Philip K. Dick x AI
Sci-fi. Dystopia. AI. Copyright issues. This film has it all. Terence Broad, a London-based researcher, recently completed a dissertation entitled “Autoencoding Video Frames,” which we’ll admit doesn’t sound all that exciting, not initially. Add deep learning and Blade Runner to…
Meet “Mistr Kostky” – AR For Rubik’s Cubes
We’ve never had the patience for Rubik’s cubes. Now, Martin Španěl has used augmented reality (AR) to create a solution for unscrambling them. First, it scans the current permutation of the faces of the cube, so it knows what it…
Girl Crush: Simone Giertz
…aka the “Queen Of Shitty Robots,” which we consider an enviable title. On her YouTube channel, Simone’s Robots, she’s taken the concept of useless machines to a whole new level: there are shitty robots to feed her breakfast, shitty robots…
Hyper-Reality: Idiocracy x Blade Runner x Times Square
This video. There’s maybe no one more excited about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) than advertisers, who can’t wait to create immersive experiences and additional layers that you’ll interact with and that might maybe even make you want…
Azile, The Chatbot That Was Savage AF AI
Chatbots. They’re so hot right now. Chatbots. Really, though, you can’t spend more than 20 seconds on Twitter these days without encountering some kind of tweet about chatbots, Facebook Messenger, AI, conversational commerce, etc, etc… and yeah, we’ve chugged the…
Mid Century Trivia – Now Available As an Amazon Alexa Skill
Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa is growing by leaps and bounds, and for third parties, the way to add functionality to her is by building a “skill”, which is just like an app. Seemed important to try out, so here’s a…
Economist Short Film: Space Invaders
Space-related startups are accomplishing new and amazing things things every day – if you haven’t delved into the goings-on in the Mojave Desert lately, this film is for you. Produced by Economist Films, it follows entrepreneurs as they scramble to…
0101: Watson Tries Its Hand At Beer
You never know what IBM’s Watson is going to end up getting into. When Watson tried its hand at burritos, it actually didn’t go that well, but it’s since been given a shot at beverages – specifically, the beer market….
Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow
You might be familiar with Don Hertzfeldt from dark comedy gems like Rejected. We spotted some new work by him (released in 2015) on Netflix. In his fifteen-minute “World of Tomorrow” short, Hertzfeldt explores futurist concepts from cloning to class…
IBM Watson Trend: Everyone Wants a Beauticorn
If it seems this is sort of a counterpoint to our post earlier this week defending the GOOP-esque, hyper-personalized, risky gifts – yes, it absolutely is. Because you’re probably giving gifts to the mainstream, too, and what better way to…