Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also paintings. It's not perfect, but when it works, it is -- like much AI work these days -- eerie and fascinating.
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... and in the future when nothing is authentic and nothing can be authenticated, what do we do? Become Luddites and smash all the machines.
Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!
Redefine authentic. Or thing.
I feel like Dollhouse was a much better show than anyone gave it credit for, and the only reason Westworld has gotten more kudos is because it's more violent and has horses.
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