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Plex's latest feature lets you skip movie and TV show credits

Engadget

Plex now has the capability to skip intros and credits, so you don't have to sit through them if you don't want to. The streaming media service has introduced its new "Skip Credits" feature, a couple of years after a similar feature debuted for intros, and it shows up as a button at the bottom right corner of the screen. It appears the moment credits start rolling, allowing you to play the next episode in a series or to automatically jump to a mid- or post-credit scene in a movie with a single click. This new credit detection feature is available throughout Plex's entire free streaming catalogue, giving it a viewing experience similar to Netflix's in that regard. But you can also enable it for your personal collection, so long as you have Plex Pass subscription, which will set you back $5 a month or $40 a year. The company said it developed its own Skip Credits technology by training a machine learning algorithm to be able to detect markers like text and dark frames.


ChatGPT + Blogging (A.I Website Tutorial For Beginners)

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In this course, you will learn my full process of how to start a blog and how to create content with ChatGPT. I am sure with this course, we can get you started on your blogging journey and earning some income online. Starting a website can be overwhelming, so I have only included the absolute essential steps involved in creating a blog. You will also learn how to create blog content with ChatGPT and a better, faster way that I have found and is working for me. AI Text Content Generation is the next big wave in tech so don't get left behind.


The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything

TIME - Tech

For the past 300,000 years we've been unique in our ability to make art, cuisine, manifestos, societies: to envision and craft something new where there was nothing before. While you're reading this sentence, artificial intelligence (AI) programs are painting cosmic portraits, responding to emails, preparing tax returns, and recording metal songs. Artificial intelligence has already had a pervasive impact on our lives. AIs are used to price medicine and houses, assemble cars, determine what ads we see on social media. But generative AI, a category of system that can be prompted to create wholly novel content, is much newer.


The Man Behind India's Controversial Global Blockbuster "RRR"

The New Yorker

S. S. Rajamouli was born in 1973, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to a family from a dominant caste. He learned how to make movies from various odd jobs and apprenticeships, including a years-long stint working for his father, the successful screenwriter Koduri Viswa Vijayendra Prasad. In the past two decades, Rajamouli has earned a reputation among Indian moviegoers for a series of formally ambitious blockbusters, including the spectacular "Baahubali: The Beginning," from 2015, which inspired a new wave of Indian historic epics. But he has found a new level of global success with his latest film, the joyously over-the-top action-fantasy "RRR"--short for "Rise Roar Revolt"--which is among the highest-grossing Indian movies of all time. "RRR" was first released last March but caught on with American viewers over the summer, after an unusual U.S.-wide theatrical rerelease organized by the distributor Variance Films and the film consultant Josh Hurtado.


Posit AI Blog: Deep Learning with R, 2nd Edition

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Today we're pleased to announce the launch of Deep Learning with R, 2nd Edition. Compared to the first edition, the book is over a third longer, with more than 75% new content. It's not so much an updated edition as a whole new book. This book shows you how to get started with deep learning in R, even if you have no background in mathematics or data science. Only modest R knowledge is assumed; everything else is explained from the ground up with examples that plainly demonstrate the mechanics.


Council Post: 16 Things Pop Culture Gets Wrong About Artificial Intelligence

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Tech experts are sold on the benefits of leveraging artificial intelligence to help humans handle cumbersome and sometimes complex tasks in applications ranging from business to healthcare to education and entertainment--and beyond. And while they're optimistic about the future capabilities of artificial intelligence, their projections pale in comparison to the sentient robots and super technologies often depicted on TV and movie screens and predicted in science fiction. In truth, AI is a far more practical tool than a glamorous one--and whether we know it or not, most of us use it or are impacted by it every day. Conversely, there are also many things AI is credited with that it can't do (at least, not yet). Below, 16 members of Forbes Technology Council discuss some of the things popular culture and the public at large often get wrong about AI and what the truth of the matter actually is.


Can ChatGPT Recommend Movies? A Film Buff Put It to the Test - WSJ

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MORE OFTEN than I like, after scanning the endless carousels on streaming apps, I find myself re-watching "Seinfeld." I attribute this to a combo of laziness and mediocre recommendation engines, which rarely highlight anything I actually want to watch. It's a problem that seemed custom-designed for ChatGPT, the bot made by Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence research firm, OpenAI. Over 100 million people have tried ChatGPT since its launch in November, posing it tasks as disparate as writing English essays and negotiating down internet bills. By comparison, "What movie should I watch?" seemed simple.


Recitation-Augmented Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We propose a new paradigm to help Large Language Models (LLMs) generate more accurate factual knowledge without retrieving from an external corpus, called RECITation-augmented gEneration (RECITE). Different from retrievalaugmented language models that retrieve relevant documents before generating the outputs, given an input, RECITE first recites one or several relevant passages from LLMs' own memory via sampling, and then produces the final answers. We show that RECITE is a powerful paradigm for knowledge-intensive NLP tasks. Specifically, we show that by utilizing recitation as the intermediate step, a recite-and-answer scheme can achieve new state-of-the-art performance in various closed-book question answering (CBQA) tasks. In experiments, we verify the effectiveness of RECITE on four pre-trained models (PaLM, UL2, OPT, and Codex) and three CBQA tasks (Natural Questions, TriviaQA, and HotpotQA). Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive in-context few-shot performance ...


jazznet: A Dataset of Fundamental Piano Patterns for Music Audio Machine Learning Research

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper introduces the jazznet Dataset, a dataset of fundamental jazz piano music patterns for developing machine learning (ML) algorithms in music information retrieval (MIR). The dataset contains 162520 labeled piano patterns, including chords, arpeggios, scales, and chord progressions with their inversions, resulting in more than 26k hours of audio and a total size of 95GB. The paper explains the dataset's composition, creation, and generation, and presents an open-source Pattern Generator using a method called Distance-Based Pattern Structures (DBPS), which allows researchers to easily generate new piano patterns simply by defining the distances between pitches within the musical patterns. We demonstrate that the dataset can help researchers benchmark new models for challenging MIR tasks, using a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) and a deep convolutional neural network. The dataset and code are available via: https://github.com/tosiron/jazznet.


Cluster-based Deep Ensemble Learning for Emotion Classification in Internet Memes

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Memes have gained popularity as a means to share visual ideas through the Internet and social media by mixing text, images and videos, often for humorous purposes. Research enabling automated analysis of memes has gained attention in recent years, including among others the task of classifying the emotion expressed in memes. In this paper, we propose a novel model, cluster-based deep ensemble learning (CDEL), for emotion classification in memes. CDEL is a hybrid model that leverages the benefits of a deep learning model in combination with a clustering algorithm, which enhances the model with additional information after clustering memes with similar facial features. We evaluate the performance of CDEL on a benchmark dataset for emotion classification, proving its effectiveness by outperforming a wide range of baseline models and achieving state-of-the-art performance. Further evaluation through ablated models demonstrates the effectiveness of the different components of CDEL.