Créer des simulations avec des avatars intelligents

En fait, les zombies ne sont pas animés individuellement, ils sont des agents intelligents qui sont programmés avec une forme d'IA qui leur permet d'interagir. Contrairement aux zombies du film, chacun des zombies intelligents possède une ‘volonté’. Cela est possible car les programmeurs leur ont donné un ou des objectifs et un ensemble de règles. Puis une simulation est créée. Même les artistes MPC ne savent alors pas s'ils vont réussir car les zombies ‘agissent’ de façon autonome…

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What in the World Is Causing the Retail Meltdown of 2017?

People used to make several trips to a store before buying an expensive item like a couch. They would go once to browse options, again to narrow down their favorites, and again to finally pull the trigger on a blue velvet love seat. On each trip, they were likely to make lots of other small purchases as they wandered around. But today many consumers can do all their prep online, which means less ambling through shopping centers and less making incidental purchases at adjacent stores (“I’m tired, let’s go home … oh wait, there’s a DSW right there, I need new sneakers”).


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The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit score system

It might sound like a futuristic dystopian nightmare but the system is already a reality. Social credit is preventing people from buying airline and train tickets, stopping social gatherings from happening, and blocking people from going on certain dating websites. Meanwhile, those viewed kindly are rewarded with discounted energy bills and similar perks.

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THE TECHNIUM AND THE 7TH KINGDOM OF LIFE

The technium is a superorganism of technology. It has its own force that it exerts. That force is part cultural (influenced by and influencing of humans), but it's also partly non-human, partly indigenous to the physics of technology itself. That's the part that is scary and interesting.

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Ollivier Dyens