating an industrial ecosystem that protects consumer privacy and promotes open competition.… · Shared by 13, including Stanford HAI, Chris Messina, Stanford NLP Group
National Post
Jordan Peterson: The Deep Fake artists must be stopped before we no longer know what’s real
5 min · · I can tell you from personal experience how disturbing it is to discover a website devoted to making fake audio clips of you — for comic or malevolent purposes · Shared by 13, including Brian Roemmele, Chris Messina
Towards Data Science
GAN Loci
4 min · · Can neural nets reveal the tacit properties that make a “space” a “place”? · Shared by 13, including 瑞拿頭, Chris Messina
Screen Shot
Screen Shot - AI avatars might just be the new gen’s entertainers of choice
3 min · · We live in an age where media companies are all competing among themselves, as well as against the on-demand video providers, to produce content and keep up with the constant flow of trends that… · Shared by 12, including Chris Messina
CNET
This deepfake shows an impressionist taking on 20 celebrities, convincingly
1 min · · George Clooney, Colin Firth, Ian McKellan, Robert De Niro and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among the celebrities taken on by this voice actor using deepfake software. · Shared by 12, including Chris Messina, MΛRC VIDΛL
Futurism
This genius used deepfakes to "fix" the new "The Lion King"
1 min · · Now Simba doesn't just look like any other cat. · Shared by 12, including Chris Messina