A new example of how #AI technology is progressing, this is a video generated by recent research by #Microsoft#VASA-1, which uses a single photo to generate a video with audio from text, the future for scammers is increasingly bright.
There are details still to be improved but many don't even notice them.
Let's end this week with an #emdiplomacyReadingRecommendation! Through sheding light on #diplomacy at the #court of Polish king #Sigismund III #Vasa (1566-1632) this brand new anthology edited by Oliver Hegedüs and Kolja Lichy highlights a widely overlooked region and makes an important contribution to the history of #emdiplomacy beyond the south-west European focus that dominates research.
At first, researchers thought a 17th-century shipwreck skeleton was male. But a new reconstruction reveals her as female, based on results from a genetic analysis done earlier this year.
One of the people who perished on the #Vasa in 1628, and who has been tentatively identified as male, has now been identified as a woman. (The red hat was found next to her.)
Somehow, I'm less fascinated by the fact that she was fair in skin and hair and had blue eyes, than the probable genetical traits that she didn't like coriander, wasn't lactose intolerant, and had wet earwax.
Woman who died in deadly Vasa warship's wreck 400 years ago reconstructed in lifelike detail (www.livescience.com)
At first, researchers thought a 17th-century shipwreck skeleton was male. But a new reconstruction reveals her as female, based on results from a genetic analysis done earlier this year.