Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 20
February 14, 2020
Adam Savage and his steampunk robot rickshaw
*It’s half an hour of raw obsession, but gee whiz.
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An international code of conduct for information security
*This is how China, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have proposed to the United Nations that everybody ought to behave on the Internet. Everybody’s...
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The latest EDRi-gram
*They’ve got a lot to be EDRi about in this one. ====================================================================== EDRi-gram fortnightly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe EDRi-gram 18.3, 12 February...
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Web Semantics: Microsoft Project Turing introduces Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG)
*Well, let’s hear the thing talk, then. Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft February 10, 2020 | By Corby Rosset, Applied Scientist Turing Natural...
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Reading Chinese science fiction to figure out their military doctrines
What’s the worst that could happen, the science fiction writer mused (…) The relationship between the Chinese SF scene and the state is complex. Chinese...
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Teaching robots to see glass
*This is a very tall-weeds technical article here, but, rather like glass, it’s clear. It’s important that robots should see and manipulate transparent objects, and...
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Mobile World Congress 2020 is cancelled
*I wonder if we will again have a “mobile world” after this non-event. The loss of this major trade-show may have a big effect on...
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February 13, 2020
Charming Kitten on the rampage
*Hacking journalists, not that there are many left to hack. *Also, it’s a press release, so maybe the people who wrote this have been hacked...
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February 12, 2020
Dead Media Beat: “upgrading” silent film with neural networks
*This is basically colorization by another name, but it’s pretty convincing. The apparent weighty solidity of those long-dead human beings from 1895, that feels spooky....
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The good old embedded vision alliance, now featuring extra artificial intelligence
*When tiny cameras everywhere just aren’t enough. https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2020/0... An industry consortium of more than 100 companies now addresses the full range of edge AI technologies...
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