A photographer challenged the well-known AI image generator DALL-E to recreate real-life photos that he had taken on a Leica camera, and the results are incredible, to say the least. After some prompt engineering to perfect the results from DALL-E, he presented the artworks next to one another with the text he had used to instruct the machine. The DALL-E images are marked by a multi-color band. Stelzer, a Berlin-based tech entrepreneur, shot the reference photos on a Leica M9 and a Leica M4-P and prioritized subject variety rather than aesthetics when selecting the photos to test DALL-E. "I got the idea while on vacation, and only had access to an extremely limited number of my photographs on my laptop," he tells PetaPixel.

The Lumière Brothers' 1895 short "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" is one of the most famous film clips in history -- you've almost certainly seen the 50-second movie at some point in your life. But just to refresh your memory, here's the clip again (Update: we've added the original clip used by the upscaler): YouTuber Denis Shiryaev wanted to update the look of the clip, so -- with the help of several neural networks -- he upscaled the clip to 4K resolution and 60 FPS.

In his recently published book "Astounding," the author Alec Nevala-Lee brings American science fiction's Golden Age back into focus by following four key figures: John W. Campbell, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard -- and Isaac Asimov, who officially turned 100 today (his exact birth date was unknown). Nevala-Lee's warts-and-all portrait paints Asimov -- known to his fans as the Good Doctor -- far more sympathetically than the genre's other founding fathers. But Nevala-Lee is clear about another aspect of Asimov's story: He was someone who unapologetically groped women. As recounted in "Astounding," Judith Merrill said Asimov was known in his younger days as "the man with a hundred hands." Harlan Ellison wrote, "Whenever we walked up the stairs with a young woman, I made sure to walk behind her so Isaac wouldn't grab her tush."

Artificial intelligence is an important topic in the gaming industry, whether it is a sports game, first-person shooter or an RPG. It is a constantly evolving aspect of gaming, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice director Tameem Antoniades is interested in its development. Antoniades expressed his interest in AI and what can "machine learning and deep learning" achieve over the next few years. I am interested in AI, because finally we're breaking through. AI technology has basically been in the doldrums for 30 or 40 years with very little in the way of advancement, and finally we're getting really good results – eye-opening results.

Alex Proyas never got a high school diploma – a fact he blames on Isaac Asimov. It was Asimov's short story "Nightfall" that derailed Proyas' academic career. "It's a wonderful vision of how the world can suddenly descend into anarchy," says Proyas, 41, describing the chaos that ensues in "Nightfall" when all six of a planet's suns set for the first time in 2,049 years. "I tried to convince my English teachers to assign us some science fiction, but they wouldn't. It opened a rift between my creative desires and what the system wanted me to explore."

If Algirdas Budrys–who signed his work "Algis Budrys" and answered to "Ajay" among the regular Americans with whom he lived–maintained an apprehensive watchfulness toward much of the human race, it wasn't without justification. To start with, as the small son of Lithuania's consul general in Königsberg, East Prussia, he had seen Adolf Hitler pass in full Nazi pomp, while the citizens of the city where Immanuel Kant lay buried whipped themselves into such frenzies of admiration that they soiled themselves and defecated in public. More than seven decades later, dying in a Chicago suburb, Budrys still remembered what he had seen from the second-story window of his parents' apartment on that spring day in 1936. He told me, "After the Hitlerjugend walked through, Hitler came by in an open black Mercedes with his arm propped up. I'm sure he had an iron bar up his sleeve, because he couldn't have kept his arm that particular way for so long otherwise."