This AI Draws Cities From Scratch
These days, computers can identify objects with more accuracy than humans can. But can AI create new images from scratch, like a painter or an illustrator?
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Author: Joseph Fioramonti
Artificial intelligence now powers all of Facebook’s translation
Spend enough time on Facebook, and you’ll likely encounter a post written in a tongue that’s foreign to you. That’s because the social network has two billion users and supports over 45 languages.
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Disney’s Next Movie Could Be Watching You, Too
There’s this term in the processed food industry for when something is quantifiably at its most delicious, but also–critically–still unsatisfying enough that you always crave more. It’s called the bliss point, Now, Disney Research has developed a neural network that seems to be chasing a similar idea–but for the world of movies.
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Note to All Creatives: Marketing is Your Job
In an interview, the novelist Ian McEwan once complained light-heartedly about what it was like to go out and market a book after spending all the time creating it: “I feel like the wretched employee of my former self. My former self being the happily engaged novelist who now sends me, a kind of brush salesman or double glazing salesman, out on the road to hawk this book. He got all the fun writing it. I’m the poor bastard who has to go sell it.”
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600 years of typography in 23 cards
One of the most exciting and difficult collections I’ve created was a font set for “Memory game” by Macosh Design.
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