Algorithm draws on millions of images to seamlessly fill blanks in photographs

[eightgr]

Here's the direct link (http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/)with Pdf download of the study

[Lordiego01]

all this new technology is amazing. and I remember laughing at movies like Blade Runner and just about every single other portraying of CG artists manipulating images past their resolution and other viewing angle.

This could also be a boom for the adult industry! "Press the button to make the guy go away."

haha! :)

[Dennik]

One button mate painting anyone? :scream:

[PhilOsirus]

I think soon someone will develop an AI that will connect up to the internet. From now on searches will no longer be based on keywords but on meaning and the understanding the AI has of what we are searching for. The searching task will actually become more and more automated as the bridge between what the user wants and the complexity of the AI strenghtens.

An advanced AI could also understand threats, frauds, etc., and find such issues by connecting the dots through an analysis of all communications and data transfers around the world, from bank transactions to phone communications and internet chatter.

I don't think this is very far away, and there are obviously already early prototypes of such systems in place, but certainly none with advanced AI.

Imagine a system that has a complete understanding of human functions and speech, and which can analyze all transfered data to get a clear understanding of what is going on, anywhere, anytime, and report on its findings:)

[yenvalmar]

then i'll really be excited. maybe the frames of video themselves could act as the images somehow to matte out actors etc.

[marcusss]

...connecting the dots through an analysis of all communications and data transfers around the world, from bank transactions to phone communications and internet chatter.

Imagine a system that has a complete understanding of human functions and speech, and which can analyze all transfered data to get a clear understanding of what is going on, anywhere, anytime, and report on its findings:)

Not good...
Not good at all.

I prefer some tediousmess in me searches than to have this kind of tool available to governments and police...

Mark'Huss

[Ran13]

Imagine a system that has a complete understanding of human functions and speech, and which can analyze all transfered data to get a clear understanding of what is going on, anywhere, anytime, and report on its findings

Ian says he will be excited...

Personally. the thought of "something" out there on the web listening, understanding, "connecting the dots", and "reporting its findings" (to who???) scares the be-jeezuz outta me.

I think George Orwell would recognize it.

[PhilOsirus]

Yeah of course it is scary, but as society complexifies itslef in its functions, as we rely more and more on technology, we will need a constant analysis of society's physiological state. Due to hacking, frauds, crime, etc., and occasional failures within the systems we rely on, we would need an entity that can analyze the whole of the social infrastructure at all time and report when a part of it fails or is potentially threatened. Otherwise the global economy, among other aspects of society, would become increasingly unstable and human progress would be threatened. Already we are seeing a decrease in criminal acts such as local armed robberies, but these crimes are merely replaced by global internet frauds. For now we have spam filters, but when the crimes will change so will our level of protection.

The more complex the supports of our society become, the more these supports will be in need of attention. But humans alone could not be enough, you can't have humans listen to everything that is happening everywhere and at all time, nor have humans analyze every transactions occuring across the world, nor have humans analyze the state of all infrastructures or the condition of our ressources such as water, air, etc.

A good example is a battlefield. Let's say you have satellites, commanders, soldiers, and unmanned devices. All of these recieve various amounts of data, all of which have varying levels of importance to the battle. Some of the data is entirely digital, some of it is merely vocal. Now the command center must analyze all of this data at all time and take the appropriate actions based on their analysis of the situations. But as more and more data is involved, humans start to lose track, they become overwhelmed with a flood of information upon which they sometimes have to act with high speed. This can easily lead to errors, miscalculations, and catastrophe. Unless of course all you are fighting against are other humans. But what if the opposing side also uses advanced technology? Your enemy has massive amounts of data being processed which you have to pick up on, analyze, etc. In order to beat such an enemy you need to be able to understand more about their data than they can understand themselves; hence the emergence of technology escalation in the battlezone.

It's innevtable, and it won't be long before soldiers are given information on enemy status by machines rather than humans (it's obviously already the case;) ). In conflicts that involve high amounts of quick data transmissions, it would even become likely that machines would be given the task of intercepting, analyzing, producing, and transmiting data in the form of orders to human units, without the need for human intervention in the process.

Of course, all of this depends on what kind of enemy you are fighting to begin with. And this is what is troubling in the end; even if we wouldn't want to reach such a state, who we fight determines who we become:)

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