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Can YOU guess the movie from this AI cartoon? Film scenes reimagined by AI is both stunning & scary

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The art revolution that has swept the globe is now allowing people to reimagine scenes from their favourite films. In recent months the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create incredible images has exploded, with the internet now awash with millions of pictures designed by computers. As the demand for AI-altered celebrity portraits has risen, it is no surprise that digital artist David Lloyd-Jones decided to create both stunning and scary recreations of iconic moments from popular films. Now, MailOnline is challenging you to identify which films the recreations are from. Can you guess which classic horror-thriller is depicted in this recreation?


News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot's Media Diet

WIRED

Two years ago, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a US congressional hearing that tech companies like his own had not been sufficiently paying media companies for the news content that helps fuel search engines like Bing and Google. "What we're talking about here is far bigger than us," he said, testifying alongside news executives. "Let's hope that, if a century from now people are not using iPhones or laptops or anything that we have today, journalism itself is still alive and well. Because our democracy depends on it." Smith said tech companies should do more and that Microsoft was committed to continuing "healthy revenue-sharing" with news publishers, including licensing articles for Microsoft news apps.


"Why is this misleading?": Detecting News Headline Hallucinations with Explanations

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Automatic headline generation enables users to comprehend ongoing news events promptly and has recently become an important task in web mining and natural language processing. With the growing need for news headline generation, we argue that the hallucination issue, namely the generated headlines being not supported by the original news stories, is a critical challenge for the deployment of this feature in web-scale systems Meanwhile, due to the infrequency of hallucination cases and the requirement of careful reading for raters to reach the correct consensus, it is difficult to acquire a large dataset for training a model to detect such hallucinations through human curation. In this work, we present a new framework named ExHalder to address this challenge for headline hallucination detection. ExHalder adapts the knowledge from public natural language inference datasets into the news domain and learns to generate natural language sentences to explain the hallucination detection results. To evaluate the model performance, we carefully collect a dataset with more than six thousand labeled pairs. Extensive experiments on this dataset and another six public ones demonstrate that ExHalder can identify hallucinated headlines accurately and justifies its predictions with human-readable natural language explanations.


Exploiting Programmatic Behavior of LLMs: Dual-Use Through Standard Security Attacks

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent advances in instruction-following large language models (LLMs) have led to dramatic improvements in a range of NLP tasks. Unfortunately, we find that the same improved capabilities amplify the dual-use risks for malicious purposes of these models. Dual-use is difficult to prevent as instruction-following capabilities now enable standard attacks from computer security. The capabilities of these instruction-following LLMs provide strong economic incentives for dual-use by malicious actors. In particular, we show that instruction-following LLMs can produce targeted malicious content, including hate speech and scams, bypassing in-the-wild defenses implemented by LLM API vendors. Our analysis shows that this content can be generated economically and at cost likely lower than with human effort alone. Together, our findings suggest that LLMs will increasingly attract more sophisticated adversaries and attacks, and addressing these attacks may require new approaches to mitigations.


What is Artificial Intelligence and How does it work?

#artificialintelligence

Artificial Intelligence or AI is an interdisciplinary science that is concerned with the advancements in machine learning and deep learning that will help build smart machines capable of performing tasks that would typically require human intelligence. The term artificial intelligence was first coined in the 1960s when a group of scientists and mathematicians met at Dartmouth College to discuss the idea of a computer that could think on its own. While science fiction movies, television shows, and novels have made us believe that AI is sentient robots, however, in actuality artificial intelligence refers to the development of algorithms and learning systems that are based on a simple principle that human intelligence can be defined in a way that a machine can easily mimic and execute the task on the basis of it. Many believe that AI systems will soon exceed the capacity of humans to learn or reason because of the pace at which artificial research and development are taking place. These systems were task-specific and had no memory.


The 40 Best Movies on Netflix This Week

WIRED

Netflix has plenty of movies to watch, but it's a real mixed bag. Sometimes finding the right film at the right time can seem like an impossible task. Fret not, we're here to help. Below is a list of some of our favorite films currently on the streaming service--from dramas to comedies to thrillers. If you decide you're in more of a TV mood, head over to our collection of the best TV series on Netflix. Check out our lists of the best sci-fi movies, best movies on Amazon Prime, and the best flicks on Disney . It's easy to imagine that the elevator pitch for The Sea Beast was "Moby Dick meets How to Train Your Dragon"--and who wouldn't be compelled by that? Set in a fantasy world where oceanic leviathans terrorize humanity, those who hunt down the giant monsters are lauded as heroes.


Arcane Is a Work of Art

WIRED

The Netflix series Arcane, a collaboration between Riot Games and Studio Fortiche, is an animated show based on the popular computer game League of Legends. Science fiction author Zach Chapman loved Arcane, despite having never played League of Legends. "You don't have to have any knowledge of the game," Chapman says in Episode 536 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "In fact, less knowledge of the game is even better. It doesn't need any of that. It just works really great as a standalone show."


The People Who Study Fungus Know Why It's Suddenly Taking Over Horror

Slate

HBO's smash-hit adaptation The Last of Us is the latest in a string of horror stories featuring fungi as the source of fear. The zombie-like outbreak that takes place in the show, which is based on the dystopian video game series of the same name, stems from a mutated version of a parasitic mushroom which fictionally evolves to attack humans instead of insects. In Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the narrator knows something isn't right with a family and their mansion, and soon discovers an intergenerational secret intertwined with a mycelium network. In last year's What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher, it's a mycologist who discovers the root of the town's sudden mysterious illnesses. Science-fiction's fungal fascination goes back much farther.


Sony A7R V review: Awesome images, improved video, unbeatable autofocus

Engadget

Sony's full-frame A7R IV was one of the best mirrorless cameras I've ever reviewed, so there was a lot of pressure on its successor. The company's answer is the 61-megapixel A7R V, designed to deliver the maximum amount of detail for portrait and landscape photography. Though it uses the same sensor as the A7R IV, the new model has been improved in nearly every other way. The processors have been updated to the same ones found on the 50-megapixel A1, allowing for faster autofocus and AI tracking and better video specs. Sony has also improved the stabilization, the rear display, EVF and more โ€“ all for the same $3,900 price as its chief rival, the Canon EOS R5.


Review: 'Hogwarts Legacy' Has No Magic

WIRED

I don't even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We're here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow (or the abyss), because this one's gonna take a lot out of both of us. Hogwarts Legacy is a third-person action-RPG set in the same universe as the classic Harry Potter series of children's books. In case you need a refresher, those books, the Wizarding World setting, and the Harry Potter film franchise are all the intellectual property and brainchildren of author J. K. Rowling.