Thursday, August 11, 2022

Greatest Retronym in History


When it comes to AI, can we ditch the datasets?
Mar 2022, phys.org

Synthetic fucking data. They're making synthetic data to train the robots. And that makes us analog data. Me and you, our faces, our fingerprints, our gaits, gestures, voices (and most especially our consumer behaviors), are analog, starting now.

First there was the acoustic guitar, then dairy milk ffs. Hopefully, when we finally cede control to the omnibot envelope, we don't go the way of the flip-phone. 

via MIT: Paper: Generative models as a data source for multiview representation learning. openreview.net/pdf?id=qhAeZjs7dCL


Physiological signals could be the key to 'emotionally intelligent' AI, scientists say
Apr 2022, phys.org

You got any more of that analog data?
They're coming for your sweat, your biodata. You are the training set for the artificial humans of the future. 

via Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology JAIST: Shun Katada et al, Effects of Physiological Signals in Different Types of Multimodal Sentiment Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2022). DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3155604

Image credit: Jared Michael

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