Thursday, November 21

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Technology

Here’s how deepfake technology can actually be a good thing.

The number of deepfake videos in the public domain has increased dramatically over the past year due to recent advancements in the technology. With face-swapping applications like Zao, individuals can quickly create deepfake videos by exchanging their faces with celebrities. Read More: faceswap These developments are the outcome of deep generative modeling, a novel approach that enables us to produce facsimiles of genuine faces and produce fresh, remarkably lifelike representations of fictional individuals. It is understandable that worries about identification and privacy have been aroused by this new technology. Would it be feasible to duplicate even more aspects of our unique digital identities, such as our voice, or perhaps construct a real bodily double if our faces could b...
Medical

Does Counseling Actually Help?

I began seeing a therapist in my late 20s after falling into a deep fog of bewilderment while living alone in New York and unsure of what to do next. Most trips had me sitting in a chair with a tissue box on the tiny table next to it, but there was also a sofa in the office, which I periodically reclined on as I struggled with what I was doing with my life and even what I was doing at that particular office. Read More: Osrodek leczenia uzaleznien Therapy was still seen in some quarters at the time as a rarefied treatment reserved for the hopelessly neurotic. I felt ashamed that I didn't seem to need it, even if the cost was above my means. It took up so much of my income that on sometimes I would daydream about the tiny Catskills house I could have if I had used that money to inves...