After A rough couple of years for youtube’s annual wrapup of content on its platform, Youtube Rewind has officially been canceled permanently.

The series launched in 2010 as an end of year celebration of all the content uploaded to the youtube platform over the course of the previous year. The videos have always been fairly successful, raking in Thousands of views per year. Over time the Videos got more elaborate, however with this a sense of dislike and disillusionment began to fester around the videos.

All this came to a head in 2018 with the release of “Youtube Rewind 2018”, which garnered excessively negative responses. Many felt that youtube was out of touch and that the Video Put more focus on celebrities rather than the actual independent creators that youtube is known for, along with many feeling the political messaging of the video was out of touch and disingenuous. 

The video was eventually hit with a mass dislike campaign, and eventually ended up as the most disliked video on youtube, surpassing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” From 2010. It is for this reason that in 2019 the rewind was a more somber affair, being based on the most liked videos formed from aggregate data from the site, and also taking the form of a top ten video. While the reaction to this attempt was less violent, it wasnt precisly positive. Many found the entire concept to be “Cringy” and the tone was far more apathetic than many hoped for.

And so, after a lack of a rewind video in 2020 due to youtube deciding it “Wouldn’t be appropriate” given the events of the year, today a spokesperson for the company said that youtube would be shelving the event permanently. Instead, they will be leaving to creators to form the end of year wrap ups.

However, the spokes person did also say that youtube would instead now release a list video in the format of the 2019 rewind at the end of the year from now in, in a hope to avoid the same negative backlash that the 2018 video received.

Youtube also hinted at a possible end of year “interactive experience” although what precisely that means is at current unknown.

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While we wait for any news on the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, fans of the franchise have blown us away with their incredibly creative minds and have made an AI version of the fifth highest-selling video game franchise of all time.

Grand Theft Auto V, the most latest instalment of the franchise, was released over seven years ago, yet it is constantly being re-released for the latest gaming consoles (PS4 and Xbox One versions, and there are talks of it being re-released again for PS5 and Xbox Series X), and players are still able to find new and interesting ways to make use and have fun with the game that keeps on giving.

Previously, one player dedicated themselves to complete the game without taking a single hit, one developer managed to decrease the Grand Theft Auto Online loading time, which Rockstar Games appreciated so much thanked them personally by paying them $10,000, and another developer, Intel Labs, transformed its visuals into a highly realistic version of itself. Other completely useless but still fascinating trivia that other players have noticed can be found here.

Now, Harrison Kingsley, also known as sentdax on YouTube and author of Neural Networks from Scratch, has made an AI version of Grand Theft Auto with fellow developer Daniel Kukiela, known as GAN Theft Auto.

GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Network and it works like this: there are two neural networks with the first one being the generator in charge of consuming a sample dataset which then generates content from said data and the second network takes the generated content and compares it to the original sample, removing data that is considered too different so that the generator can produce content more accurate to the sample.

Here is a more detailed explanation of how GAN works and a visual insight into how it can be played:

The neural network is the entire game. It’s handling what happens when you press a key to turn left or right, there are no rules written here by us or the original Grand Theft Auto engine. The neural network is controlling all of this along with what happens when we turn into another car or hit a wall… It’s doing all of this based on our imputs.

And the best part of all is that everyone else is free to try it out while we inevitably wait for Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Mortal Kombat X receives three NEW brutalities, and they’re nothing short of brutal…

Yesterday we saw the all new Predator skin DLC arrive on Mortal Kombat X, and three new gory brutalities were also added into this mix, hooray! The videos, from YouTubers Christopher Thimm, Bruno Guedes and C88 MiZxFiT, showcase these new brutalities.

If you’re squeamish, then we suggest that you don’t look any further!

Please also be aware that this material may be unsuitable for those under the age of 18.

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