AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley
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How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation
Check out my story, featuring weirdly smooth hands, addictive AI, and Ed Sheeran bad-mouthing (sorry Ed) www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/04/ 1... Niall Firth / @niallfirth : It's pretty insane how mu...
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses
Here's an embedded 13-minute audio clip of my first attempt! — www.theverge.com/news/621022/ ... X: @sesame : At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Today we are unveiling a...
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M
Ai-Da is the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist. She can draw, and is a performance artist. Sian Cain / The Guardian : First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m C...
In a Q&A using Meta's photorealistic Pixel Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
Zuckerberg might have just infused life into the Metaverse—by ‘life,’ we mean literally. Denis Omelchenko / crypto.news : Meta's Zuckerberg reveals new photorealistic avatars for metaverse Tom Carter ...
Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter
a UK company trying to cross the uncanny valley https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... James Vincent / @jjvincent : Humanoid bots aren't good at replacing humans (no matter what Elon Mus...
Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter
a UK company trying to cross the uncanny valley https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... James Vincent / @jjvincent : You've probably seen Engineered Arts Ameca robot before, which has inc...
OfflineTV VR, a virtual version of an LA pop-up built by a group of Twitch streamers and McDonald's, shows the limits of brand-constructed VR spaces
and plenty of opportunities to bond over memes — in the space. they could also write notes to show appreciation for streamers, resulting in walls covered in heartfelt appreciation with (shockingly) al...
OpenAI announces Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles
complete with lyrics Jordan Pearson / VICE : This Software Can Make Kanye West Rap Eminem's ‘Lose Yourself’ Raf Noboa y Rivera / The Miscellanies : Hope will give us power Tweets: @openai : Introducin...
An excerpt from “Uncanny Valley”, a memoir on the aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment of Silicon Valley startup culture
Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns. — Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point … Tweets: @tmytrn , @oteghauwagba , @devapriyaroy , @laurengoode ...