Soon: AI to create indistinguishable "false reality"

21 December 2017 News Odyssey An ordered list of links for each blog series is on the Archive page. (0)
Infowars.com | Kit Daniels | December 5 2017

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By Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fake Panning, CC BY 2.0, Link Humanity soon won’t distinguish reality from simulation.

Artificial intelligence can soon create a false reality indistinguishable from the real one, suggests new advancements in graphics manipulation which serves as a warning to humanity. Graphics firm Nvidia recently released results of its “image-to-image translation” which can take an outdoors photo taken in the winter and transform it into the same scene, but in the summer – with indistinguishable results.

“We… present high-quality image translation results on various challenging unsupervised image translation tasks, including street scene image translation, animal image translation, and face image translation,” Nvidia revealed. “We also apply the proposed framework to domain adaptation and achieve state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.”

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FANTASY NO LONGER! INVISIBILITY CODE CRACKED

26 November 2017 News Odyssey An ordered list of links for each blog series is on the Archive page. (0)

It's not BIOTECH; it just feels that way.

Once again, the Bible reveals scientific truth.

In the Psalms it is written that the Lord covers himself with light as with a garment:
Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain… (Ps 104:1-2)

Also in First Timothy we read that God “only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. (1 Tim 6:16)

We now get a glimpse of how He manages this —

Bending electromagnetic radiation, such as light, around an object, gives the appearance that the object isn’t there at all, but still can be located by infrared sensors or radar.

Here is the article on WorldNetDaily:

WND.com | Alicia Powe | 19 November 2017

“Sunrise” ...Top scientists in Israel are on the verge of a revolutionary breakthrough, creating a cloak that can render a person invisible.

In their real-world quest for invisibility, scientists at Ben-Gurion University have developed a device that scatters light away from an object so it cannot be detected, making the object invisible to the eye.

Physicists developed the method for concealing objects based on the study of “metamaterials,” which focuses on exploiting and controlling light by examining how it interacts with objects.

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You can also find other related stories on the WWW and on YouTube.com by searching for invisibility cloak or similar terms.

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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