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Her laugh made ‘ears tickle’: Family mourns Kayla Rae, found dead in Winnipeg bus shelter | CBC News
Kayla Rae laughed like a hyena and lit up a room, drawing people toward her — and it’s those memories that will live on, outshining the tragic ending to her life in bus shelter on a frigid Winnipeg afternoon, says her sister.
“We made so many fun memories I will forever keep close to me,” said Kesha Rae, 24 — three years younger than Kayla.
“She was always laughing and cracking jokes with everyone she loved. Growing up she was the big sister I adored to be.”
Joanne Rae, the mother of the two young women, described Kayla’s laugh as the kind “that will make your ears tickle.”
“She was helpful. She was kind. She had compassion,” Joanne said between sobs. “She was just a loving, caring person [who] just got mixed up.”
On Monday, as a cold front blew in and temperatures dropped far below normal, street outreach workers found Kayla unresponsive under blankets, lying on the floor of a Winnipeg Transit shelter.
The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service was called to the bus shelter at the corner of Tache Avenue and Goulet Street — a block from St. Boniface Hospital — around 1:45 p.m, where they found a person in critical condition.
Due to privacy issues, no further details were provided by the city, but Kesha said her big sister — whom everyone called Birdy — died from cardiac arrest.
Kayla was the second-oldest of seven kids from a family in North Spirit Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario, an Oji-Cree community just over 300 kilometres north of Kenora.
Kesha was adopted as an infant and moved to Winnipeg. Not long after, her biological family moved to the city as well.
Her two families were extremely close, so she saw her siblings regularly. When she was 12, Kesha’s biological family moved back to North Spirit Lake, while she remained in Winnipeg.
“I didn’t see Kayla a whole lot … but we always talked on the phone, or I flew out to visit my mom and the rest of my siblings every summer,” said Kesha.
When she was 17, her adoptive mother died, so Kesha moved to North Spirit Lake to live with the others.
“I remember [when] we lived in Ontario, [Kayla] was always up to something — drawing or watching a show in her room, playing with her hair — dyeing or styling it — or helping my mom with the motel she runs.
“She loved her siblings and family with all her heart,” Kesha said.
“My forever favourite memory is when me, her and my other sister, Kiara, were laughing together and one of my cousins called us a pack of hyenas ’cause of how we sounded laughing together.”
Kayla was an honour roll student and someone who made friends wherever she went, Kesha said.
“She was the type of person to call you her best friend when she first meets you.”
At 19, Kesha moved back to Winnipeg. Kayla followed soon after, Joanne said.
Most recently, Kayla was living at the home of an aunt in the city and helping out at a shelter for homeless people.
It seemed like Kayla had turned a corner after struggles that began around 2015, when she witnessed a fatal hit and run that left her cousin dead on the reserve, her mother said. She started using drugs to numb the trauma.
“That’s where it all began. Everything shattered for her.”
For the first couple of years Kayla was in Winnipeg, Joanne tried to encourage her to move back to Ontario, “but the more I pushed, the more I lost her.”
So Joanne backed off. During the past couple of years, everything seemed much better.
“She was totally getting out of it,” Joanne said. “She’s been staying clean.”
Joanne visited the city two weeks ago to spend time with Kayla and brought along three of her younger brothers. The group spent time together and shopped at the malls.
“She was OK,” Joanne said, her voice falling into cries.
“I feel like I just missed her. Now she’s gone.”
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25 Times AI Got Majorly Confused By People’s Pics, And The Results Were Hilarious
Artificial Intelligence technology has been rapidly becoming more and more impressive. In Japanese classrooms, robots are being used to teach English, and companies like Tesla and Amazon now have robots working in their warehouses. One of the world’s most famous robots, Sophia, has even been interviewed by CNBC and is capable of holding an impressive conversation. But if you’re concerned about robots taking over the world, don’t worry, you shouldn’t be. Many of them can’t even analyze what’s happening in a photograph…
Below, we’ve gathered some of the worst fails that have come about when AI technology has tried to turn photographs into pieces of artwork. From confusing humans with animals to inserting people where they don’t belong in the first place, a lot of these AIs have a bit more to learn before they’re ready to start pumping out masterpieces. Keep reading to also find an interview with artist Agnieszka Pilat to hear her thoughts on technological advancements in relation to art.
Be sure to upvote the photos you find most hilarious, and let us know in the comments how you feel about the rise of AI art. Then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article highlighting an AI bot that could use a bit more tweaking, you can find more funny photos right here! Now enjoy this list, and remember, Blade Runner was fictional. These AIs have nothing on us. (Yet!)
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Recently, sharing AI artwork on Instagram has become a popular trend. I’ve mostly seen portraits of friends and family members in whimsical settings and cartoon depictions of their faces, but not all AI is capable of capturing a photo’s true essence. Various programs have gone viral for creating artwork on the spot after users insert a few buzz words or prompts, but all of this technology is not created equal. Clearly, whatever program was used to create the pics on this list needs a bit of work…
Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating topic that’s outside of the realm of most people’s expertise, so to learn more about the role AI can play in artists’ lives, we reached out to painterAgnieszka Pilat. Agnieszka says that machines are her subject and has experience incorporating robots into her work, so we wanted to gain some insight from her on her artistic process.
