This is pretty crazy, an AI generated standup routine written in Jerry Seinfeld’s style, and then performed by an AI using deepfake-esque voice simulation to make it sound like Jerry performed it.
Nothing in this project involved Jerry at all, it’s wild.
Wow! That’s sorta scary well-done.
Yeah really made me think about how AI based chatbots are probably good enough that I may have talked to one on the phone by now and not known it.
When we get most of our information from a display, the ability to manipulate information digitally gave us a world where we can no longer believe what we see or hear. Humanity needs a sharp BS detector. Environmentally, it’s an evolutionary pressure. A new aspect of natural selection. 
“The first principle is not to allow yourself to be fooled - and you are the easiest person to fool.” - Richard Feynman
Natural selection no longer applies.
Look at who has babies and who doesn’t.
Well, actually I guess natural selection is still in force, it’s just selecting for something different than you’d expect based on history. H G Wells’ Time Machine seems to have gotten it right.
Oh, this is good:
Seems like it might be laserable… certainly 3d printable, but I haven’t hunted to see if there’s a public file for it.
Hmm who did that braille project… Ah, @SeanK:
I love restoration videos especially to see the tool/art in its original glory, as the maker intended. This video violates that, but it’s really cool! (He makes the tool into a thing it never was, but it’s still functional.) In for a penny, in for a pound…
I sat here mesmerized. Fascinating. Way more work than I would ever do…and gees…that guy has so many sophisticated tools at his disposal. Very cool.
Aesthetically? He certainly demonstrates functional restoration.
Yes, now it’s a work of art. I always thought “restoration” meant returning it to its original form, warts and all.
He seems weird about that, going way out of his way to keep the insides of even a bolt from the original piece but massively cutting away and even re-designing the shape of the outside of it. 
(and now y-tube is showing me a hundred other restorations 
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I’m still surprised no one has worked out a way to make the glowforge steppers play a tune. It’s one of those things that should be pretty easy to do if you have any musical talent. (which I don’t)
I did think about sampling some the sounds the Glowforge makes to create a MIDI instrument but, that’s not quite at the same level.
Every design is its own tune, but the Glowforge does not know the words so it just hums the tune.
Some very nifty things going on there.
I haven’t seen one of these before - amazing. Thanks for pointing it out!
Neither had I. Isn’t that cool? A clamping surface that conforms to the object’s geometry.
I love a good puppet:
More pics:
https://dinosaurnews.tumblr.com/post/682886579042304000/sensry-velociraptor-string-puppet
This is a good time to bring up Barnaby Dixon, a talented puppet designer. All of his videos are great, this is a recent one I hadn’t seen yet:
My middle son has been serving on the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan out of Japan.