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After em Jungle Cruise /em , Which Theme Park Attractions Should Disney Adapt Next?

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This weekend, Jungle Cruise heads upriver towards the deep, dark heart of box office success, marking the eleventh feature film or TV movie based on an attraction at a Disney theme park. The studio's return on these projects has been, let's say, uneven: The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been wildly successful, but the second-tier of Disney rides adapted for the big screen is a parade of embarrassments like The Haunted Mansion, oddities like Mission to Mars, and outright weirdness like the 1997 Tower of Terror TV movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Steve Gutenberg, a kid-friendly riff on The Shining that I promise actually exists: As Disney tries once again to create cinematic greatness out of amusement park rides, here are some of the Disney attractions that are most overdue for screen adaptations. Look, you can't create something as unholy and terrifying as the Donald Trump figure in the Hall of Presidents and not make a movie where it kills people, that's just mad science. The obvious choice for a Hall of Presidents movie would be a riff on Westworld or Five Nights at Freddy's, but this might work best as a Frankenstein-type story, as the audio-animatronic Trump cuts a bloody swath through the Imagineering department trying to find his creator and get him to admit he began life as Hillary Clinton. Maybe the Trump robot could team up with what's left of the original "Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln" figure from the 1964 New York World's Fair, who looks like he'd like to have a word or two with whoever stole his clothes: Verhoeven would knock this out of the park.


Artificial Intelligence Tools for Designers

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For graphic design, editing, and photography artists, AI can help provide more power and take resources to the next level in less time. Adobe Photoshop users can leverage the power of neural filters, an artificial intelligence feature that allows artists to make complex adjustments to highly detailed images in seconds. Using the smart portrait function, you can take pictures and experiment with the natural blending of facial characteristics, including gaze direction, subject position, and lighting angles. No need to manually edit for hours, you can do it by dragging the slider. Impeccable quality images are another important part of the creative process for image creators.


VinBrain wins ACM SIGAI Industry Award 2021 for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

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The 2021 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence is granted to DrAidTM - the AI-powered Assistant product for Radiologists developed by VinBrain (a subsidiary of Vingroup in Vietnam). This is one of the world's top awards, and only one AI product is selected as the winner each year. The award will be presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021 from August 19-26, 2021 in Canada. In 2019, the award was granted to Microsoft Corporation. The ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the world's top awards in the field of AI which is given annually to individuals or teams who have transferred original advanced academic research into AI applications.


Love robots + UI: The role of AI in the design industry

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The idea of creating a machine that can mimic human intelligence is a mainstay in the field of technology. We have already made the jump from "AI" being a movie from the early 2000s to something we take for granted as it sets our alarms for us on our iPhones. However, contrary to what we may believe, AI is still in a nascent space, and there are still some ways to go with regards to robots completely taking over the design industry. While humans spend a lot of time thinking out design solutions through a more hybrid creative/logical thought process, AI is a hyper-logical system of decisions that lead to largely predictable goals. That being said, AI presents a set of possibilities for designers (still human) in making more informed, if not sophisticated decisions.


Abstracting & Indexing โ€“ Artificial Intelligence โ€“ Journal โ€“ Elsevier

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The journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) welcomes papers on broad aspects of AI that constitute advances in the overall field including, but not limitedย โ€ฆ


S5 E8 How AI Avatars Can Transform Workplace Training -- The Art & Science of Learning

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One of the great challenges in learning new skills is being able to put them to practice in real scenarios. Although practicing in real scenarios offers critical learning, it also comes with serious risks. Can AI be the answer in creating on the job learning without the risks? My guest is an internationally recognized expert in AI in education and the technology he created helps people learn faster and more effectively. Dr Lewis Johnson co-founded Alelo in 2005 as a spinout of the University of Southern California, under his leadership Alelo has developed into a major producer of AI-driven learning products focusing on communication skills.


How AI Innovations Are Influencing All Aspects of Marketing

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Today artificial intelligence (AI) still sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it's undoubtedly real. AI is leaving its footprint in practically every industry, and marketing has been no exception. In this article, you'll discover how AI is changing marketing, and several ways organizations are using the technology to grow. Artificial Intelligence refers to any system able to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. AI can also do things that humans can't, such as mind-reading, and if you feel that's a bit problematic, you're not alone.


Fact check: Facebook didn't pull the plug on two chatbots because they created a language

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It's hard to escape artificial intelligence. From algorithms curating social media feeds to personal assistants on smartphones and home devices, AI has become part of everyday life for millions of people across the world. The future of that human-tech relationship may one day involve AI systems being able to learn entirely on their own, becoming more efficient, self-supervised and integrated within a variety of applications and professions. But some on social media claim this evolution toward AI autonomy has already happened. "Facebook recently shut down two of its AI robots named Alice & Bob after they started talking to each other in a language they made up," reads a graphic shared July 18 by the Facebook group Scary Stories & Urban Legends.


Council Post: The Entertainment Industry Must Lead The Green AI Revolution

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Ricky Ray Butler is CEO of BEN, an entertainment AI company that places brands into influencer, streaming, TV, music and film content. As everything in our lives -- including entertainment -- turns digital, we're starting to recognize the negative impact that digital consumption and technology have on the environment. For instance, Carbon Trust recently reported that streaming just one hour of the newest binge-worthy TV show requires the same amount of energy as boiling a kettle for six minutes. It might not sound like much, but it adds up quickly, especially as content consumption spiked in 2020 and our time spent engaging with digital media is expected to increase another nine minutes this year. Businesses and consumers alike are looking for ways to mitigate their carbon footprint, and people aren't just gaining awareness around sustainability when it comes to consumer and enterprise technology.


Deep learning could help visualise X-ray data in 3D

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Machine learning can make full use and go beyond what is currently possible," said Mathew Cherukara at Argonne.