AI technology dominates the news cycle with news of DeepMind’s groundbreaking discovery of almost all structures of known proteins, an ethical dilemma prompted by a chess-playing robot that broke its young opponent’s finger, the artistic possibilities that DALL-E’s text-to-picture art tool may deliver, and more. The DOJ announces the extradition…
Can AI build AI, what does an augmented reality theater production look like, what is the “quantum apocalypse,” and more… AI gets meta: Researchers at the University of Guelph develop “hypernetwork” to build AI. (Olivia Fields, Quanta Magazine) MIT researchers develop training process to help humans collaborate with AI “colleagues.”…
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of 3D computer graphics to special effects. CGI is used in films, television programs and, most recently, on social media. These images are not limited to modeling and practicing yoga … they even attend red carpet premiers. Technological advances may make CGI influencers better…
Apple gets around to AR, the NHL enters esports, the Internet of Things may bring new meaning to “workers unite,” so many medical records, and more … The road of AI learning has plenty of potholes in the form of existing biases. (Cade Metz, The New York Times) Twitter announces…
In case you don’t know, William Gibson is the prescient science fiction author who effectively coined the terms “the matrix” and “cyberspace” as we currently use them, way back in the early 1980s. He also predicted augmented reality applications. In his 2007 novel, Spook Country, a character has taken to…
In this roundup, some of your favorite initialisms (AI, IP, TOS) come out to play while stories about government agencies and social media access call into question whether such access is a two-way street. There’s a wiki for terms of service agreements. (Arielle Pardes, Wired) Qualcomm introduces its first chip…
Niantic looks to the Potterverse for its next potential AR blockbuster, Instagram’s ToS don’t travel so well in Germany, Google gives VR and AR app developers a new tool, holograms may help our memories outlive us, and more! Niantic casts its post-Pokémon Go eye toward the Harry Potter universe…
It turns out protecting driverless cars from hacking is hard; a new technology brings emotions to virtual and augmented realities; botnets get attacked (and get a new job); and more … A new technology transports emotions to augmented and virtual realities via electrodes. (Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review) Protecting driverless…
The Internet of Things does not have to be Skynet to threaten us humans; perhaps tired of defeating carbon-based Go and chess masters, Google’s DeepMind pits its AI agents against each other; exactly when will AR and VR be fully embraced; and more … eBay CEO Devin Wenig discusses an…
Well before Pokémon Go burst onto the mobile gaming scene in July, we had written about some of the pitfalls associated with AR gaming. When the game netted some 45 million daily users in just a few weeks, we talked about Pokémon Go some more (potential liabilities and clickwrap enforcement…