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Womanhood is 'not a game of semantics,' attorney says after judge allows transgender sorority sister to remain

FOX News

A plaintiff in the lawsuit, Allie, and her lawyer Cassie Craven, join'America's Newsroom' to discuss the case, saying it is not about'trans inclusion,' but'erasing women.' Days after MSNBC interviewed transgender Wyoming sorority sister Artemis Langford following a judge's ruling in Langford's favor, a sorority sister and her attorney reacted on "America Reports." Artemis Langford, a transgender member of Kappa Kappa Gamma's University of Wyoming chapter, criticized media and public scrutiny received following the lawsuit, which was launched by several members of the college's chapter against the national sorority organization to bar Langford from membership. Federal Judge Alan Johnson, a Reagan appointee, ruled his court "will not define'woman' today," citing the lack of a definition of woman in KKG bylaws. The court cannot impede KKG's "freedom of expressive association," Johnson ruled.


News Corp CEO Robert Thomson challenges AI-generated content's left-wing bias, accuracy

FOX News

New York attorney and writer Alexander Zubatov weighs in on how A.I. is rapidly changing society and says he's concerned about A.I. being used as a weapon against descent on'The Ingraham Angle.' News Corp CEO Robert Thomson blasted the left-wing bias and inaccuracies spewed out by AI generated content -- calling it "rubbish in, rubbish out" -- even as he warned the technology threatens to kill thousands more jobs across the news industry. Left-leaning media giants that dominate the news business have churned out stories for years that are not only riddled with errors, but also written with a left-wing slant. "People have to understand that AI is essentially retrospective," the media executive said during an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco on Thursday. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot hand are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken on June 23, 2023.


Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film

The Guardian

Each user sits at a computer and answers a series of personal questions, which the exhibit โ€“ in the space of a few seconds โ€“ converts into a bespoke portrait of their life. The project, Tulpamancer, is officially the work of Brooklyn-based artists Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser. In practice, though, it amounts to a creative collaboration between the user and AI. Generative AI plays the role of Sleeping Beauty's bad fairy at Venice. The ongoing writers and actors' strike was largely prompted by fears over the new technology's impact on film and TV production and has resulted in numerous star performers deciding to skip this year's festival.


Why Go With an Evil-Looking Orb?

The Atlantic - Technology

In the past year or so, since the public release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, people have been making their peace with the idea that an omnipotent AI might be on the horizon. Sam Altman, the company's CEO, "believes that people need time to reckon with the idea that we may soon share Earth with a powerful new intelligence, before it remakes everything from work to human relationships," my colleague Ross Andersen reported after the two had several conversations. "ChatGPT was a way of serving notice." But OpenAI isn't Altman's only project, and it's not even his only project with ambitions to change the world. He is also a co-founder of a company called Tools for Humanity, which has the lofty goal of protecting people from the economic devastation that may arise from AI taking human jobs. The company's first major project is Worldcoin, which uses an evil-looking metallic orb--called the Orb--to take eyeball scans from people all over the world.


Three top takeaways from the Senate Energy committee hearing on DOE and AI

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on'Special Report.' Lawmakers on the Senate Energy Committee were warned on Thursday about both the threats and opportunities that come with artificial intelligence being integrated into the U.S. energy sector and everyday life as a whole. The committee held a hearing on the rapidly advancing technology, and experts present spent a significant amount of time not only discussing AI but the ever-looming threat of China and its efforts to steal and recreate emerging U.S. capabilities. "China released their new generation of AI Development Plan, which includes [research and development] and infrastructure targets. The U.S. currently does not have a strategic AI plan like this," Committee Chair Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said at the hearing's outset.


'AGT' judge Simon Cowell reveals he is 'not a fan' of AI

FOX News

The "America's Got Talent" judge told Fox News Digital why he doesn't like AI technology in songwriting. Simon Cowell has some judgment on the use of artificial intelligence in music. "I personally am not a fan of it," Cowell told Fox News Digital. He continued, explaining why artists like Queen, David Bowie and Elton John have a lasting, authentic impact, by noting that "their songs, I think, are as good today as they were then. So, anything which is faking it is for me a bit of a problem," he said.


