my colleague david levitz is here with me now david looks pretty cool but also a little creepy as well i mean hey i can make anyone say anything it likes really mona lisa obama yeah it's a little bit dangerous actually this is a technique called deep fake that has been used actually to create fake news and it is scary in the era of fake news when you can have a politician give a fake press conference and post it online it's also been used to create fake porn using real people who are not porn actors so. great for creative work if you want to make mona lisa talk in your movie but this is really a technology that we have to be very careful indeed now let's talk about the electronics that sensor recently reopened but it is much more than a family museum is it is there are actually. researchers there who are at the cutting edge of ai and the arts i'm going to show you one example it's a guy whose work is pretty cool maybe a little creepy. who's a scientist and a musician now he's teaching ai to replicate human responses to music that means someday you might be at a concert with an ai robot

and i'm joined by the author of my colleague david levitz. 10 is all since his death and his critics in the queues are as vocal as yet he still has a ton of fun well he does robin go to any party where they put on believe gene or thriller and there will be people on the dance floor no matter what they think about him as a person and that's because his talent is undeniable and really no one can take that from him but really you just have to take a quick look on twitter to see that there is a raging battle between his accusers and his supporters and it's pretty ugly you've got the one camp saying he was a child abuser who is music basically should be banned that we should never ever listen to again and then on the other hand you've got his diehard fans who will defend him to the very end and in some cases even threaten the people that they see as defaming him for instance there's an author of a book about the case against him diane dimond she says she's received multiple death threats from some of his more extreme fans so 10 years on this is not all about moonwalking this is really a v

worlds all trying off tons buttons unbelievable life into believable fiction resident but with david levitz has more on our continuing series 100 german must reads hey did you book the hotel yet is it the one with the roof top on actually you know i really need a new profile pic what about the one with the affinity for. what was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isn't allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but that's no skin off his nose actually to pass as a muslim the skin has to come out somewhere else. you can disguise yourself as much as you want but you'll never learn what it's like to be one of us you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our skin fasting is not the same as starving. the collector of wor