Centennial Man

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Imagine creating your own version of police body-cam video. Identifying fakes is going to be big business!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-deepmind-video-single-frame

GOOGLE SCIENTISTS CREATE AI THAT CAN GENERATE VIDEOS FROM ONE FRAME

Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can dream up short videos from a single image frame, and it's really cool to see how it works.

As DeepMind noted on Twitter, the artificial intelligence model, named "Transframer" — that's a riff on a "transformer," a common type of AI tool that whips up text based on partial prompts — "excels in video prediction and view synthesis," and is able to "generate 30 [second] videos from a single image."

Which morality are they advocating?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/432958

Can We Teach Morality to Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence has already changed the way we live our everyday lives. It may have the potential to go even further.

A learning opportunity. I wonder how many ‘students’ we have on the ground?

https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-testing-ground-shaping-us-134858244.html

Ukraine ‘testing ground’ shaping US network, electronic warfare effort

Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

“If we’re looking to see how a modern battlefield is impacted by EW and cyber warfare, we need to look no further than what is going on right now” in Eastern Europe, Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais said Aug. 16 at the AFCEA TechNet Augusta conference. “Everything that we are seeing in Ukraine has implications for a unified network, and almost certainly represents the type of threats we will see.”

Not in my normal reading zone, but this one might help me understand some things so I had my library fetch it for me.

https://politicalscience.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/eileen-hunts-book-em-artificial-life-after-frankenstein-em-wins-award-for-broadening-horizons-of-contemporary-political-science/

Eileen Hunt’s book Artificial Life After Frankenstein wins award for broadening horizons of contemporary political science

Eileen Hunt, a professor in the Department of Political Science, has won the David Easton Award for her 2021 book, Artificial Life After Frankenstein.

The annual award from the American Political Science Association’s Foundations of Political Theory section recognizes a book that “broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through … approaches in the social sciences and humanities.”

In Artificial Life After Frankenstein, Hunt builds on her prior work applying political theory to interpret Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel Frankenstein. She develops a theoretical framework for how to bring technology-based ethical issues — like making artificial intelligence, robots, genetically engineered children and other artificially-shaped life forms — into debates on human rights, international law, theories of justice, and philosophies of education and parent-child ethics.