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One Artist's Search For The Soul Of Google's Artificial Intelligence
With its machine learning algorithms, the company's various tools and apps can identify people, places, and things–even if you've just drawn a bad sketch. Called Google's Eyes, the sculpture is now on view at the Science Gallery Dublin, where it's part of the exhibition Humans Need Not Apply, which closes on May 21st. With the 20 gray, ceramic pieces arranged in a line, they almost appear like muted children's toys. But the method by which they were created–through Google's machine vision technology and Bolink's image curation and skill with ceramics–tells a different story. Bolink likes to take apart objects and put them back together in unusual ways.
Stranger Things Shares Common Themes With This Ellen Page Video Game
Stranger Things, a show so continually obsessed over that it's become a game of find that reference, is still fascinating fans. The thriller pays tribute to a ton of iconic shows and movies, sometimes in ways that make the audience feel rewarded and cool, and other times in ways that make people feel like conspiracy theorists tumbling down an endless rabbit hole filled with mystery waffles. Of all the roughly 8,362 different influences in the canon of influences that the creators confirmed inspired the series, the PlayStation game Beyond Two Souls starring Ellen Page isn't one of them. But the interactive drama adventure game and the Netflix series do share some common elements. It's not that the show is directly referencing this game.