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'Terminator' director James Cameron flip-flops on AI, says Hollywood is 'looking at it all wrong'
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. James Cameron's stance on artificial intelligence has evolved over the past few years, and he feels Hollywood needs to embrace it in a few different ways. Cameron joined the board of directors for Stability AI last year, explaining his decision on the "Boz to the Future" podcast last week. "The goal was to understand the space, to understand what's on the minds of the developers," he said. How much resources you have to throw at it to create a new model that does a purpose-built thing, and my goal was to try to integrate it into a VFX workflow." He continued by saying the shift to AI is a necessary one. James Cameron wants Hollywood to implement AI more for big-budget films. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I've always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see – 'Dune,' 'Dune: Part Two' or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films – we've got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half. That's about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things and then other cool things, right? Cameron doesn't think films are ultimately "a big target" for companies like OpenAI. "Their goal is not to make GenAI movies.
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9 More Cool Things From CES 2023: Health Tech, Headphones, TVs
Citizen has a new watch, but not the kind of watch you might be thinking about. The CZ Smart is a Wear 3 smartwatch, meaning it's running the latest wearable operating system from Google. You can see and respond to your notifications, control your smart home devices, and so on, but Citizen is trying to make its own mark in the smartwatch space with an app that aims to help you stay at your best the whole day. The YouQ app is based on research from Nasa and utilizes IBM's Watson machine intelligence platform to monitor your habits over a period of seven to 10 days. It uses the sensors on the watch to check your sleep and heart rate to establish some baseline measurements. After that, you'll be able to see the times of the day where you seem to be the most productive.
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7 Interesting Experiments with ChatGPT – Towards AI
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AI Emerging Technologies to Watch
One of the most exciting projects I have been lucky enough to work on at Intel was leading the engineering team tasked with designing, implementing and deploying the software platform that enabled large-scale training based on Habana Gaudi processors for MLPerf. I learned a lot on how to scale AI Training across a large hardware cluster, as well the challenges of building just building a data center. One thing that stood out was the immense amount of hardware, manual labor and power required to drive such a compute-intensive effort. Modern AI/ML solutions have shown that given a large amount of computing resources, we can create amazing solutions to complex problems. Applications leveraging solutions such as DALL·E and GPT-3 to generate images or create human-like research papers are truly mind-blowing.
A.I.-Generated Adventure Game Rewrites Itself Every Time You Play Digital Trends
What would an adventure game designed by the world's most dangerous A.I. look like? A neuroscience grad student is here to help you find out. Earlier this year, OpenAI, an A.I. startup once sponsored by Elon Musk, created a text-generating bot deemed too dangerous to ever release to the public. Called GPT-2, the algorithm was designed to generate text so humanlike that it could convincingly pass itself off as being written by a person. Feed it the start of a newspaper article, for instance, and it would dream up the rest, complete with imagined quotes.
Avoid Nightmares -- NSFW JS
You can use NSFW JS to identify indecent content without having files ever leave the client's machine, even defensively if you can't control the content being delivered. Ever see something that when you go to bed, those same images are there when you close your eyes? And I'm not talking about one of those good dreams, like Nicolas Cage or something, but the kind that if you have it on your screen when the boss walks by, you'll be looking for a new job. User input can be disgusting. One of my friends made their own online store back in the day, and it allowed for negative quantities. Malicious users would buy $50 of shirts, and then add MINUS $40 in shirts, effectively discounting their own orders!
5 more cool things from CES 2019: Batman Immersive Experience, digital license plates and more
A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. LAS VEGAS – You enter the backseat of a tricked out BMW SUV X5, imagine it's a self-driving car of the future and look to be entertained. A movie screen pops up and offers you 270 degrees worth of choices – how about a visual Batman comic book, a movie trailer or a complete film? Sit in this BMW and listen to the sounds of multiple speakers pumping out stereo, and hi-def resolution on the screen, and let's face it – how could you argue that this wasn't really cool? The Batman Immersive Experience, from computer chip maker Intel and Batman owner Warner Media, is just one of five cool things we saw on the second day of CES previews. The trade floor of the CES officially opens to the public Tuesday.
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1 -- Cool things this week – Hacker Noon
Welcome to the Cool things this week series. Every week, I'll share a few of papers or articles I've come across. The hope is that others will share some links in the comments section. This category will include breakthroughs that have the potential of enhancing humans or the world we live in. The authors present BrainNet, the first "multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving…the interface allows three human subjects to collaborate and solve a task using direct brain-to-brain communication."
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5 more cool things we saw at CES 2018
LAS VEGAS -- Pet tech is everywhere here at CES 2018. Sony has the cutest new pet robot dog, named Aibo, and it will only cost you around $1,700 to buy it, plus a monthly fee of around $25 to operate it. Okay, it's not cheap, but Aibo moves, responds, is never hungry and it will wow your friends. Or, you could pick up the Qoobo for a relative song: just $100 for a robot that is cat-like. Qoobo purrs when petted and wags its tail. This is Sony's Aibo robot dog.
ETH Zurich's Omnicopter Plays Fetch
Most aircraft are designed to be very good at going upwards, and also not bad at going forwards, with some relatively small amount of thought given to turning left and right. Thanks to gravity, downwards is usually taken care of. Even aircraft designed to hover, like helicopters and quadrotors, have preferential directions of orientation and travel where their particular arrangement of motors and control surfaces makes them most effective. ETH Zurich's Omnicopter goes about flying in a totally different way. With eight motors oriented in all directions, the Omnicopter doesn't have an up or down or front or back: It can translate and rotate in any direction, letting it play a very skilled game of fetch. We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude.