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Apple’s holiday ad is inspirational, but barely includes any Apple products
This year’s Apple holiday ad is an animated story meant to inspire you to “Share Your Gifts,” meaning your creativity, skills, and art.
It’s also meant to inspire you to buy someone you love a creativity-inspiring device like the new iPad P…
Engineer incorporates code with AI to teach machines how to paint like humans
Pindar Van Arman is an engineer exploring the artistic capabilities of machines. His software, Cloud Painter, which has been 10 years in the making, incorporates AI into robotic systems in an effort to mimic human creativity. Read more…More about Em…
View More Engineer incorporates code with AI to teach machines how to paint like humansMy favorite Twitter account is a bot
Human Twitter accounts serve their purpose, but I prefer tweets from bots.
Research suggests there are now some 30 million tweeting bots — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy.
I, however, like bots that aren’t necessarily so useful nor ambitious. I look forward to their musings because their primary directive is to produce creative or absurd content — and I’m not alone.
“I like anything that’s going to inject a little strangeness, beyond the normal strangeness that we have every day now,” Charles Bergquist, the creator of my favorite twitter bot, NewFound Planets, told Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program Science Friday. Read more…
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