Niklaus Gerber - Issue #103
Google AI Blog: Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
A long-standing goal of human-computer interaction has been to enable people to have a natural conversation with computers, as they would with each other. Well - Google just blew my mind!
Google Assistant making a phone call
Running an Agency
How to run an agency while retaining your sanity. Workflow advice from handling volatile workloads to dealing with unstable income.
Apple, Influence, and Ive
The greatest designer of our generation talks watches for the very first time.
An AI can realistically "paint in" missing areas of photographs
This video, and the paper it’s based on, is called “Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions” but it’s actually straight-up witchcraft! Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep-learning program that can automagically paint in areas of photographs that are missing. Ok, you’re saying, Photoshop has been able to do something like that for years. And the first couple of examples were like, oh that’s neat. But then the eyes are deleted from a model’s portrait and the program drew new eyes for her. Under close scrutiny, the results are not completely photorealistic, but at a glance it’s remarkably convincing. (via imperica)