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Frank Pavich is the director of "Jodorowsky's Dune," a documentary about the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to film a version of "Dune" in the mid-1970s. I was recently shown some frames from a film that I had never heard of: Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1976 version of "Tron." The actors, unfamiliar to me, looked fantastic in their roles. The costumes and lighting worked together perfectly. The images glowed with an extravagant and psychedelic sensibility that felt distinctly Jodorowskian.
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Frank Pavich is the director of "Jodorowsky's Dune," a documentary about the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to film a version of "Dune" in the mid-1970s. I was recently shown some frames from a film that I had never heard of: Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1976 version of "Tron." The actors, unfamiliar to me, looked fantastic in their roles. The costumes and lighting worked together perfectly. The images glowed with an extravagant and psychedelic sensibility that felt distinctly Jodorowskian.
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Samsung hosts annual forum on breakthrough AI tech
Tech giant Samsung Electronics kicked off its third annual artificial intelligence forum on Nov. 4 in Seoul, where local and global artificial intelligence experts have gathered to share their research projects and discuss future advancements in the technology. At this year's event, presentations will be delivered on a range of technologies, including deep learning, autonomous driving systems and natural language processing. On the first day of the forum, top-notch researchers in the deep learning sector, including Yoshua Bengio of University of Montreal, Trevor Darrell of UC Berkeley, Cho Kyung-hyeon of New York University and Simon Lacoste-Julien of University of Montreal, delivered lectures and presentations on AI technology. Professor Yoshua introduced a concept of an AI solution learning the world like a child, through meta learning and reinforcement learning, while Darrell talked about the latest research trends in autonomous driving solutions that can make decisions in unexpected, complex situations on their own. "The AI technology is already affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives," said Kim Ki-nam, chief of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in his opening speech.
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Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious (And Play Super Mario Bros.)
You probably can't remember what it feels like to play Super Mario Bros. for the very first time, but try to picture it. An 8-bit game world blinks into being: baby blue sky, tessellated stone ground, and in between, a squat, red-suited man standing still--waiting. He's facing rightward; you nudge him farther in that direction. A few more steps reveal a row of bricks hovering overhead and what looks like an angry, ambulatory mushroom. Another twitch of the game controls makes the man spring up, his four-pixel fist pointed skyward. Maybe try combining nudge-rightward and spring-skyward?
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