In the ad, a woman in a white lace dress makes suggestive faces at the camera, and then kneels. But if you saw the video in the wild, you might not know that it's a deepfake fabrication. It would just look like a video, like the opening shots of some cheesy, low-budget internet porn. In top right corner, as the video loops, there is a still image of the actress Emma Watson, taken when she was a teenager, from a promotional shoot for the Harry Potter movies. It's her face that has been pasted on to the porn performer's.

Growing up in Rhode Island (the Ocean State), I lived very close to the water. Over the years, I have seen the effects of sea level rise and rapid erosion. Entire houses and beaches have slowly been consumed by the tide. I have witnessed first hand how climate change is rapidly changing the ocean ecosystem. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the inexorability of climate change.

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Microsoft Research and Google Cloud have joined forces as part of an initiative to open up datasets that help researchers combat the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. Through the initiative, the Kaggle data science community acquired by Google cloud three years ago, Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health have collaborated to release the Covid-19 Open Research Dataset (Cord-19). Michael Kratsios, US chief technology officer at The White House, called on the research community to collaborate to combat coronavirus. "Decisive action from America's science and technology enterprise is critical to prevent, detect, treat and develop solutions to Covid-19," he said. "The White House will continue to be a strong partner in this all-hands-on-deck approach. We thank each institution for voluntarily lending its expertise and innovation to this collaborative effort, and call on the US research community to put artificial intelligence [AI] technologies to work in answering key scientific questions about the novel Coronavirus. The collaborative effort includes a challenge aimed at encouraging researchers to provide new insights based on the reams of data being produced about coronavirus. "We are issuing a call to action to the world's artificial intelligence experts to develop text and data mining tools that can help the medical community develop answers to high-priority scientific questions.