Fantastic review! I will DEFINITELY be giving this series a go when it premieres very early next month!
This show, like the novel it’s based on, will explore many major transhumanist (and humanist, for that matter) themes. What do you think? Will you be watching too?
Allison Keene reviews the first four episodes of the upcoming HBO drama Westworld, which stars Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, and Anthony Hopkins.
Posted in entertainment, space
Posted in drones, entertainment
If anyone is interested in being part of computing history; do we have a program for you. Called the “The Alice Experiment”; this experiment will soon be open to the public, where you can take part in the quantum physics experiment simply by playing an online video game.
If you have always dreamed of helping out with a quantum physics experiment, now is you chance. And all you need to do is play a video game.
Click on photo to start video.
Utilizing experimental Watson APIs and machine learning techniques, scientists at IBM Research have collaborated with 20th Century Fox to create the first-ever cognitive movie trailer.
The film about pushing the limits of technology recruited Watson to make a trailer.
For a film about the risks of pushing the limits of technology too far, it only makes sense to advertise for it using artificial intelligence.
Morgan, staring Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti, is a sci-fi thriller about scientists who’ve created a synthetic humanoid whose potential has grown dangerously beyond their control. Fitting, then, that they’d employ the help of America’s AI sweetheart IBM Watson to build the film’s trailer.
IBM used machine learning and experimental Watson APIs, parsing out the trailers of 100 horror movies. It did visual, audio, and composition analysis of individual scenes, finding what makes each moment eerie, how the score and actors’ tone of voice changed the mood—framing and lighting came together to make a complete trailer. Watson was then fed the full film, and it chose scenes for the trailer. A human—in this case, the “resident IBM filmmaker”—still needed to step in to edit for creativity. Even so, a process that would normally take weeks was reduced to hours.
Rebirth of the 1960s cult classic “Fantastic Voyage”; however, this time its not a movie.
When asked what exactly a “nano submarine” was, University of California San Diego chair of nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang described it as like something taken from the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, where medical personnel board a submarine were shrunk to microscopic size to travel through the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat and save his life.
Professor Wang said his team was getting closer to the goal of using nano submarines in a variety of ways, minus the shrunken humans and sabotage of the 1966 film.
“It’s like the Fantastic Voyage movie, where you want to improve therapeutic and diagnostic abilities through proper timing and proper location to improve efficiency,” he said.
Open Bionics, Eidos-Montréal and Razer are working together to bring Deus Ex inspired augmentations to life.
http://gaming.youtube.com/gamespot
Visit all of our channels:
Features & Reviews — https://www.youtube.com/GameSpot
Gameplay & Guides — https://www.youtube.com/GameSpotGameplay
Trailers — https://www.youtube.com/GameSpotTrailers
Mobile Gaming — https://www.youtube.com/GameSpotMobile
