artificial intelligence
Photo editing app is like having a production team adapt your life into anime, in more ways than one.
Created through extensive interviews with a real-life Mama-san, A.I. Yoshiko is here for when you need a caring ear.
Wants to help people find spouses who don’t meet their preferences for age, income, or education.
After seeing how misguided this AI was in its analysis of Pikachu sketches, we had to give it a go ourselves.
They aren’t just creating armies of fictional smiling girls for the fun of it!
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Answers to just a few questions, like whether or not you’re in the mood for something “rock-hard,” is all the information the free-to-use virtual assistant needs.
Never would we have thought that characters designed by AI programs jumped from rudimentary to ultra-advanced in the space of three years.
Kyoto-based technology company created a neural network that’s an idol otaku, then set if free to daydream of its perfect idols.
Maybe it won’t be all bad when the machines gain sentience, as long as they prepare some nice snacks for us.
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