Archive for the ‘media & arts’ category: Page 104
Jan 3, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg: I’m building an AI for my home that’s “kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man”
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: habitats, media & arts, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Mark Zuckerberg wants to live a bit more like Tony Stark. In a post on Facebook this afternoon, Zuckerberg wrote that he intends to build an AI that can run his home and present him with virtual reality visualizations of his work. “You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,” Zuckerberg writes.
Zuckerberg’s vision starts basic but gets a lot more ambitious. “I’m going to start by exploring what technology is already out there,” he writes. That should be able to handle his initial goals, like controlling “music, lights, temperature, and so on.” He also wants this system to recognize when friends are at the front door and let them in, alert him if his newborn daughter needs attention, and to do all of this only when it recognizes the person speaking. For the most part, that’s all doable even for the non-billionaire home builder. Zuckerberg has already found one product that he likes: “For just music, the Amazon Echo is pretty great. It’s been very useful for controlling music with my voice while both hands are occupied taking care of Max.”
The more challenging aspects of the project include making it work without direct input by him or Priscilla Chan, his wife. “I’m very interested in using voice and face recognition to set lights and temperature as well depending on who is in what rooms, etc,” he writes. “For example, I like rooms colder than Cilla, and but it’s possible to just see who is in what room and adjust the temperatures automatically.”
Dec 30, 2015
The prose at the end of the universe — By Aaron Souppouris | Engadget
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: bioengineering, genetics, human trajectories, media & arts, space travel
https://soundcloud.com/kelly-tang-9/sets/nasa-sounds-of-earth
“Programming ‘indestructible’ bacteria to write poetry.”
Dec 29, 2015
[Visual Dictionary] Out of This World Space Art — By Dave Valeza | The Creators Project
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, space, space travel
“[Dave Valeza] captures the wonder artists worldwide have experienced with the rejuvination of the space industry of the past few years. From finding water on Mars to landing reusable rockets (plural!), 2015 has been a great year for space, and artists are loving it.”
Dec 24, 2015
Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality | Andreessen Horowitz
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: hardware, innovation, media & arts, software, virtual reality
Dec 23, 2015
Adam Alonzi interviews Edouard Debonneuil — MMTP — Major Mouse Testing Program
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: life extension, media & arts
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Dec 18, 2015
May the Force be with you. | Star Wars
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
Dec 10, 2015
The Art of Flying in the Movies — By A. O. Scott | The New York Times Magazine
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“What if we could counterfeit reality so completely that the representation would partake of the essence of the original, closing the gap between the world and our imagination of it? What if we could fly?”
Dec 2, 2015
CGI VFX Shorts HD: “Story of R32”
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, media & arts, robotics/AI
Check out this short film Directed by the talented Vladimir Vlasenko, about a lonely robot who just tries to attract attention to himself. For more information, please see the details and links below:
Director & CG — Vladimir Vlasenko.
Director of photography — Igor Guryev.
Sound & music — Nikita Troepolskiy, Igor Smirnov, Danil Varakuta.
Rotoskopy — Maxim Artemenko.
Actors — Nadya Vecherya, Nastya Borsh, Alexandr Sheweiko, Alexandr Koval.
Dec 2, 2015
Why the history of maths is also the history of art — By Lynn Gamwell | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: mathematics, media & arts
“In her new book Mathematics and Art, historian Lyn Gamwell explores how artists have for thousands of years used mathematical concepts — such as infinity, number and form — in their work. Here she choses ten stunning images from her book that reveal connections between maths and art.”
