Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp on Reality

There's a revolution afoot, and you will know it by the stripes. Earlier this year, a group of Berkeley researchers released a pair of videos. In the second video, the horse is suddenly sporting a zebra's black-and-white pattern. The execution isn't flawless, but the stripes fit the horse so neatly that it throws the equine family tree into chaos. Turning a horse into a zebra is a nice stunt, but that's not all it is. It is also a sign of the growing power of machine learning algorithms to rewrite reality.