It's been instructive to see "Ballerina," which opens this week, so soon after the new "Mission: Impossible" installment. In the latter, it's hard to top Tom Cruise's intrepid stunt work, which reaches its zenith in a pair of extended sequences (one in a submarine, the other on biplanes), but the story, involving a diabolical scheme using A.I. to commandeer and launch the world's nuclear weaponry, is a mere pretext. Going to "Mission: Impossible" for the story is like going to Casablanca for the waters. In contrast, "Ballerina"--like the four John Wick films that it's spun off from--is, strangely, far better at story than at action. The first John Wick film is the weakest, because the framework for the franchise was still unformed: a retired hit man (Keanu Reeves) gets back into action to respond to a mobster's attacks.

When AI tools like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion turned your short text prompts into digital art? Meet Frida, an AI-driven robot out of Carnegie Mellon University that transforms your prompts into physical paintings, complete with bold brushstrokes in a variety of techniques. Perhaps most strikingly, the bot can change course as it paints to mimic the iterative nature of making art. "It will work with its failures and it will alter its goals," Peter Schaldenbrand, a Ph.D. student at CMU's School of Computer Science and one of the robot's creators, said in a video describing the project. Frida aims to explore the intersection of robots and creativity, says the team, which presents its research paper this May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London.

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A new AI can make anybody look like a dance superstar by giving them the moves of a professional dancer. The creepy robot uses the movements of top dancers captured from a video to animate your body in a creepy'DeepFake'-style video. Experts behind the technology said it allows amateurs to'twirl like ballerinas', or perfectly imitate their favourite pop stars. A new AI can make anybody look like a dance superstar by giving them the moves of a professional dancer. The creepy robot uses the movements of top dancers (left) captured from a video to animate your body (right images) in a creepy'DeepFake'-style video The AI, developed by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, first copies the moves of a professional dancer from a source video.

Last year, director Oscar Sharp and AI researcher Ross Goodwin released the stunningly weird short film Sunspring. It was a sci-fi tale written entirely by an algorithm that eventually named itself Benjamin. Now the two humans have teamed up with Benjamin again to create a follow-up movie, It's No Game, about what happens when AI gets mixed up in an impending Hollywood writers' strike. Ars is excited to debut the movie here, so go ahead and watch. We also talked to the film cast and creators about what it's like to work with an AI.

On a recent Saturday morning, my wife, Susan, and I slipped into the city to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a place we hadn't gone together since before our sons were born. The crowds hadn't yet descended and for an hour or so we wandered around and absorbed the cavernous hush of art. We separated for a bit, together but apart; while Susan roamed among the Manets and Van Goghs I slipped into a small side gallery, not much larger than a subway car, that held a series of glass cases with small bronze sculptures by Degas. There were a few busts and several horses in stride and the figure of a woman stretching, a small bronze rising to her feet and curling her left arm upward as if waking from a long nap. At the end of the gallery, in one long case, were two dozen ballerinas in various states of motion or repose.

Maestro: A computer has created a remix of of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony which is to be played in public for the first time tonight It's enough to make Beethoven roll over in his grave. A computer programme that composes music by monitoring a person's emotional response to sounds, is to have one of its musical creations performed by a full chamber orchestra at a prestigious music festival tonight. Using its artificial intelligence, the silicon songsmith has produced a remix of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, which will be performed by the The Ten Tors Orchestra at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival in Plymouth. Researchers played the German composer's seminal piece to three test subjects as they underwent MRI scans while the programme monitored their brains for emotional indicators. Then using a programmed knowledge of music, it generated a new piece designed to create a similar emotional response.

PlayStation has just revealed the 10 new video games that it is digitally launching on PS4 this Tuesday, Aug. 16. On Sunday, PlayStation social media specialist Ryan Clements took to the company's official U.S. blog to share the video games that are heading to the PS4 this week, starting with the ballet adventure "Bound." Developed by the same team responsible for "Linger in Shadows" and "Datura," "Bound" is an artistic game that follows the journey of a ballerina to a world filled with her childhood memories. In her journey to unraveling the mystery of her childhood, she will be in the midst of a cacophony of colors and an abundance of imagery, memory and metaphor. Apart from the risky obstacles and distracting aesthetic elements in the background, players must also control the ballerina in order for her to dance her way through the different levels and beat the monster lurking in the peculiar world that's also filled with puzzles.