Category: Searcher

  • AI’s accessibility

    Well, in light of the recent wave of craze among people all over the world focusing on AI, we have spent a whole semester discussing topics around AI and we also researched its functions by actually trying those AI tools. I just realized that those tools that seem very familiar to us that we could almost use by default – such…

  • good news but for uk

    The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK Obviously, the UK just made a big move to prevent the deepfake sexual abuse content. The article indicates that all UK IP addresses will be blocked from accessing the biggest deepfake porn website. Previously, it was illegal for people in the UK to share sexualized…

  • Philosophy in The Matrix

    The first time I watched The Matrix was on a Delta flight last year. Although the screen was small and the image quality was low, I was still shocked by this legendary movie, especially by the psychological concepts it introduced. One of the most striking sequences for me involved seeing the human pods and watching…

  • Dove’s Counter-AI as Advertisement

    I recently came across this video which I found quite interesting, in the way that it uses AI in order to promote it’s product, but in a way that is quite atypical. Soap and beauty company Dove published this ad just over a week ago (and I was hoping nobody would post it). The ad…

  • Neuralink and The Matrix – Searcher

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants to Make ‘The Matrix’ a Reality. It Has a Lot to Prove First. – WSJ An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels – PMC (nih.gov) The discussion about The Matrix was primarily centered on virtual reality and the concept of human perception prior to Elon Musk’s ventures into this…

  • The Matrix as a Trans Allegory

    Through the number of times The Matrix has appeared in pop-culture, in various Emory courses, and even in politics, I always found it fascinating that the original story was allegorical to the “egg-cracking”, and subsequent transition, of transgender people. Though both sisters were at the time not out, much of the fuel of the film…

  • A Promising Future with Virtual Reality

    From watching The Matrix (1999) this week, I became interested in exploring virtual reality (VR) spaces and AI in our modern time today. There has been a lot of media coverage and research on VR and gaming for recreational use, but I wanted to find other sources where VR could actually be useful in a…

  • Stanford’s Take on AI

    A couple of days ago, this year’s AI index, a project under the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), was released. The index is run by the AI Index Steering Committee, a team of experts from various fields, ranging from academia to industry. This year’s report highlights key trends such as the growth of…

  • Battle of the “Brains”

    Conflict is still raging in the Middle East with many of us being spectators. In this class, we already discussed how A.I. is already being weaponized, but for those who don’t have influence over what happens with the military, there have been A.I.-generated images and videos subjected to the Iran attacks on Israel. The issue…

  • Do we understand AI chess? – Searcher

    [1712.01815] Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm (arxiv.org) What about a Leela(Chess) Zero? · Issue #369 · leela-zero/leela-zero · GitHub The exploration of limits in artificial intelligence (AI) naturally incorporates AI chess into broader discussions concerning the development of AI technologies. A notable paper I encountered discuss the continuous…