You've heard of deepfakes – doctored videos fabricating apparently real footage of people – and their potential to disrupt democracy. But this might be the clip that makes you believe it. A YouTube clip of Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader in conversation with David Letterman on his late night show in 2008 has gone viral for showing Hader doing an impression of Tom Cruise – as his face subtly shifts into Cruise's. The mind-melding video has been viewed nearly 3m times since being uploaded to the YouTube channel Ctrl Shift Face a week ago. "Well, I guess I don't need to do mushrooms any more," is the top-voted comment.

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There are many definitions for artificial intelligence, or A.I. I would say it is a takeover of our thinking patterns.

This article was originally published in the Summer 2019 issue of The Record. Subscribe for FREE here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox. Imagine no longer having to browse endless TV channels in a bid to find what you want to watch. How amazing would it be if your content provider knew you so well that it created dynamic TV channels especially for you, based on what it's learnt from your tastes and preferences? Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), this scenario is now entirely possible.

I posted this a few months ago and had some great feedback. I've put some work into the model and have just released the latest update. It uses a modified version of C4.5 decision trees and a load of other adjustments. Think it is working better now after some changes around the classification process.

Seems if it's very lame to be discussed on this?.. I'm really not talking about'dream prediction', but because most of the dreams that we have, are something that we happen to see that happen in daily life, or of course of something back few years ago, or that we hear, we see, we speak about. If at all, our biological brain, was analogically, a sophisticated GAN GPT2 sort of model, would it be real to hypothetically assume that such model gets activated while we are slept? On such assumption, how could be the generator & discriminator be in such model system combined with text generation?. And is this sort of research for dream simulation, prediction really worth it?

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Disney's ESPN has chosen not to broadcast a recent video-game competition -- one that features gun violence -- in the wake of last weekend's mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, according to a person familiar with the plans. ESPN is delaying its planned Aug. 10 broadcast of a recent tournament for Apex Legends, a popular battle royale game made by publisher Electronic Arts Inc., the person said, asking not to be identified as the matter is internal. The decision comes in the wake of the two shootings that prompted politicians, including President Donald Trump, to say video games that glorify violence could be contributing to the country's shooting epidemic. ESPN2 will air the taped segment on three nights in October, according to the person. It will still be available this weekend on ESPN's digital channels, including its app.

You are right that the algorithms in Pluribus are totally different than reinforcement learning or MCTS. At a high level, that is because our settings are 1) games, that is, there is more than one player, and 2) of imperfect information, that is, when a player has to choose an action, the player does not know the entire state of the world. There is no good textbook on solving imperfect-information games. So, to read up on this literature, you will need to read research papers. Below in this post are selected papers from my research group that would be good to read given that you want to learn about this field.