AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from McGill University have recently directed a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time and found that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics. "Reporting on real-world events requires complex choices, including decisions about which events and players take center stage. By comparing what was reported with what could have been reported, our study provides perspective on the editorial choices made by news agencies," says Professor Andrew Piper of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.

One of the companies behind text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion is hosting a film festival exclusively for shorts that were made with AI. Organizers of Runway ML's AI Film Festival are accepting films with a runtime of between one and 10 minutes that either include AI-generated content or were pieced together with AI-powered editing techniques. According to Fast Company, Runway said creators won't be penalized if they use AI tools from other companies. Along with text-to-image generation, creatives can use techniques such as background removal, frame interpolation and motion tracking to help make their films. "I think we're heading to a future where a lot of the content and the entertainment and the media that you see online will be generated," Runway cofounder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela said.

Does AI have the capacity to think independently or to feel empathy? And would you end up with some AI machines being very conservative and others being very liberal? Their conclusions are going to be based on the data they are given. We live in the age of alternative truths. So effectively even if they speak their "minds" it's speech based on the data they've been fed.

Amazon's Echo Show 15 is now useful as a tiny TV. The company has released a promised free update that brings the Fire TV interface to the smart display. As on other devices, you can stream from a range of apps (including Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube) with an on-screen carousel that helps you find content and resume shows. This will be familiar to anyone who's used even a basic Fire TV Stick, but the Echo Show's design offers a few interface twists. You can use Alexa to open apps or stream specific content, and use either a paired Alexa Voice Remote or the controls in the mobile Fire TV app to navigate without smudging the screen.

Article: Lensa, the AI portrait app, has soared in popularity. But many artists question the ethics of AI art. Then, for a fee, the artificial-intelligence software creates different portraits of the user, in all kinds of styles, like anime, manga, etc. While users get images that they like, some images can get pretty crazy! And, once again, like in any artificial-intelligence-art software, there is the debate about the software being trained on images from the internet, including from popular living artists.

On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing artists to submit AI-generated imagery for sale, Axios reports. The move comes during Adobe's embrace of image synthesis and also during industry-wide efforts to deal with the rapidly growing field of AI artwork in the stock art business, including earlier announcements from Shutterstock and Getty Images. Submitting AI-generated imagery to Adobe Stock comes with a few restrictions. The artist must own (or have the rights to use) the image, AI-synthesized artwork must be submitted as an illustration (even if photorealistic), and it must be labeled with "Generative AI" in the title. Further, each AI artwork must adhere to Adobe's new Generative AI Content Guidelines, which require the artist to include a model release for any real person depicted realistically in the artwork.

Many smartphones these days offer artificial bokeh in their portrait photography modes, but with the help of a retractable camera, you can achieve true optical bokeh without missing any edges. Chinese brand Tecno is now bringing such a feature to its latest flagship device, the Phantom X2 Pro 5G, which packs a "world-first" pop-out portrait lens. This is just a little over two years after Xiaomi showed off a retractable 120mm-equivalent wide aperture lens, but it never left the prototype stage. Tecno's intriguing portrait camera has a 50-megapixel resolution with a relatively large 1/2.7-inch Optically, this 2.5x zoom lens offers an f/1.49

The car project, dubbed Titan inside the company, has been in limbo for the past several months as Apple executives grappled with the reality that its vision for a fully autonomous vehicle -- without a steering wheel or pedals -- isn't feasible with current technology. In a significant shift for the project, the company is now planning a less-ambitious design that will include a steering wheel and pedals and only support full autonomous capabilities on highways, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The latest changes underscore the challenge Apple faces in pushing into an entirely new product category and taking on technological obstacles that have bedeviled some of the world's biggest companies. The secretive project, underway for years, is meant to provide Apple with another major moneymaker, but it also could test the limits of the iPhone maker's capabilities.

It seems it is useful in many ways though it is not fully accurate as of now. You can try it at https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ Graphene is a two-dimensional form of carbon that has been studied extensively for its unique properties. It is made up of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, and is known for its strength, flexibility, and high electrical and thermal conductivity. Graphene has many potential applications, including in electronics, energy storage, and biotechnology.

Type "Teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s" into any of the recently released text-to-image artificial intelligence image generators, and after just a few seconds the sophisticated software will produce an eerily pertinent image. Seemingly bound by only your imagination, this latest trend in synthetic media has delighted many, inspired others and struck fear in some. Google, research firm OpenAI and AI vendor Stability AI have each developed a text-to-image image generator powerful enough that some observers are questioning whether in the future people will be able to trust the photographic record. As a computer scientist who specializes in image forensics, I have been thinking a lot about this technology: what it is capable of, how each of the tools have been rolled out to the public, and what lessons can be learned as this technology continues its ballistic trajectory. Although their digital precursor dates back to 1997, the first synthetic images splashed onto the scene just five years ago.