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A Spanish artist has created a trippy music video by training a deep-learning algorithm on thousands of album covers. Bruno López produced the video by using a combination of Spotify data, Python scripts, and Generative Adversarial Networks. He first created a script that downloaded the album covers for every track featured on Spotify’s official editorial playlists. The result was a dataset of around 50,000 covers with individual resolutions of 640 x 640. This was used as training data for Nvidia’s StyleGAN2 architecture... Читать дальше...

Deepfake tech has been deployed to create a new digital drag act that explores the social biases of artificial intelligence. The Zizi Show invites audiences to choose a deepfake drag artiste and performance to watch. As the digital bodies move across the virtual stage, viewers can switch between the different AI identities to expose the methods used to generate them. The project is the brainchild of artist Jake Elwes, who created the virtual cabaret by training a neural network on videos of 13 drag performers. Читать дальше...

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Petaluma in California has become the first US city to ban the construction of new petrol stations and pumps as part of its plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2030. The City Council... Читать дальше...

The SolarWinds hack was more than just one of the most devastating cyberattacks in history. It was a major breach of national security that revealed gaps in U.S. cyber defenses. These gaps include inadequate security by a major software producer, fragmented authority for government support to the private sector, and a national shortfall in software and cybersecurity skills. None of these gaps is easily bridged, but the scope and impact of the SolarWinds attack show how critical they are to U.S. national security. Читать дальше...

I didn’t want to have to do this, but we need to talk. The levels of automation thought up by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) are not what you think. It’s probably time that we let them go. Human-machine interaction researcher Liza Dixon summed up the reason why quite clearly in a Tweet yesterday. In short, the main problem is that they’re way more complicated, and nuanced than carmakers — and the media, I admit — ever acknowledge. This is Section 8.3 of @SAEIntl J3016 This is the document... Читать дальше...

TLDR: The Essential Movavi Mac and Windows Software Bundle include a premium video editor, file converter, image editor and slideshow maker, all in one collection. Digital content does not spring to fruition for free. In fact, just the tools for creating top-notch videos or gorgeous professional-grade images are pretty pricey — and that’s before someone even gets paid to actually use them. The Adobe Creative Cloud suite of digital creation apps is the most popular app collection of its kind anywhere ... Читать дальше...