Reenactment and Deepfakes by John R. Patrick
Reenactment and Deepfakes by John R. Patrick Written: April 2023 Facial recognition issues go much broader and deeper than surveillance. A team of researchers funded by the German Research Foundation published a paper called, “Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos“. What the researchers have done is mind boggling. They call it facial […]
Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/28/2023
Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/28/2023 I changed the name of this section from What’s new? to Current Events by John R. Patrick. Feedback told me there was some confusion about “news”. The In The News section contains news about a new publication by me or a news story which mentions me or […]
Facial Recognition in China by John R. Patrick
Facial Recognition in China Written: April 2023 Fortune Magazine published an article about facial recognition in China. The title was “Every Step You Take, They’ll Be Watching You”. You might think with a population of 1.4 billion, it would be hard to conduct surveillance over such a large numbers of people. It actually is not […]
Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/21/2023
Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/21/2023 I changed the name of this section from What’s new? to Current Events by John R. Patrick. Feedback told me there was some confusion about “news”. The In The News section contains news about a new publication by me or a news story which mentions me or […]
Is chatGPT Sentient? by John R. Patrick
Is chatGPT Sentient? by John R. Patrick Written: February 2023 The level of interest in AI and specifically chatGPT and similar AI tools is quite high. I plan to switch back to some important healthcare technologies but, for now, I hope I can help readers understand what is going on with AI. I will start […]