Conversations with animals

Conversations with animals

An interesting podcast "Talking to Animals Using Artificial Intelligence" from Scientific American's "Science, Quickly" series has come out. It focuses on breakthroughs in interspecies communication using artificial intelligence and digital bioacoustics. It's amazing how researchers are using AI and advanced sensors to decode animal communication, going beyond human-centered approaches to understand animals on their own terms. Examples include Egyptian fruit bats, which exhibit complex communication, including individual sound signatures, and honey bees, whose communication includes sounds and body movements.

It's interesting that artificial intelligence is helping us better understand animals, while we still can't understand each other.

Samsung gets into AI

January 17 in San Jose will be Galaxy Unpacked 2024 where Samsung will unveil the latest Galaxy S series. They are promising a smartphone revolution, focusing on AI-powered smart mobile technologies.

It will be interesting to see if they actually surprise us this time with more than just another camera update.

New Mickey Mouse

After three Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1928 entered the public domain, researcher Pierre-Carl Langlais published an AI model trained on these videos on the Hugging Face platform. It enables the creation of new images of Mickey Mouse and other characters, preserving the 1928 style. The model, based on Stable Diffusion XL, was trained on a limited number of frames, which affects the quality of the generated images. Social media users are already creating various Mickey Mouse parodies, which raises new legal challenges, especially in the context of using copyrighted data in AI.

Well, finally Mickey Mouse gets a chance to exist in AI - because, after all, that's exactly what's been missing from the world of technology: more 1920s cartoons in a modern take....

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Each of us is sometimes faced with the challenge of making a complicated decision. How do you make the process easier for yourself? One effective approach is to enlist the help of GPT, but in a slightly more advanced way than usual - take a look at this:

As a decision advisor, apply your reasoning to a situation where I am considering whether [insert decision to be made here]. Develop a comprehensive assessment in which you list the advantages and disadvantages of making this decision, and consider the potential long-term consequences, possible alternative options, and any risks or opportunities associated with each. Your goal is to provide a detailed, multi-faceted analysis that will help me make an informed decision.