Extended Reality

Erin Griffith, a tech journalist, coined the term “The YOLO FOMO LOL Economy” in two of her articles. We think it perfectly describes today’s meme society. In this #10 issue you will probably experience some fear of missing out yourself.

Researchers have shown that deepfake technology can be used to manipulate satellite imagery to produce real-looking — but totally fake — overhead maps of cities.

the ones that are focused on implementing automation because they want to make their employees empowered are the ones that succeed.

It’s the digital reincarnation of Albert Einstein, who you can ask all kinds of scientific questions.

It’s a long newsletter this time. A lot of things have happened last week. From monkeys playing video games with their mind, to Paris Hilton promoting NFT’s, to congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez performing sexual acts in deepfake videos.

Today's launch our new report on machine intelligence "The Frankenstein Factor". It's an anatomy of fear of artificial intelligence.

Sometimes the Internet makes you feel like a boomer. Why should you buy virtual clothes for your avatar?

Tragically we often discover weeks or months later the vision we had of our code solving problems was never achieved.

This week we focus on deepfake technology. For starters, the FBI warned in an alert that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks.

The giant container ship Ever Given that has blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last week, bringing a key global trade route to a standstill and capturing the world’s attention, was partially refloated as we’re writing this newsletter.

Playing with Reality is a weekly newsletter in which SogetiLabs’s Research Institute VINT examines the future where synthetic reality becomes part or our objective reality. The newsletter is also a preview of our upcoming book Playing with Reality. Subscribe here.

Most recently OpenAI, a machine learning research organization, announced the availability of CLIP, a general-purpose vision system based on neural networks.