Twilight Actress Wrote Research On AI - Weekly Mash-Up 168

Kristen Stewart, the Actress, Co-Wrote a Research Paper on A.I.
Inverse

Famously known for her roles in the Twilight series, actress Kristen Stewart is branching out to the realm of artificial intelligence and directing. Using her own painting, she co-wrote a research paper on her short film, “Come Swim”, using a type of machine learning technique called Neural Style Transfer, which redraws images in the style of another source image. Read more

4 ways content as you know it could change in 2017
Mashable

With the new year, comes new changes - this is especially relevant for the way the public consumes content. In order for audiences, advertisers and publishers to truly reap the benefits 2017 has to offer, the following changes to content distribution should occur: authentic live video streams, immersive storytelling using augmented and virtual reality, succinct and bold statements from publishers and a mobile-everything approach. Read more

Tech billionaires doing their bit to prevent evil AI by throwing cash around
Mashable

With the ubiquity and fast-growing development of artificial intelligence, comes worries and qualms towards what the future will herald. Industry giants have been taking initiatives towards decreasing the fear of a dystopian future where humans are ruled by robots, and tech billionaires, LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, and eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, have jumped on this bandwagon too. Donating $20 million to the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, the pair aim to fuel the beginning of a smarter working relationship between humans and systems. Read more

How virtual reality is empowering future generations
The Next Web

Although virtual reality is in its early stages, the promise of its role in the future is large, especially for the generations to come. VR is positioned to currently resemble hardware of the 90’s, and is predicted to evolve to such an extent that VR seamlessly integrates and feels similar to the real world. This, in combination with an accumulation of safe, family-friendly VR content, will allow future kids to ultimately become the world-smiths of their generation. Read more