Algorithms · February 2021Gaffe level: Typo
Deep Nostalgia's Animated Ancestors Are
MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia animates photos of the dead so ancestors smile, blink, and turn their heads. Some called it magical, others said it was spooky and the dead never consented.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice