Finally, the first move towards Blernsball.
Here comes the porto-molecule!
According to Wikipedia, Hayabusa2 will complete its survey of the asteroid in December and the return trip to Terra will take about a year.
IMO this is pretty fucking cool.
As an aside, the title sometimes makes me think “atlatl” instead of “Atlas”, and now I’m imagining a much, much, much earlier version of this thread.
^ Hey, what’s new, Atlas? Whoa-ooooh, whoa, whoa-oooh.
You’re welcome.
We can now edit both the audio and video of a person speaking just by entering new text.
Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video - 9 minute video from the researchers.
Rewrite Videos By Editing Text - YouTube - 4 minute summer video at Two Minute Papers.
The AI matches the speakers voice and produces video that matches how a person’s face would move/change when speaking the new words.
This is still very new tech but there are several examples that I cannot tell are faked.
In all of the science fiction of earlier decades, not once did anyone predict the problem of the accidental cat filter.
It is confirmed that the Pixel 4 has radar. Just look at the cluster of sensors and projectors on the front of that thing.
It just got a lot easier to make animated films. (2:48 video)
For those that don’t want to click:
Remember a few years ago when they figured out how to take an artist’s style and use AI to render a photograph in that style? So you could have your vacation photo of Big Ben done as if Van Gogh painted it or something? Well, now they’ve developed a way to do that with video. Quite a few examples of real footage rendered in various art styles; kind of like rotoscoping by computer, eh.
I was playing around with the software (or trying to; it’s kinda difficult because there are no instructions at all) and forgot to link to the example video that they creators made: Watch EbSynth bring paintings to life is 1:56 long, with no narration, just examples of synthed video.
ETA: AHA! I found the instruction video!
Pretty cool, but similar video filters have been around a long time–this is an incremental advance, not a leap.
The Russian judge only gave him 5.8!
I’m not as informed as the rest of youse guys: is the “balancing” (waving the arms, bending the knees, etc.) programmed, or is it “natural” (happens because of whatever gyroscope is mounted in his chest(?)?
A little of both, I think. My guess would be that the gyroscope indicates in what way the chassis is unbalanced and the AI then manipulates the chassis to get the gyroscope to “zero”. An AI would then remember and try to improve the balancing sequence until it was generally optimal so that that subroutine could be accessed whenever the gyroscope indicated the chassis was unbalanced.
At least, that’s how I’d approach the problem.
Thanks!
We can now print out boats. Yes: boats. 25 foot long, 5000 pound sea-worthy boats.
But they aren’t done:
Imagine the military bringing a couple of printers and a bunch of pellets and simply making boats, housing, furniture, etc. all to order when it’s needed.
Ships could be smaller, because they wouldn’t have to transport as much empty space. Materials could be re-used when something broke or was otherwise no longer needed. Fewer repair personnel needed. And think how fast it would be to occupy someplace if you had a factory or two that could make almost anything almost instantly.
Drone delivery service has begun! (1:17 video)
Well, the revolution has begun.
I don’t have an Alexa, but I guess it’s only a matter of time before my other devices are infected, huh?
I have baseball bats.