Thursday, December 28, 2017

Create fake videos of famous people saying anything you want in real time.

Google has software that can create dynamic audio indistinguishable from a real person (scroll to "Tacotron 2 or Human?" at the bottom):

Combine with this which lets you to put your facial movements on a real person:


Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Google Map's Moat

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Annechino and Cheng spent months researching one city. But not only did Google capture all of their commerical corridors (and several more), it somehow came up with them for thousands of cities across the world. (Even my tiny hometown got a few.)