Machine translates brainwaves into sentences - BBC News

Machine translates brainwaves into sentences - BBC News This artilce indicates progress in ai use of understanding brain function and meaning, very interesting althogh very early stage.

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality





:Virtual reality and Augmented reality

The new new old thing

by Sanford Rosenberg, PhD

Having recently attended the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference as well as the AR/VR conference and the Neurogaming conference, I can attest that AR and VR are hot.

No one has resolved satisfactorily yet the dizzy/nauseousness problem, especially for women, interestingly enough, according to one report.

The emerging platforms, Oculus Rift, Sony, Samsung, all have improved features and a more comfortable form factor.  However beyond the almost arcade-like fun of the running and shooter games, I am not yet sure as to who the audience is for headsets and wearing them outside vid gamers.  Clearly Sony with its significant installed base of Playstations, reported 300 games in development, and its own proprietary headset, believes it has the edge.  Of course, Samsung is no slouch with its eye-gear and its arrangement with Google and the Android operating system. Naturally Facebook, with its purchase of Oculus Rift and its large user base, believes that the key to successful AR/VR implementation lies in social interactivity and game playing.

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Google Music Crunches Your Data to Craft Perfect Playlists | WIRED

Dr Media here, you can't hide online if you say what you like.to watch, listen to, buy, search, read, taste, think about it, do you know who you are ?

So do they , but you can still lie,, who would do such a thing?

Hmmmm?



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What Can Coaches Do for You? - HBR

Heres a discussion of what coaching can do for you,

Well stated









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Transmedia Market Projections 7/2014

Transmedia Market Projections
Movies, Home Video, OTT [Over-the-Top] Streaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps, Music, Television/Internet Advertising
Transmedia is the Future of Media

Transmedia, sometimes referred to as the Second Screen, encompasses all aspects of the Entertainment Media universe, including movies, television, the web, mobile, and most importantly, cross-platform advertising. As the data below will indicate, media content and advertising revenues on all screens are on the upswing. It should be noted that in the US, 80% of all people who watch television are also on another screen.

All entertainment and media projects must be evaluated for their transmedia potentials from the beginning of development. For distributors, producers, and investors, taking into account all potential revenues sources from all media platforms is absolutely essential. Cross-platform advertising for transmedia projects, i.e. movies, video games, television, web and mobile entertainment properties, is here now and, as the numbers below indicate, is the wave of the future. And social media is a key element of this evaluation.

All media will be Transmedia, all media will be available on all screens 24/7, globally.

Just as all stories can and will be told on all media, cross collateralization of media investments will recoup from all screens. This is the bright future of media content in the emerging global market place.

All aspects of the entertainment industry, are rapidly gearing up to take advantage of the exploding opportunities provided by the convergence of all media platforms and the opportunities for discovery, matching, and sharing that the new social media provide.

We are just at the beginning of the new generation of media and storytelling.

• See the chart below for the latest aggregate numbers representing the Transmedia revenue stream projections through 2018. Source: SMPTE conference, Cisco BDG, Stanford University, June 2014. 

FILMED ENTERTAINMENT

• Globally, filmed entertainment revenue will rise at a CAGR of 4.5% from US$88.3 Billion in 2013 to US$110.1 Billion in 2018, passing US$100 Billion in 2017 
• Globally, the total combined revenue from over-the-top (OTT)/streaming services and broadcasters' video on demand (VOD) services will grow at a CAGR of 19.9% to overtake physical home video revenue (the sale and rental of DVDs and Blu-ray discs) in 2018 
• OTT/streaming services will deliver the fastest rates of growth. OTT/streaming will see the fastest rates of growth (28.1% CAGR), rising from US$6.6 Billion globally in 2013 to US$22.7 Billion by 2018 
• Global subscription TV revenues will grow at a CAGR of 3.5% over the next five years to US$236 Billion in 2018. *Note: China approaching US$20 Billion subscription revenues by 2018. 

VIDEO GAMES AND MOBILE

• Total video game market, including Video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, totals $101 Billion in 2014 and projected for $111 Billion in 2015 
• Over the next five years, the Mobile Video Games industry is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.0% to $47.4 Billion 
• Total Mobile App Store Downloads: 91% are Free downloads, however in-app purchases projected to deliver up to 48% revenue by 2017 
• Global smartphone connections approach 3.5 Billion in 2018 

