Innovation Hacking is an initiative within TNG Technology Consulting. We develop showcases in hard- and software that demonstrate the value of cutting edge IT technologies since 2013. Our projects and the talks that we write about them have been presented on fairs and conferences all over the world.
Learning by doing, that's our favourite way of learning. Even more so when the doing is fun. So naturally, we created quite a few high tech showcases and demos over the years that are both fun to experience and work on. Check out a selection of our recent projects!
AI LoFi Radio
Bleeding from your ears is expected
Music is constantly changing – from live music to vinyl records and all the way to LoFi HipHop live streams on YouTube. At the peak of the AI hype, the TNG Innovation Hacking Team launched an attempt to find the next logical step: An endless stream of ever-fresh LoFi music, composed and produced exclusively by algorithms and AI.The result AI LoFi radio is a fatiguing 24/7 live stream, fed by custom software that combines different AI models with real-time music production libraries. We use Google’s MusicVAE to generate Hip Hop drums, inspired by humanly produced drum loops.
Shitposting AI
Why discuss online? There's an AI for that!
Using modern AI approaches such as GPT-2, Tacotron and Conformers, we created fully autonomous robot heads that engage in heated social media discussions, completely taking the human out of the loop.The TNG Innovation Hacking Team created a prototype of an end-to-end natural language understanding system, employing techniques such as Speech-to-Text (STT), Conditional Text Generation and Text-To-Speech (TTS).Social media comments have become the predominant medium for public discussion. However, discussions on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are notorious for their poor debate culture and missing conclusiveness. The obvious solution to this tremendous waste of time is automation of such fruitless discussions using a bot.
Art Vision
Starry Night, but make it your living room
ArtVision turns the world around you into a living, breathing painting powered by AI and Extended Reality. Under the hood, a deep neural network called Neural Style Transfer learns the look of famous artworks - or any other image - and paints it over your live view. Unity3D and a stack of GPU horsepower stylize both HTC Vive Pro camera feeds in parallel and in real time, for true stereoscopic 3D. As a result, your sofa gets swirls, your hallway gains impasto, and you step inside an artwork without setting off a single museum alarm.
We don't only like to make cool stuff, we also love to talk about it! Over the years we've delivered over a dozen different flavours of talks at over a hundred events and conferences. We aim to make our talks a refreshing mix of educational and entertaining tech topics. Check out a selection of our recent conference talks!