Different Strokes

“The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries.” A portrait painted using artificial intelligence just sold for $432,000.

+ “The company asked a team of six people to watch and annotate 109 hours of p-rn and hired machine learning engineers to create a model to take all that data and translate it into what the toy does. This entire process took three years.” Motherboard: Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop a Very Specialized AI. (Hey, it’s about time we had a feel-good tech story!)