MUSIC AND RADIO

• Total consumer spending on music in 2012 was $49.9 Billion, a slight fall from 2011 
• Annual Global Music revenue will start to grow again in 2013, reaching $53.8 Billion in 2017 
• U.S. music market rise to $19.8 Billion by 2016 
• Global total digital recorded music revenue US$10.18 Billion in 2014 
• Global total physical recorded music revenue US$10.17 Billion in 2014 
• Global digital music downloading revenue reaching US$7.1 Billion in 2018 
• Live Music is project to reach $30.9 Billion in revenues by 2017 
• Total radio revenue reported as US$44.5 Billion in 2013, projected to reach US$50.7 Billion by 2018 
• Broadcast advertising will increase to $802 Million in 2016 
• Satellite radio advertising will also rise to $116 Million in 2016 
• Satellite radio subscription spending will also rise to $4.1 Billion in 2016 

INTERNET ADVERTISING

• Internet advertising will become the largest entertainment and media advertising segment. In 2013, total Internet advertising revenue was US$117.2 Billion. Estimate: US$194.5 Billion in 2018, up from total revenue share of US$58.7 Billion in 2009. Sources for the above data include Billboard, PwC, Gartner, Digital Music News

Sources for the above data include Billboard, PwC, Gartner, Digital Music News

What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest?

This research into indexing emotion in relation to sharing will produce the most relevant day for understanding sharing on the web .
BUT don't we know slot about emotional impact of human interaction already ?
Of course we do , how does the web enhance or modify this behavior,.
More importantly how do we internalize the imagined other and how does this effect our sharing , what we share, with whom , when, and how.



What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest?


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-goes-viral-fastest-180950182/


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GRAY MATTER What Faces Can’t Tell Us

At adtech I met with and briefly interviewed the founder of Emotient , a San Diego based company founded by neuroscientists incorporating Ekmans work.
They claim to offer a model which says they can interpret emotion from facial expression and they've got an algorithm which proves it.
Sounds like this group of neuroscientists disagrees and has data to back it up.
context is essential to understanding meaning.



GRAY MATTER
What Faces Can’t Tell Us

OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI
By LISA FELDMAN BARRETT
February 28, 2014
CAN you detect someone’s emotional state just by looking at his face?

It sure seems like it. In everyday life, you can often “read” what someone is feeling with the quickest of glances. Hundreds of scientific studies support the idea that the face is a kind of emotional beacon, clearly and universally signaling the full array of human sentiments, from fear and anger to joy and surprise.

Increasingly, companies like Apple and government agencies like the Transportation Security Administration are banking on this transparency, developing software to identify consumers’ moods or training programs to gauge the intent of airline passengers. The same assumption is at work in the field of mental health, where illnesses like autism and schizophrenia are often treated in part by training patients to distinguish emotions by facial expression.

But this assumption is wrong. Several recent and forthcoming research papers from the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, which I direct, suggest that human facial expressions, viewed on their own, are not universally understood.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/what-faces-cant-tell-us.html?referrer=

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Microsoft, Yahoo see future in television

Hi Folks
Latest example of value of content and need for storytelling .
Means that the 24/7 vod market will continue to grow and advertisers will pay.
Everything is TV now.


Microsoft, Yahoo see future in television

Dina Bass, Cliff Edwards and Claire Suddath
Apr 7, 2014 03:54 PM
Microsoft Corp. is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green, aspiring World Cup players and eerily human robots.

All are involved in shows that Microsoft's new Xbox television studio plans to roll out starting in June. Led by former CBS Corp. executive Nancy Tellem, whom Microsoft hired 19 months ago to build a TV powerhouse from the ground up, the studio now has six series lined up - including a science-fiction thriller called "Humans" about humanoid robot workers - and more than a dozen projects in development.

But the software leader will face competition from an Internet giant - Yahoo.

The Sunnyvale company is currently shopping around for four original television series that it will start airing later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported. That step comes just five months after Katie Couric's move to the website and is part of the company's broader push into original video, which has even included reports of overtures to YouTube's top producers.

Television is unfamiliar ground for Microsoft, which has zero experience in original TV programming and is wading into a crowded field where Netflix of Los Gatos and Amazon.com have generated hits such as "House of Cards." Yet Microsoft is betting on the new studio to produce shows that will attract consumers to its Xbox game console, lure subscribers to its Xbox Live online service and eventually anchor a consumer home entertainment network that will tie the company's devices together.

"TV, as the highest-reach form of entertainment you can find, is a critical part" of wooing consumers to Microsoft, said Phil Spencer, who was recently named head of the Xbox business.

Changing landscape

The moves by Yahoo and Microsoft are just part of a larger erosion of the traditional TV audience.

The shrinking started in 2011 when Nielsen reported that the number of U.S. homes with television sets dropped for the first time in 20 years. As a result, the number of people who watched traditional TV programming, via broadcast or cable, started to decline as well. So far the decline has been slight but in a few years will probably pick up speed.

Last year, 86 percent of Americans had cable - down from 88 percent three years before. The premium cable channels have been hit the hardest: 32 percent of people subscribed to HBO, Showtime or Starz last year, down from 38 percent in 2012, according to NPD group. Meanwhile, the number of Netflix subscribers rose 24 percent, to 31.1 million people.

Yahoo's shows will theoretically be ad-supported and available to people for free online, aligning it more closely with YouTube than, say, Netflix's subscription-driven strategy. Also, Yahoo is looking for 10-episode comedy series with a per-episode cost that's less than "a few million dollars," as the Journal put it - or about the price of a regular network sitcom. That's a deft move on Yahoo's part: Audiences already have plenty of novelistic dramas, but what they can't get online (as original content, anyway) is a new half-hour comedy.

Microsoft is pushing ahead with the original shows even as new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has yet to fully articulate his plans for the company's consumer business. The company last month added an activist investor from ValueAct Holdings to its board who wants the company to shift its focus away from expensive consumer initiatives. The two top executives who began the programming effort - former Xbox chief Don Mattrick and CEO Steve Ballmer - are also gone.

Growing competition

Microsoft remains committed to the effort, Spencer said. Still, success for the Xbox television studio may be elusive as companies fight for consumers' attention. Netflix released its first original show in 2012 and has now approved more than two dozen, while Amazon recently announced a $99 box for watching Web-delivered shows called Fire TV. Sony Corp.'s entertainment studio has said it will produce an original series, a drama called "Powers," for the PlayStation Network.

"This is not an easy business," said Tellem, who oversaw network entertainment at CBS between 1998 and 2009 when shows such as "CSI" and "Survivor" became hits. "There's a huge failure rate. You have to get up to the plate a lot. Hopefully, we can have a higher batting average than most, but it's a long process."

One way Tellem, who was also part of the team that debuted "Friends" and "ER," plans to distinguish Microsoft is by adding interactive aspects to each show to make use of Xbox technology. Her first offerings are a street soccer reality show called "Every Street United" timed for the World Cup, as well as robot thriller "Humans" based on a Swedish series.

For "Every Street United," users can unlock extra scenes and will have mini-games that can be played in each scene. "Humans" will offer ways to follow what happens to characters outside the show's plot.

Unlike the critically lauded titles Netflix chooses by number-crunching its subscribers' favorite actors and genres, Tellem said Microsoft's marching orders are to focus on its gamer audience, typically males between 18 to 34 years old.

Audience focus

"We aren't trying to find something that's going to be accepted by the largest common denominator, which is what a lot of people in the business look for," she said. "We're focused on what we feel our audience on our platform wants."

The company is taking the unusual step of only approving shows that can be combined with the interactive components to encourage users to engage across consoles, phones and tablets.

Dina Bass, Cliff Edwards and Claire Suddath are Bloomberg writers. E-mail: dbass2@bloomberg.net, cedwards28@bloomberg.net, csuddath@bloomberg.net




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NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls - The Washington Post

Hi Folks,

Been a while, hope you're following my posts on twitter, drsandyr.

Had to say a few things about this recent revelation.

Are we shocked, really?

As Bruce Schneier, the leading ubergeek  on privacy and  security, says, it's not surprising that this is being done, unfortunately',"What's interesting is that the capability exists to collect 100% of a country's telephone calls, and the analysis tools are in place to search them."

Indeed, and how good are these tools or is this disinformation?



Its ironic that when everyone is using free services, telling everyone what they read, watch, etc, that we are surprised by this, time to wake up to the nightmare.













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Are Mobile Movies The Way of the Future? | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire

Hi folks, so here we are, does the future of movies mean phone movies, or does the future of movies mean full employment for writers and content creators.Time will tell, won't it.


Are Mobile Movies The Way of the Future? | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire:

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Well folks dr media here , been tweeting and face booking not blogging but moved to post this .

Nionebother than Vint Cerf from google alerting you to the fact that privacy is "an anomaly".

If the governebt told you this you'd be thinking in 1984 or Matrix terms , but it's only Google , well anyone vote for google to make privacy laws?

Google is informing you that if you use google and who doesn't , forget about your privacy UNLESS you take measures to do something about it , this is real

Reality whether you like it or not, unless we become motivated to insist on protecting our rights through legislation .

Quite serious this issue 

Google's chief internet evangelist says 'privacy may actually be an anomaly'

Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable. "Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions. Elaborating, he explained that privacy wasn't even guaranteed a few decades ago: he used to live in a small town without home phones where the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from. "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing."

