ANNOUNCEMENT: Remember Me, Synthetica – K. Aten
QSFer K. Aten has a new queer sci fi book out (Bi, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Pan): “Remember Me, Synthetica.” What happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience? … Read more
artificial intelligence
Time Travel: AI Restores 1890’s Videos to HD-Like Clarity
Shot more than a century ago, a scene showing “Buffalo Bill” as he conducts an interview with an Oglala Lakota leader looks as if it were filmed yesterday. This old … Read more
Are Conscious Computers Impossible?
Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, … Read more
ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Shoreless Sea, by J. Scott Coatsworth
QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi book out, the final book in his Liminal Sky trilogy: “The Shoreless Sea.” And books one and two are on … Read more
How Will Deepfake AIs Change Our World?
Of all the scary powers of the internet, it’s ability to trick the unsuspecting might be the most frightening. Clickbait, photoshopped pictures and false news are some of the worst … Read more
SCIENCE: AI Is Creepy-Good at predicting Early Death
Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence (AI): predicting a person’s early death. Scientists recently trained an AI system to evaluate a decade of general health data … Read more
SCIENCE: AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos
Artificial intelligence (AI) recently tried to generate cat photos from scratch, and the results were cat-astrophic. This particular neural network (a type of AI modeled after the workings of the … Read more
AI Can Now Read Your Mind (Sort Of)
Neuroscientists are teaching computers to read words straight out of people’s brains. Kelly Servick, writing for Science, reported this week on three papers posted to the preprint server bioRxiv in … Read more
FOR WRITERS: The Uncanny Valley
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Aidee Ladnier: Why aren’t there more depictions of the uncanny valley? Do we really want AI and robots that we can’t distinguish … Read more
SCIENCE: Meet the AI Artists
One of the behaviors considered to be uniquely human is our creativity. While many animal species create visually stunning displays or constructions — think of a spider’s delicate web or … Read more