If you’ve got an hour to spare, you could spend it listening to me talk about #deepfake, synthetic media and why you shouldn’t believe everything you see. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/here-right-now/id1518937248?i=1000480919062
William Blake seems all the rage at the moment. The ‘artist/poet/visionary’ thing has a universal appeal and tends to resonate throughout the generations. I shan’t go into details of his biography, I’ll leave that to…
I tried lip-sync’ing to Prince via Avatarify and recording the results. Frame-rate is a bit crappy, but not bad for ‘real-time-processing’ The future of karaoke, perhaps?
The story of boy meets girl is as old as time. One particular manifestation of the love story is the photo-comic; popular in the 1980s, often shoddily produced and sold to bored teenage girls. This…
Here’s a little experiment with neural networks and pareidolia (aka ‘faces in places’)
The world is teetering on the verge of a pandemic. Whilst this is concerning, the mortality rate is relatively low, so whatever happens, this one won’t be ‘the big one’ (we’re too busy killing off…
Background In the last couple of years we have seen a proliferation of the use of GANs in the scene we laughably seem to refer to as ‘AI Art’. Often these GANs are trained on…
After a small amount of consideration, I joined LinkedIn, the social network for business. Mostly because I’d heard it is a hotbed of self-indulgent personal-brand-development – which I find fascinating and horrific in equal measure.…