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The Woman Who Made Online Dating Into a 'Science'
The anthropologist and famed love expert Helen Fisher seemed ready to dash into oncoming traffic. We were on a sidewalk in Manhattan, opposite the American Museum of Natural History, and nowhere near a safe place to cross the street. She wanted me to stare down the yellow cabs and charge off the curb, though she knew I wouldn't do it: I'd recently taken the personality questionnaire she wrote 17 years ago for a dating website, which produced the insight that I am a cautious, conventional rule follower. She, however, is an "explorer"--she has visited 111 countries, including North Korea--but also, being high in estrogen, a "negotiator" who will use the crosswalk for my benefit. "I am horribly empathetic," she told me. I look into baby carriages and worry about their future with love." This is how Fisher, the 77-year-old chief scientific adviser for Match.com and one of the best-known, most-often-quoted experts on romance and "mate choice," understands life: Personality is a cocktail of ...
Council Post: Is AI-Generated Art 'True Art'? Implications And Considerations For Businesses
Ben Meisner is the founder of the leading online photo editing platform Ribbet.com. In recent times a flurry of AI-powered photo and video editing tools have emerged, ranging from those that simply save time by automatically removing backgrounds, to more sophisticated tools that replace people (deepfakes) or that generate completely new and realistic scenes from scratch, such as DALL·E and Stable Diffusion. When you consider the development of AI technology in driverless cars, there are clear problems that are being addressed. For example, there's the potential benefit of fewer accidents, where approximately 1.3 million people currently lose their lives each year in road fatalities. But when it comes to photo and video manipulation, what is it we are ultimately working toward solving?
I asked A.I. if humans should fear text-to-image A.I. generators. Here is what it said. - DIY Photography
With the recent rise in popularity of text-to-image image generation engines, our friend Pratik Naik had a chat with one of the most popular A.I. chatbots, Open A.I. In his words, the conversation title is "I asked A.I. if humans have anything to fear when it comes to text to image A.I. generators? Here is what it said." It was an interesting conversation, although with a somber conclusion. We are bringing this interview as is and would love to hear if you are concerned about AI or consider it as an opportunity.