Your cloud-girlfriend: It's free. Unlike your last date.

Cloudgirlfriend.com is a new site founded by David Fuhriman. On this website women (cloud girlfriends) can write down on men’s walls to make the female friends of the men jealous, which should result in the rise of the popularity of the men. Users log in on this website through Facebook and can upload pictures from attractive people to pretend that this is the user and fill out a simplistic profile. They select (on basis of all the fake pictures) someone to chat with. “We allow people to define their ideal self, find their perfect girlfriend or boyfriend and connect and interact as if that person existed,” Fuhriman says. “It can help in learning how to manage a real relationship, and they then can take it into the real world.”
                I am wondering if the look does not matter and it is just about your personality, why will you not use your own picture. How is it possible to learn from a fake relationship how you should manage a real relationship? Or are all real relationships also build on lies? And why would you build all your hopes and fantasies on something that is fake and even not you? Besides this, there are too many things that are important in a real relationship which you cannot learn on a site. How can it help in learning how to manage an intimacy interaction? It will be probably better that this is just a fantasy, while your cloud-girlfriend will be no oil painting.

ARTificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Eric Postma teaches about Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tilburg, one of his recent studies focuses on using computer vision techniques to detect fake paintings. In this interview we discuss this study as well as other topics that he works on that go beyond using computer vision for just paintings. One of these techniques is Facial Expression Recognition, to allow the computer to detect the nonverbal cues that humans make while interacting. One of the goals is to allow computers  to engage in a nonverbal dialog with the user. For those interested in AI and Computer Vision be sure to check out the interview!

For more information about Prof. Dr. Postma and what he’s currently working on take a look at; http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/webwijs/show/?uid=e.o.postma

Social Media revolution

There are still people in my network who are sceptical about the influence of social media (and not only in my network). If you think 'Hey she is talking to me, I am sceptical and I think social media is just a hype', watch this movie. And for all the other people who are already aware of the influence of social media, it is just a really nice movie to watch. I am sure that at the end of this movie you will be less sceptical, maybe even convinced of the fact that social media is the future, or even more convinced about this fact and that you are going to share this with other disbelievers. Viva la social media revolution!