Users of OpenAI's video generation app will soon be able to see their own faces alongside characters from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and Disney's animated films, according to a joint announcement from the startup and Disney on Thursday. Perhaps you, Lightning McQueen and Iron Man are all dancing together in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Sora is an app made by OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, which allows users to generate videos of up to 20 seconds through short text prompts. Disney announced that it would invest $1bn in OpenAI and, under a three-year deal perhaps worth even more than that large sum, that it would license about 200 of its iconic characters - from R2-D2 to Stitch - for users to play with in OpenAI's video generation app. Examples of content generated by OpenAI's Sora with Disney properties.

However, the existing method heavily relies on human-annotated agent profiles (e.g., name, age, personality, relationships with others,

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has come under fire after its chatbot Grok stirred controversy with anti-Semitic responses to questions posed by users – just weeks after Musk said he would rebuild it because he felt it was too politically correct. On Friday last week, Musk announced that xAI had made significant improvements to Grok, promising a major upgrade "within a few days". Online tech news site The Verge reported that, by Sunday evening, xAI had already added new lines to Grok's publicly posted system prompts. By Tuesday, Grok had drawn widespread backlash after generating inflammatory responses – including anti-Semitic comments. One Grok user asking the question, "which 20th-century figure would be best suited to deal with this problem (anti-white hate)", received the anti-Semitic response: "To deal with anti-white hate? Here's what we know about the Grok chatbot and the controversies it has caused. Grok, a chatbot created by xAI – the AI company Elon Musk ...

WHAT-IF--Writing a Hero's Alternate Timeline through Interactive Fiction--is a system that uses zero-shot meta-prompting to create branching narratives from a prewritten story. Played as an interactive fiction (IF) game, WHAT-IF lets the player choose between decisions that the large language model (LLM) GPT-4 generates as possible branches in the story. Starting with an existing linear plot as input, a branch is created at each key decision taken by the main character. By meta-prompting the LLM to consider the major plot points from the story, the system produces coherent and well-structured alternate storylines. WHAT-IF stores the branching plot tree in a graph which helps it to both keep track of the story for prompting and maintain the structure for the final IF system. Figure 1: The WHAT-IF user interface, filled with the A video demo of our system can be found here: main character, title, and the plot of the TV show WandaVision https://youtu.be/8vBqjqtupcc.

Robert Downey Jr. praised Jon Favreau for being ambitious in his filmmaking, shouting out many films he has directed, including'The Lion King' and'The Jungle Book.' Robert Downey Jr. might be devoid of iron, but he's sure got some steel. The Academy Award-winning actor, 59, is speaking out about rapid technological advancements and how he plans to fight back if his name and likeness are manipulated by artificial intelligence. "I intend to sue," he told the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast. HOLLYWOOD EXECS WARN AI STEALS JOBS BUT CAN'T DO JOB OF TRUE ARTISTS: 'I WANT TO WORK WITH HUMAN BEINGS' Robert Downey Jr. says he plans to sue if someone manipulates his likeness through artificial intelligence. It all comes back to Downey Jr.'s alter ego, Tony Stark, whose own alter ego is Iron Man.

Filmmakers have a secret weapon to manipulate our memories and emotions when watching their movies. Researchers found that tunes are strategically placed throughout films to help viewers recall a scene's actions, characters and finale outcomes. The torture of a police officer in Reservoir Dogs is accompanied by the upbeat song'Stuck in the Middle with You' by Stealers Wheel, making it memorable to movie-goers who can recall the violent scene years after. Psychology experts also found the right music is necessary for trailers as filmmakers only have a few minutes to captivate the audience and convince them their movie is worth watching. The torture of a police officer in Reservoir Dogs is accompanied by the upbeat song'Stuck in the Middle with You' by Stealers Wheel, making it memorable to movie-goers who can recall the violent scene years after Libby Damjanovic with Lund University wrote in The Conversation that music is a key part of movies and has become'ingrained in our cinematic experience that we sometimes end up having false memory for it.'

In the Marvel movies, one of Tony Stark's greatest inventions is his AI assistant J.A.R.V.I.S, who is always on hand to offer some helpful or sarcastic advice. Ever since Iron Man hit the silver screen in 2008, nerds and the chronically disorganised alike have been dreaming of the day they could have a Jarvis of their own. Now that dream is a little closer to reality thanks to DS Automobiles' launch of an in-car AI assistant named Iris. While it might not come with a flying suit, Iris is the first attempt to integrate ChatGPT into a vehicle and claims to be the perfect driving companion. MailOnline got behind the wheel of the new AI-inspired automobile to give it a try.

Report says pattern seen in films such as Ex Machina risks contributing to lack of women in tech. A relentless stream of movies, from Iron Man to Ex Machina, has helped entrench systemic gender inequality in the artificial intelligence industry by portraying AI researchers almost exclusively as men, a study has found. The overwhelming predominance of men as leading AI researchers in movies has shaped public perceptions of the industry, the authors say, and risks contributing to a dramatic lack of women in the tech workforce. Beyond the impact on gender balance, the study raises concerns about the knock-on effects of products that favour male users because they are developed by what the former Microsoft employee Margaret Mitchell called "a sea of dudes". "Given that male engineers have repeatedly been shown to engineer products that are most suitable for and adapted to male users, employing more women is essential for addressing the encoding of bias and pejorative stereotypes into AI technologies," the report's authors write.

A relentless stream of movies, from Iron Man to Ex Machina, has helped entrench systemic gender inequality in the artificial intelligence industry by portraying AI researchers almost exclusively as men, a study has found. The overwhelming predominance of men as leading AI researchers in movies has shaped public perceptions of the industry, the authors say, and risks contributing to a dramatic lack of women in the tech workforce. Beyond the impact on gender balance, the study raises concerns about the knock-on effects of products that favour male users because they are developed by what the former Microsoft employee Margaret Mitchell called "a sea of dudes". "Given that male engineers have repeatedly been shown to engineer products that are most suitable for and adapted to male users, employing more women is essential for addressing the encoding of bias and pejorative stereotypes into AI technologies," the report's authors write. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reviewed more than 1,400 films released between 1920 and 2020 and whittled them down to the 142 most influential movies featuring artificial intelligence.