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Hollywood's Love Affair With Fictional Languages
For big fans of James Cameron's Avatar, the 13-year wait between the original and this year's sequel probably felt near interminable. But die-hard fans might have counted with a bit more agony and say it's actually been vomrra zìsìt, or "15 years." Rather, the blue-skinned Na'vi people, who inhabit the planet Pandora in Cameron's universe, have four digits per hand. As a result, their language--painstakingly built from scratch for the movies--uses base-eight counting instead of the human base-10. Fifteen in Na'vi actually means eight plus five (as opposed to 10 plus five in English), making it the equivalent of our 13.
5 Creative Fields Where AI Is Accelerating
AI art can make you uneasy about where the future of creative industries is heading. Even knowing where AI is used is far from clear, since a lot of AI-generated art, music, writing, and videos pass deceptively like something a human created. To help you navigate the AI landscape, this article will explain how AI is being used in five different creative industries. As these AI tools become more available, you might find your own creative use for some of the mind-boggling AI software mentioned below. Creating art using AI systems seems impossible to believe until the results appear before your eyes like magic.