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Machine Learning Crash Course | Google...

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Updated 21 days ago

This article is about making machine learning tools more accessible. But, it is not about dumbing them down for lay audiences or about creating toy interfaces for toy problems. Though there are many differences between human and machine learners, every human being has ample experience in the most crucial aspect of machine learning - we know what it means to learn from experience.

A Unified Tool for the Education of...

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Updated 22 days ago

This online course focuses on the ethical aspects of face-swap technology. How to use, it and how not to use it. If you are curious about deepfakes, the rest of this series will teach you how to master their creation using Deep Neural Networks.

The Ethics of DeepFakes - Alan Zucconi

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Updated a month ago

via @samim https://twitter.com/samim/status/975392679306629124

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Updated a month ago

music, art, AI

by achim koh
73 blocks • 21 days ago

Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles: pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest; turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom; placing your feet in the sand by the ocean's edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them.

JavaScript Systems Music

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Updated 21 days ago

The trams are playing a pentatonic scale, mapped to central Helsinki. A pentatonic scale mapped to central Helsinki In some sense, this is just randomness again.The music is incidental - the tram drivers aren't deliberately playing music to you. Randomness again - because mapping is incidental

How Generative Music Works

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Updated 21 days ago

We live in times when science fiction authors struggle to keep up with reality. In recent years, there has been an explosion of research and experiments that deal with creativity and A.I.

Creative AI: On the Democratisation...

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Updated 21 days ago

The old story of AI is about human brains working against silicon brains. The new story of IA will be about human brains working with silicon brains. As it turns out, most of the world is the opposite of a chess game: Non-zero-sum - both players can win.

How To Become A Centaur

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Updated 21 days ago

Historically, different answers to this question - that is, different visions of computing - have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built. Consider the early electronic computers. ENIAC, the world's ﬁrst general-purpose electronic computer, was commissioned to compute artillery ﬁring tables for the United States Army.

Using Artificial Intelligence to...

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Updated 21 days ago

Listen to what I just found in the WolframTones music universe

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Updated 22 days ago

DeepJ - A deep learning model for style-specific music generation.

calclavia/DeepJ

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Updated 22 days ago

Cambridge Analytica

by critical machine learning
9 blocks • a month ago

If Britain hadn't voted to leave the EU, and Trump hadn't won the US election, it's unlikely anyone outside Nigeria would have given a second thought to what went on during its presidential election campaign three years ago.

Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to...

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Updated a month ago

The plot was made for front-page headlines and cable-news chyrons: A scientist-turned-political-operative reportedly hoodwinked Facebook users into giving up personal data on both themselves and all their friends for research purposes, then used it to develop "psychographic" profiles on tens of millions of voters -which in turn may have helped the Trump campaign manipulate its way to a historic victory.

The Real Scandal Isn't Cambridge...

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Updated a month ago

In 2014, traces of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on "human intelligence tasks" in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon.

Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million...

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Updated a month ago

Facebook makes money, in other words, by profiling us and then selling our attention to advertisers, political actors and others. These are Facebook's true customers, whom it works hard to please. Facebook doesn't just record every click and "like" on the site. It also collects browsing histories.

Opinion | Facebook's Surveillance...

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Updated a month ago

h/t Gabriella Coleman https://twitter.com/BiellaColeman/status/975802974189613057

Information Is the Alpha and Omega of...

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Updated a month ago

Over the weekend, reports from and The Observer confirmed that voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica had amassed data on over 50 million Facebook users. This information had been collected legitimately by an academic researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, who passed it on to the profiling firm.

Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data...

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Updated a month ago

(live) coding music + generative music

by achim koh
27 blocks • 21 days ago

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