It has been entirely too long since I last recorded a podcast… that’s been for various reasons, safe to say none of the excuses are quite that good, but seeing all the people listening while I was away encouraged me to start again. So here’s a fresh one for you
Elon Musk and several Silicon Valley big shots set aside a Billion dollars for public AI research, The University of Washington cracks into the lucrative field of Virtual Tom Hanks, Paris Climate talks reach an actual resolution, and acting gets an auto-tune boost from Disney Research Labs.
And this podcast returns from a quite long hiatus…
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What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks [Research Abstract]
The Paris Climate Agreement Would Be A Great First Step If This Were 1995 [FiveThirtyEight]
The world just agreed to a major climate deal in Paris. [Vox]
How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over [Backchannel]
FaceDirector: Continuous Control of Facial Performance in Video [Youtube]
Johann Hannesson 