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'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' has the best opening weekend for a video game movie
Sonic has done it again. With a $71 million debut at the domestic box office, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has set a new record for the US film debut of a video game adaptation, beating out the previous high watermark set by its predecessor in 2020. The first movie in what now Paramount plans to expand into a cinematic universe made $57 million during its opening weekend. Before the pandemic shut down theaters throughout the US and other parts of the world, the first Sonic film went on to gross $319 million globally. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently on track to beat those earnings having grossed approximately $141 million globally.
Is Netflix stalking you?
Humans have the attention span of a goldfish, giving companies like Netflix just a few seconds to woe you before it loses you to a competing service or something other activity. Netflix wants to grab your attention say like a new boyfriend, but does it do this without spamming you with texts or calls? Getting a little technical here, Netflix relies heavy on batch machine learning approaches information gathered by algorithms that reflect A/B testing. Okay, Okay I know this was too much so imagine you are someone who watches more thrillers or mysteries you will see a thumbnail with Archie, Betty, and Veronica looking at you all intense emoting suspense. Now imagine me as someone who watches more romance and high-school drama, actually scrap that KNOW ME as someone who loves it -- I'm all about the notebook, the vow, and letters to Julliet.
Google says it classifies AI-generated content as 'spam'
All the publishers and editors out there thinking of replacing their journalists with AI might want to pump their brakes. Everybody's boss, the Google algorithm, classifies AI-generated content as spam. John Mueller, Google's SEO authority, laid the issue to rest while speaking at a recent "Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout." Per a report from Search Engine Journal's Matt Southern, Mueller says GPT-3 and other content generators are not considered quality content, no matter how convincingly human they are: These would, essentially, still fall into the category of automatically-generated content which is something we've had in the Webmaster Guidelines since almost the beginning. My suspicion is maybe the quality of content is a little bit better than the really old school tools, but for us it's still automatically-generated content, and that means for us it's still against the Webmaster Guidelines.
Top 10 Movies That Show Artificial Intelligence
As the technology behind artificial intelligence continues to develop, people are becoming more and more interested in how AI will affect our daily lives. Will we be able to hold conversations with our technology in the near future? Will we have household robots that can keep our houses clean? Many movies have explored these possibilities, and this list of the top 10 movies showing artificial intelligence will help you envision what life may be like as the world continues to advance toward true AI. The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures.
Le Monde launches digital English language edition, partly translated by AI
One of France's leading newspapers, Le Monde, has launched its first English-language digital edition with articles translated in part by artificial intelligence. The paper said it would start releasing a large range of English-language content as part of a mission to double its subscriber base to one million by 2025. The articles will be primarily translations of its French articles done "by international agencies, with the help of an artificial intelligence tool", though editing would be in the hands of English-speaking journalists. "The challenge is an ambitious one: to carve out a place for Le Monde in an English-speaking world where there is no shortage of quality media," the paper said in a statement. A selection of the articles will be free, but most will be behind a paywall, in keeping with the French edition's model.