Animating digitally rendered peopleAugust 20, 2008
http://gizmodo.com/5039308/emily-isnt-real-but-would-you-have-guessedCheckout this amazing video. It's weird to think that the day is coming when they'll be able to animate digitally rendered people so that you truly can't tell whether what you're looking at is real or synthetic. Eek!
Romona on KurzweilAI.netAugust 13, 2008
I was just playing with
Ramona on
KurzweilAI.net. Gotta love it:
Daniel: What is my name?
Ramona: He was killed in an auto accident the day before I was born. |
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hmm. That's a pretty specific and pretty wrong answer!
Better brain scansAugust 7, 2008
An important tool in the quest to understand the human brain is our ability to image it. You might think that today's fancy MRI scans are impressive, but I'll bet that the imagery they'll be producing in 2100 will make today's imagery look like the stone age.
Today I noticed this lovely
link on Gizmodo.
Here's a nice
video too.
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