Archive for the ‘media & arts’ category: Page 106
Jul 26, 2016
Artificial intelligence is now writing music
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
The artificial intelligence “Magenta” wrote an original song, and it’s not half bad. Check it out.
Jul 19, 2016
Baidu built an AI that composes music after looking at art
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: information science, media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation
When Art Inspires AI; AI composes music.
Who says AI is only for big data crunching and driverless car driving?
Jul 18, 2016
No Man’s Sky will have a soundtrack written by algorithms
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: information science, mathematics, media & arts
Jul 11, 2016
A Sci-Fi Short Film: “THE SIGNAL”
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: energy, entertainment, internet, media & arts
Enjoy this VFX Sci-Fi Short Film… 2046. A new energy source, created to solve the world’s energy crisis, is believed to have deadly side effects. When The Signal’s inventor chooses to help a girl warn the public, he gains an unlikely ally to save the world from his own creation. Starring Michael Ealy and Grace Phipps, Written and Directed by Marcus Stokes!
On the web — http://www.thesignalmovie.com
Jul 8, 2016
‘The Big Book of Science Fiction’ a portal to endless reading pleasure — By Jim Higgins | Journal Sentinel
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
““The Big Book of Science Fiction” doesn’t codify a genre the way the Vandermeers’ previous mega-anthology “The Weird” did. Many good science-fiction anthologies exist, though I can’t think of any quite this large or this internationally inclusive.”
Jun 22, 2016
Ray Kurzweil — The Age of Intelligent Machines Documentary
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, media & arts, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
The Age of Intelligent Machines was written and produced for the science museum exhibition “Robots and Beyond: The Age of Intelligent Machines” by Ray Kurzweil in 1987. This film was produced for a mainstream audience, and focuses on developments in artificial intelligence. Soundtrack features music by award winning recording artist Stevie Wonder. Film series features two parts: “Machines that Think” and “Intelligence, It’s Amazing!”
Jun 21, 2016
5 Places That Pay You To Live There
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: media & arts
Jun 20, 2016
These Sunglasses Play Music Through Your Skull
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, media & arts
Jun 16, 2016
University of Surrey Professor and BBC presenter receives Stephen Hawking Medal
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: entertainment, media & arts
Nice.
Renowned physicist, author and broadcaster, Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, has been awarded the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili is the first person to be honoured for his contribution to science with this, first medal of its kind, at STARMUS International Science and Arts Festival in Tenerife on 29 June 2016.
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