Tokyo Team Recreates World's Oldest Oil Painting with AI

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English - November 19, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
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This week we discuss 19-year old shogi master Sōta Fujii becoming the 'Dragon King', JR East performing the 1st ever test run of its new autonomous bullet train system, a 16-year old girl who engineered an AI system to prevent aggressive drivers, a Tokyo team of researchers that made a 'super clone' of the world's oldest but destroyed oil painting and KFC Japan was trending on Twitter this week for a comical reason.

Word of the Week:
二刀流 (ni-tou-ryuu)

This episode was recorded on November 19th 2021 in Hiroo, Tokyo.

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