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The Pain of Watching an Avatar Learn to Backflip

In a NY Times video, A Fun Film About a Topic that Scares Me A Lot, watch as an avatar learns how to do a backflip through machine learning. To…

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August 22, 2023

Libraries / Archives

How We’re Using AI in an Audiovisual Archive

For over three years, we archivists and technologists at WGBH Educational Foundation have been collaborating with computational linguists at Brandeis University to develop, test, and implement a set of tools…

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May 31, 2023

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