Let’s Go To The Moon Instead You Really Don’t Want To Go There Mars sucks. It’s a terrible place for humans to visit, much less colonize. Mars is a desiccated irradiated hell-hole that promises to slaughter anyone foolish enough to go there. If the planet doesn’t kill you outright, just the stress of surviving its horrors will…

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The AI Apocalypse The Case For Domination Many fear that AI will destroy civilization. The story goes like this: foolish hackers create a sentient general intelligence, able to solve any problem at superhuman levels. This generalized AI commands its own alien mind and agenda, untethered…

Would you like an easy way to extract interesting regions from photographs? For example, given a photograph such as this: It would be cool to have an AI tool that automatically identifies the parrot and the primate, and then extracts the individual images as follows:

Did you wake up this morning with a hankering to morph your YouTube videos into animated classical paintings? Or into something wilder? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In this brief tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to translate a video into animated art of your choice. For example, here’s…

Simulating The Impact of a Nuclear Attack Simulation: large-scale attack Simulation: single-city attack Do You Feel Lucky? Today there are over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world, spread over nine countries. A large subset of these warheads are kept on hair-trigger alert, fully primed and ready to fire on command…

A Gentle Introduction to Computational Theology Introduction In this tutorial we’ll build a basic AI that reads and interprets the Christian Bible. AI has provided deep insights in many domains. What will it think about theology? This effort won’t need a team of PhD’s and a datacenter of computers. That’s…