Category: Art
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Computer artists. Human cubist art.
Computers are starting to identify objects with near-human levels of accuracy, enabling them to do everything from creating automatic picture captions to driving cars. But now a collection of bizarre optical illusions for these artificial-intelligence systems (AIs) has revealed that machines don't see the same way we do, which could leave them vulnerable to exploitation.…
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A deaf movie critic. Universe upside down.
A deaf man criticizing movies. (1, 2) Listen instead of seeing. See without listening. Feel instead of watching. Surprise the universe. And you will be rewarded with a whole new perspective. The world upside down. This is how it should always feel. Or heard. Or sought. Or... whatever.
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Understand art. Without understand it...
Computers have become budding art historians. A new program can figure out a particular painting’s style — whether it’s abstract, impressionist or Baroque, for example — and tease out possible influences on the artists. Program designers started with a close look at 1,710 paintings. For each work, the program logged the everyday items depicted, such…
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Quality in the Internet. Garbage in the Internet. The oppression of the (stupid) majority_
Search the Internet for quality content. Find music "mixes" which are just a concatenation of songs. With thousands of page-views. Find good mixes which took hours into the making. With a mere dozen of page-views. Say hello to the oppression of majority. Say good bye to quality. Meet the "Internet".
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The sound of atoms... The sound of the universe...
What does an atom sound like? Apparently it's a "D-note". That's according to scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, who have revealed in a new study that they've captured the sound of a single atom. "We have opened a new door into the quantum world by talking and listening to atoms," study…
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