The latent space of image generative models is a multi-dimensional space of compressed hidden visual knowledge. Its entity captivates computer scientists, digital artists, and media scholars alike. Latent space has become an aesthetic category in AI art, inspiring artistic techniques such as the latent space walk, exemplified by the works of Mario Klingemann and others. It is also viewed as cultural snapshots, encoding rich representations of our visual world. This paper proposes a double view of the latent space, as a multi-dimensional archive of culture and as a multi-dimensional space of potentiality. The paper discusses disentanglement as a method to elucidate the double nature of the space and as an interpretative direction to exploit its organization in human terms. The paper compares the role of disentanglement as potentiality to that of conditioning, as imagination, and confronts this interpretation with the philosophy of Deleuzian potentiality and Hume's imagination. Lastly, this paper notes the difference between traditional generative models and recent architectures.

In my wandering around the various data science tools and frameworks, I discovered Deepnote, an online framework that allows you to create and run notebooks in Python. Compared to the more famous Jupyterlab and Colab frameworks, Deepnote allows you to write Python notebooks collaboratively and in real time. Your collaborator may even comment your code! Deepnote can be easily integrated with the most popular cloud services, such as Google Drive and Amazon S3, as well as the most popular databases, such as PostgresSQL and MongoDB. In addition, projects can be integrated with Github and published over the Web, since Deepnote provides each user with a dedicated Web page, which can be used as a portfolio.

In the 1997 movie Gattica, Ethan Hawke displayed the brute-force determination of the human spirit in an hypothetical, transitional to full CRISPR, gene-editing future that 23 years later we are now in, where all parents who wanted their children to succeed were forced to make a hard choice. To edit, to give you children the'best' of your genes, or let mother nature randomly recombine them to produce an'uncertain' outcome. Ethan succeeded in all mental and physical tasks to become an astronaut in that fictional world populated by supposed physically perfect geniuses, but, setting aside exactly how the Gattica scientists determined the criteria for'the best genes', the reality we are facing in 2020 is an interesting one that has some of the features of this movie. While the Chinese geneticist He Jiankui is now missing, he may historically be the person credited with making a Gattica future real. Every parent with the financial means may decide to travel to countries with less strict gene control laws and decide to do this, either on in utero children or on themselves.

Besides the benefits for the community of people with cognitive disabilities, it can also become a useful educational tool in the foreign language classroom, where students with a limited knowledge of a target language can rely on it to adapt complex literary works.

The race for Artificial Intelligence is launched. Like any technology, AI is not a risk in itself; it is its use that will determine the level and nature of the threats it is likely to cause. AI opens fabulous perspectives in the medical field, in the transport sector, even the protection of the environment. Nevertheless, these latest developments also draw a new spectrum of threats that we will attempt to outline, focusing on three specific types: military ethics, socio-political and geopolitical. In the military field, the use of AI is considered mainly from two angles, that of collaborative combat (between man and the "machine") and that of autonomous weapons.

Will Smith is science fiction's leading man. He kicked extraterrestrial ass in Independence Day and Men in Black, dodged satellite surveillance in Enemy of the State, and crushed a giant mecha-tarantula in Wild Wild West. In July, the high tech bad boy goes back to the future in I, Robot as a police detective investigating a murder allegedly committed by a bot. Driving through Manhattan's West Village in his black SUV, the former Fresh Prince admits he's all about getting geeky with it. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links.