"It will be increasingly difficult for us to achieve privacy."

Rather than privacy being an inherent part of society that's been stripped away by new technology, Cerf says that technology actually created it in the first place. "It’s the industrial revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity," Cerf said. Cerf warned that he was simplifying his views — "I don't want you to go away thinking I am that shallow about it" — but overall, he believes "it will be increasingly difficult for us to achieve privacy."

Though Cerf's comments may echo concerns over NSA surveillance, he appears to be interested primarily in privacy as it relates to social networks like Facebook. "Our social behavior is also quite damaging with regard to privacy," Cerf says. He gives an example how a person could be exposed doing something that they wanted to keep secret by being tagged in the background of a stranger's photo — a photo they never expected to be caught in. "The technology that we use today has far outraced our social intuition, our headlights. ... [There's a] need to develop social conventions that are more respectful of people’s privacy."

"We are gonna live through situations where some people get embarrassed, some people end up going to jail, some other people have other problems as a consequence of some of these experiences," 

The ways to turn your misery into a livelihood, a therapist offers tongue firmy in cheek useful hints on how to perfect your whining, good stuff., especially fir storytellers 

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/14-habits-highly-miserable-people?akid=11151.266873.ruLKAq&rd=1&src=newsletter924817&t=7

Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail | Technology | The Guardian

Well isn't this surprising, you mean you get a free service and they can't farm your mail to help make their engines smarter, and of course they would never sell this data to the feds, or any government, or political pasty  for that matter would they, nah!
We are all working for Google for free. Facebook as well, wake up folks.

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Slated .com and indie financing

As indie film financing shifts to new studio models, amazon, app, apple, YouTube , netflicks, etc, now we have crowdfunding and a new curated model , slated .com.

Not the 1st and certainly not to be the last .

Will this new model provide more financing opportunities for quality films, while the studios sit on their hands and indie film makers chase money where ever they can.

Why invest in film when software and web plays offer a better upside.

Good question .

Of course where will quality indie films come from if they can't be financed ?

Will there be more Fruitvale stations or Beasts of the southern wild, yes, but one a year?

Risky business as we all know, now more so, interesting as need fir product grows capital to finance it deminishes, nuts huh? 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/helping-hollywood-players-hook-up.html?pagewanted=all

Disruptions: Hollywood, or Silicon Valley: Where's the Money? - NYTimes.com

Hi all, been a while I keep posting on LinkedIn and Facebook as well as tweeting but I thoght I'd try this, although tumblr is next.
This article outlines what I've been preaching for years which is the need for transmedia projects as the future of media making.Indie movies of high quality and schlock movies will always have a place to go but the budgets will be lower because VOD which where everything will go , won't pay as much.
See Fruitvale Station as an example  of an indie film which got made and will do some business.
The money, the money is in silliwood which is not what is discussed here. This is not an either or but a both and situation. People want scripted entertainment, silicon valley creates platform, ni=ot stories, its stories that sell, that requires writers not MBA's.
Stay tuned for the new creativity revolution.Silliwood 1.0.


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Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data - NYTimes.com

Hi Gang, haven't been blogging , tweeting, etc., but felt I needed to comment on this piece.
Bruzzese is the 2nd coming of Joe Farrell and NRG. You see the reason he's popular is because he can fill a theater and create data sheets which sound scientific but really aren't.
His assessment of the film based on extrapolation from arbitrary questions which have no foundation in anything give a level of comfort to studio execs.
There are real ways to evaluate movies which is based on psycho-graphics and sampling technologies.
Mr Bruzzese has taken the advantage the of the shift in the industry. The studios are smart to consult with researchers,, they need better data.I can do that.



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That gut feeling

This article offers an interesting view of the empirical foundations of the felt sense we have when we feel moved by a presentation or person or idea .
Gendlin researched this idea many years ago and it has been foundational in my work .
Now we have a scientific basis which offers further support for this model.The gut feeling is what lets you know you're emotionally engaged.

http://images-cdn.dashdigital.com/apamonitor/201209/data/imgpages/mobile/0053_yjonhj.jpg?lm=1347546285000


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Facebook loves you

The new Facebook mood reporter allows people to lie to themselves and others more directly now .
Not only can they be deceptive about their appearance , career, car, age, etc. Now they can lie about their mood , it's getting more like real life everyday


http://m.techcrunch.com/comments/2013/04/09/facebook-mood/?icid=_comments


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Wisdom 2.0 - Living with awareness, wisdom, and compassion - Live Stream

Sherry Turkle unfolds a reflection on how communications technologies interfere with real communications  and in fact protect people from actual meeting in an authentic sense.



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