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We first asked Agnieszka how she feels about AI being used to create art, and she began with a quote from media theorist Marshall McLuhan. “We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror.”
“The controversy surrounding AI using training data from human artists to create art stems from the fact that we can’t see the future forms of art yet,” Agnieszka explained. “Yes, it feels outrageous and violating to discover that machine learning algorithms use man-made art to make images, but these images reflect the past. As artists, we will use these new tools to make original, entirely new forms of art. AI can’t do that – it is simulating the past, not the future.”
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We also wanted to learn more about Agnieszka’s unique artistic process. “In my artistic practice, I use robots including Boston Dynamic’s Spot and Agility Robotic’s Digit, which use AI to solve spatial problems and do so by making certain decisions without my intervention,” she told Bored Panda.
“I am proud to say that art created with my robots is original and not trained on datasets from other artists due to the fact that these industrial robots aren’t made to create art,” Agnieszka added. “The paradox that robot made art is original, unique and not mass produced in contrast to the natural function of the machine (un-original, repetitive and mass produced) is crucial to my concepts.”
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We also asked Agnieszka if there were any misconceptions about AI art that she would like to dispel. “I think there are misconceptions surrounding the historical timeline of AI,” she shared. “Contrary to popular belief, AI art is not a new phenomenon. Artists and engineers have experimented with it since the 70s. For example, Harold Cohen created AARON – a language that created the first generation of computer-generated art. Using AARON, Cohen produced thousands of drawings at many different scales, from letter-sized paper to massive murals. This included drawings eventually exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.”
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We then asked Agnieszka if she would be willing to share any tips for artists interested in experimenting with AI for their future projects. “The word ‘experimenting’ is key!” she told Bored Panda. “Because the tools that allow artists to use AI change so fast, no one truly is an expert in the field. Therefore, my suggestion is to have an open mind and play with tools that feel right and appealing to you. There are no standards that have emerged yet, so this is a very exciting time to jump into the field. However, unlike the AI algorithm, don’t copy – make it yours and make it original. Don’t feel pressured to follow a trend and focus on making great work to start your own trend.”
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Agnieszka also mentioned that it’s only natural for artists to lead the debate on the ethics of AI. “Marshall McLuhan wrote, ‘I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.’ The flood of avatars from Lensa this past month brought to the forefront of the public forum what otherwise would perhaps have gone unnoticed.”
If you’re interested in checking out Agnieszka’s amazing paintings and learning more about her process collaborating with robots, be sure to visit her website right here!
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We hope this article has assuaged any fears you might have had about AI taking over the world. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, or at least not any time soon. Keep upvoting the photos that you’ve gotten a kick out of, and let us know in the comments how you feel about AI art. Do you think it’s something we should all get on board with, or does it make you fear for human artists’ futures? Then, if you want to check out another Bored Panda article featuring an AI bot who is more than a little bit confused, you can find that right here!
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Mom Asks Her Daughter To Smile More, Shares Funny Parenting Fail
One mom’s parenting fail has the internet in tears from laughing so hard.
Earlier this month, Ann Milligan shared footage on TikTok of her 9-year-old daughter, Evie, rehearsing for her part in the chorus of her school musical.
“She looked miserable,” Milligan, 40, tells TODAY.com, noting that it was a particularly long day because several students were out sick and others had to step in and learn their lines.
Later that day, Milligan, a mother of four in California, offered some advice.
“I was like, ‘Try to smile more when you’re on stage,’” Milligan says.
Whoops! As soon as the words came out of Milligan’s mouth, she knew she’d made a huge mistake.
“No female ever wants to be told to smile more, and I knew that wasn’t going to go over well,” Milligan says. “Evie didn’t immediately react, which made me nervous because she’s a headstrong kid.”
Little did Milligan know that the wheels in Evie’s brain were turning.
As Milligan tells TODAY.com, “She had a game plan.”
In the now-viral TikTok video, Evie is shown grinning maniacally throughout a performance of “Beauty and the Beast Tell All.” The best part? She never takes her eyes off her mom.
“One little girl who was next to her whispered, ‘You don’t have to smile that big,’” Milligan says.
But Evie had no plans of stopping.
“When she looked into the audience I had mascara running down my face from laughing — that’s when she decided she was going to do it the whole show,” Milligan explains.
Evie says that’s exactly what happened.
“I love making her laugh,” the third grader tells TODAY.com. “I don’t think she’s ever laughed that hard.”
Since Milligan shared the video on TikTok on Dec. 7, it’s been been seen nearly 3 million times.
“IM IN TEARS,” wrote one person in the comments.
Added another, “May this child never change.”
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