{"id":11668,"date":"2020-03-04T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:14:58","slug":"google-deepmind-helps-briefly-reanimate-an-extinct-rhino-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/google-deepmind-helps-briefly-reanimate-an-extinct-rhino-in-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind helps briefly reanimate an extinct rhino in AR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeesh\u2014talk about bittersweet at best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He first&nbsp;appears&nbsp;as a crude collection of 3-D pixels\u2014or voxels. Soon, he looks like a conglomeration of blocks morphing into the shape of an animal. Gradually, his image evolves until he becomes a sharp representation of a&nbsp;northern white rhino, grunting and squealing as he might in a grassy African or Asian field. There comes a moment\u2014just a moment\u2014when the viewer\u2019s eyes meet his. Then, the 3-D creature vanishes, just like his sub-species, which due to human poaching is disappearing into extinction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/352678068\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Smithsonian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/northern-white-rhino-extinct-two-minutes-digital-comback-180974295\/\">continues<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Mill, which has studios in London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bangalore and Berlin, provided animation for this project, and Dr. Andrea Banino at&nbsp;DeepMind, an international company that develops useful forms of artificial intelligence, provided the experimental data to set the rhino\u2019s paths. After each two-minute episode, the rhino reappears and follows another of the three programmed paths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exeunt. Sadness ensues. [<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/352678068\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UntitledImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UntitledImage.png\" alt=\"UntitledImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"619\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeesh\u2014talk about bittersweet at best: He first&nbsp;appears&nbsp;as a crude collection of 3-D pixels\u2014or voxels. Soon, he looks like a conglomeration of blocks morphing into the shape of an animal. Gradually, his image evolves until he becomes a sharp representation of a&nbsp;northern white rhino, grunting and squealing as he might in a grassy African or Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11675,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}