The Singularity Approaches!

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  1. Alexis Keane

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    Introducing the newest Boston Dynamics creation:
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    Almost?
     
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    I feel people aren't sufficiently freaked/geeked out about Atlas's backflip.

    As far back as 2012, I knew that a robot having such incredible balance and control as to be able to do complex jumping motions was going to be a major leap forward for the entire field. And I'm not even the only one who realized this:
     
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    Hello, Dave. You seem sad...

    https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/facebook-ai-suicide-prevention/

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    Big Brother is watching you, but, don't worry, he really just cares, in a non-creepy not-stalker kind of stalking way.
     
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    why does the girl in the background look so sad
     
  7. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    That's what the AI asked when it flagged her post as suicidal.
     
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    As the singularity approaches, neural network pens black metal album

    Reeeyeeeeeese... of tha maaassssshyyyyyyunaahhhhh

    RotM If Coditany of Timeness was released without the high-tech fanfare, no one in the notoriously elitist black metal scene would bat an eyelid. Perhaps popular online US music mag Pitchfork would even give it a "6/10".

    The album has everything intrinsic to the sub-genre – tremolo guitars, blasting drums, barked vocals, and total disregard for lamestream songwriting conventions – but humans aren't responsible for this cacophony. At least not directly.


    Because the record, as first revealed (here) by The Outline, was written by a computer. More specifically, deep learning software that regurgitates an emulation of whatever music it's fed. In this case, it's the avant-garde black metal act Krallice's 2011 album Diotima.

    The project, Dadabots, is led by machine-learning boffin Christopher James Carr and music producer Zack Zukowski. The pair are due to present their paper – Generating Black Metal and Math Rock: Beyond Bach, Beethoven, and Beatles (PDF) – to the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Long Beach, California, this week.


    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/04/neural_network_writes_black_metal_album/
     
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    Based on nothing but conjecture, I feel that 2018 will be the year media synthesis begins taking off
    Starspawn0's take on this is roughly reinforcing my opinion (Starspawn0 being a STEM professor and machine learning expert):

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    GANs (generative adversarial networks) can generate gorgeous 1024x1024 images now



    These are not images that are plucked from Google via a text-to-image search. The computer is essentially "imagining" these things and people based on images it's seen before. Of course, it took thousands of hours with ridiculously strong GPUs to do it, but it's been done.

    Oh, and here's image translation.

     
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    Seriously, image translation blows my friggin' mind.
    Here's another technique: neural style transfer.



    And another mind-blowing media synthesis technique? Terrain generation.


    Okay, so what is this forum about? LitRPG? What are some of the best aspects of RPGs? The sense of adventure, of scale, of there being a world for you to explore. It costs money to create these worlds and there's always going to be some sort of restraint. Do you want larger and wider worlds with bland copy-pasting? Or smaller and more compact worlds with dense content and unique locations? Procedural generation is purely the former, and when it's done well, it's fine. But when it's done like No Man's Sky, well...

    With deep learning, you could have larger worlds with dense content. It's procedural generation on crack, if that crack was itself on crack.
     
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    Only procedural generation of terrain so far, I'm interested to see whether they're able to expand that to generation of settlements in various states of formation and decay. I'm also not certain whether the procedural generation also applies to river and watersource placement. Regardless, extremely interesting.
     
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    To use a post from the SomethingAwful forums, this is from 2016:
    Semantic Style Transfer and Turning Two-Bit Doodles into Fine Artwork
    [​IMG]
    Just doodle some really poor shit for a piss amount of seconds and the algorithm will do the rest. And like I said, this was from March 2016. It's going on two years later. Just imagine how amazing GANs will be in 2018 when this is what we could do two years ago.

    And here's what we've all been not waiting for:

    DeepDream + Model trained on Manga Comics
    When this is real time and capable of being put into glasses or contact lenses or implanted directly into your retinas, you can live in your favorite animu forever.
     
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    Some of the new photoshop effects/filters are mind-blowing...

    They have that new one for video too - i guess they're popping celebrities onto porn-star bodies?
     
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