Creativity

The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It’s also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality. On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket. The outwardly simple Read more…

Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Scott’s film created a world so rich, so dirty and wet and worn out, so visually stunning, that imitation was an inevitability. Less gym-bro than The Terminator, less wacky than Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, and less all-out apocalyptic Read more…

Smartphone cameras and DSLRs have been moving in opposite directions for the past few years, and image quality from phones will finally trump that of their single-lens reflex rivals by 2024, according to Sony. As reported by Nikkei Japan, the President and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS), Terushi Shimizu, Read more…

What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application. Technology is full of narratives, but one of the loudest and most persistent concerns artificial intelligence and something called “data.” AI is the future, we are told, and it’s all about data — Read more…

Atari pulled the plug on the release of Marble Madness II almost exactly 31 years ago after the follow up to their hit game failed to perform well in location tests. For decades the only way to play this now sought after rarity has been on one of a handful Read more…

The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2’s ability to draw/paint/imagine just about anything but OpenAI isn’t the only one working on something like that. Google Research has rushed to publicize a similar model it’s been working on Read more…