Review: Urbanista’s solar-powered Los Angeles headphones feel like the future

Nov09
by on November 9, 2021 at 12:03 am
Posted In: Plugged


Whenever I unbox new wireless headphones for review, the first thing I do is connect them to a charger so I can have a nice long listening session the next day. But rather than connect a charger to the Urbanista Los Angeles‘ USB-C port, I simply set the headphones near a window. By the time I actually listened to them, they’d been topped up by nothing other than the power of the sun. It kind of feels like magic. Solar power obviously isn’t anything new, but beyond that cheap calculator you used in high school, most of us aren’t accustomed…

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Reinforcement learning makes for shitty AI teammates in co-op games

Nov07
by on November 7, 2021 at 4:01 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized


This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has proven that complicated board and video games are no longer the exclusive domain of the human mind. From chess to Go to StarCraft, AI systems that use reinforcement learning algorithms have outperformed human world champions in recent years. But despite the high individual performance of RL agents, they can become frustrating teammates when paired with human players, according to a study by AI researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The study, which involved cooperation between…

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The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life

Nov07
by on November 7, 2021 at 1:00 am
Posted In: Insider


To mark Israel’s Memorial Day in 2021, the Israel Defense Forces musical ensembles collaborated with a company that specializes in synthetic videos, also known as “deepfake” technology, to bring photos from the 1948 Israeli-Arab war to life. They produced a video in which young singers clad in period uniforms and carrying period weapons sang “Hareut,” an iconic song commemorating soldiers killed in combat. As they sing, the musicians stare at faded black-and-white photographs they hold. The young soldiers in the old pictures blink and smile back at them, thanks to artificial intelligence. The result is uncanny. The past comes to life,…

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