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DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts
Have you ever thought up an idea for a movie or play that you just know will be a smash hit, but haven't gotten around to writing the script? Alphabet's DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help get you started. Dramatron is a so-called "co-writing" tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions and dialogue. The idea is that human writers will be able to compile, edit and rewrite what Dramatron comes up with into a proper script. Think of it like ChatGPT, but with output that you can edit into a blockbuster movie script.
Industry news in brief
This Digital Health News industry roundup includes a new online course for young people to build skills for a future career in care, a milestone for digital-first healthcare-at-home company Cera and the integration of Ibex Medical Analytics' AI platform with Source BioScience's pathology network. A partnership between Babyl – a subsidiary of Babylon – and Novo Nordisk will help contribute to the expansion of diabetes awareness and care in Rwanda through community engagement and skills building using digital technology. Babyl's existing infrastructure and digital tech will be used to offer digital consultations to patients across Rwanda. Patients who then receive a confirmed diagnosis will be guided to the correct level of care by a doctor or nurse. This could include medication or a referral for further tests.
What is ChatGPT? Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's new AI chatbot
It's the world's new favourite chatbot, having already amassed more than one million users less than a week after its public launch. But what exactly is ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence system created by a OpenAI, a US company that lists Elon Musk as one of its founders? Well, the chatbot is a large language model that has been trained on a massive amount of text data, allowing it to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt. Here, MailOnline looks at everything you need to know about ChatGPT, including how it works, who can use it, what it means for the future, and any concerns that have been raised. It is the world's new favourite chatbot, having already garnered more than one million users less than a week after its public launch. OpenAI says its ChatGPT model has been trained using a machine learning technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
ChatGPT's Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS
Out in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman named Rachel clings to the side of an oil rig. The wind whips her auburn hair into a wild tangle, and ocean spray drenches her jeans, but she climbs on, determined to uncover evidence of illegal drilling. When she arrives on board, however, she finds something far more sinister at play. This is a snippet of Oil and Darkness, a horror movie set on an oil rig. It features environmental activist Rachel, guilt-ridden rig foreman Jack, and shady corporate executive Ryan, who has been conducting dangerous research on a "new type of highly flammable oil." It's the kind of movie you could swear you caught the second half of once while late-night channel-hopping or dozed blearily through on a long-haul flight.
How businesses are deploying facial recognition
As facial recognition software becomes easier to acquire, businesses are using it to surveil and analyze customers. Bloomberg's Parmy Olson explains where and how the technology is being deployed. Parmy Olson is a journalist and opinion columnist for Bloomberg. Previously, Olson wrote about technology for The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. In 2012, she published her book: We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World Of LulzSec and the Global Cyber Insurgency.
AIhub coffee corner: Is AI-generated art devaluing the work of artists?
This month, we tackle the topic of AI-generated art and what this means for artists. Joining the discussion this time are: Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University), Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University), Michael Littman (Brown University), Lucy Smith (AIhub), Anna Tahovská (Czech Technical University), and Oskar von Stryk (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Sabine Hauert: This month our topic is AI-generated art. There are lots of questions relating to the value of the art that's generated by these AI systems, whether artists should be working with these tools, and whether that devalues the work that they do. Lucy Smith: I was interested in this case, whereby Shutterstock is now going to sell images created exclusively by OpenAI's DALL-E 2. They say that they're going to compensate the artists whose work they used in training the model, but I don't know how they are going to work out how much each training image has contributed to each created image that they sell.