Newspaper blocks ChatGPT from content amid growing backlash against new tech

FOX News

ChatGPT has proven it can help students with their homework, but now it is helping teachers create those very courses, a computer science professor told Fox News. The United Kingdom-based The Guardian newspaper announced that it was blocking ChatGPT owner OpenAI for being able to trawl content on its website. The Guardian announced in a report on its website last week that it is blocking OpenAI from using the paper's online content, citing concerns that its ChatGPT platform is "using unlicensed content to create its AI tools have led to writers bringing lawsuits against the company and creative industries calling for safeguards to protect their intellectual property." The move comes after OpenAI announced last month that it would enable websites to block the company's web crawler from accessing their content, with many online publishers joining The Guardian in choosing to block the crawler, according to the report. Other outlets listed as blocking the crawler, which uses information on websites to help generate AI content, include CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Times and The Athletic.


Instance Segmentation in the Dark

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Abstract Existing instance segmentation techniques are primarily depth can be critical for low-light instance segmentation. To tailored for high-visibility inputs, but their performance mitigate the scarcity of annotated RAW datasets, we leverage significantly deteriorates in extremely low-light environments. In addition, to facilitate further research in the dark and introduce several techniques that in this direction, we capture a real-world low-light instance substantially boost the low-light inference accuracy. The proposed segmentation dataset comprising over two thousand paired method is motivated by the observation that noise in low/normal-light images with instance-level pixel-wise annotations. To suppress this "feature noise", we in very low light (4 % AP higher than state-of-the-art propose a novel learning method that relies on an adaptive competitors), meanwhile opening new opportunities for future weighted downsampling layer, a smooth-oriented convolutional research. Our code and dataset are publicly available to block, and disturbance suppression learning. Furthermore, we discover that high-bit-depth RAW images can better preserve richer scene information in low-light conditions compared 1 Introduction to typical camera sRGB outputs, thus supporting the use of RAW-input algorithms. "buried" by severe noise caused by limited photon count and They substantially improve the capability of models to learn noiseresisted features and thus boost the low-light segmentation accuracy appreciably. It is worth noting that they are modelagnostic and lightweight or even cost-free. It aggregates local features adaptively and suppresses the high-frequency disturbance caused by noise as well as keeping the details in deep features. The smoothoriented convolutional block enhances the ordinary convolutional layers by adding a smooth-oriented convolution branch. Relevant Moreover, we notice that the high bit-depth can be crucial low-light recognition/detection methods (Cui et al., 2021; for low-light conditions.


MoEController: Instruction-based Arbitrary Image Manipulation with Mixture-of-Expert Controllers

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Diffusion-model-based text-guided image generation has recently made astounding progress, producing fascinating results in open-domain image manipulation tasks. Few models, however, currently have complete zero-shot capabilities for both global and local image editing due to the complexity and diversity of image manipulation tasks. In this work, we propose a method with a mixture-of-expert (MOE) controllers to align the text-guided capacity of diffusion models with different kinds of human instructions, enabling our model to handle various open-domain image manipulation tasks with natural language instructions. First, we use large language models (ChatGPT) and conditional image synthesis models (ControlNet) to generate a large number of global image transfer dataset in addition to the instruction-based local image editing dataset. Then, using an MOE technique and task-specific adaptation training on a large-scale dataset, our conditional diffusion model can edit images globally and locally. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach performs surprisingly well on various image manipulation tasks when dealing with open-domain images and arbitrary human instructions. Please refer to our project page: [https://oppo-mente-lab.github.io/moe_controller/]


Adoption of AI Technology in the Music Mixing Workflow: An Investigation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the music industry is driving a significant change in the way music is being composed, produced and mixed. This study investigates the current state of AI in the mixing workflows and its adoption by different user groups. Through semi-structured interviews, a questionnaire-based study, and analyzing web forums, the study confirms three user groups comprising amateurs, pro-ams, and professionals. Our findings show that while AI mixing tools can simplify the process and provide decent results for amateurs, pro-ams seek precise control and customization options, while professionals desire control and customization options in addition to assistive and collaborative technologies. The study provides strategies for designing effective AI mixing tools for different user groups and outlines future directions.