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For the quartet of tech billionaires in Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead, ideas are so powerful that nothing else seems real. Holed up in a resplendent snowy retreat built by meditation-app developer Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), they're glued to their phones as the outside world is erupting into chaos, thanks in no small part to the wildfire spread of A.I. deepfakes on the social media platform owned by the world's richest man, Venis Parish (Cory Michael Smith). People in Gujarat are being burned alive after being falsely accused of desecrating religious symbols, and Midwestern Americans are machine-gunning each other over minor disagreements, but for these four men, the widespread devastation is in some ways proof of concept that they're as important as they believe themselves to be. And besides, those bodies going up in flames are just images on a tiny screen, so distant they might as well be theoretical. As he trudges through the snow with Randall (Steve Carell), the venture capitalist who serves as the group's self-appointed philosopher king, Venis asks him, "Do you … believe in other people?"

From Richard Attenborough in'Miracle on 34th Street' to Kurt Russell in'The Christmas Chronicles' a number of famous actors have taken on the role of Santa Claus in blockbuster hits through the years. But who would take on the leading role if Hollywood cast a new movie featuring Father Christmas? To answer this burning question, MailOnline turned to ChatGPT. While the AI bot says that casting for a dream Santa would depend on the tone and style of the film, it suggests five actors who could take on the role. So, do you agree with its star-studded suggestions?

This week, the panel is joined by Slate writer and senior editor Sam Adams to dissect Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos horny, steampunk Frankenstein tale about Bella Baxter (played by Emma Stone), a pregnant woman who commits suicide then is brought back to life by a brilliant scientist (Willem Dafoe), with an eccentric caveat: She now has the brain of her unborn fetus. Then, the three remember Norman Lear, the late television pioneer and American icon who died at the age of 101 and who was responsible for ushering in a new era of character-driven, comedic, topical, and morally serious TV with hit sitcoms like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, and One Day at a Time. Finally, they are joined by Slate's books and culture columnist, Laura Miller, who shares her top ten books of the year, and along with Dana, discusses the joys and challenges of year-end listmaking. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel reunites with Sam Adams to spoil Poor Things, detailing what is arguably the film's weakest portion: the final ten minutes. The deadline to submit is Wednesday, December 13.

Greta Gerwig's hotly-anticipated Barbie movie has finally hit the big screen – and is set to supercharge the cinema industry left decimated by Covid. 'Barbie' – which is competing with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer for box office success – stars Australian actress Margot Robbie as the titular character and Ryan Gosling as her boyfriend Ken. Robbie pays tribute to the original doll created by US inventor Ruth Handler, who saw a gap in the market after noticing not many children's dolls resembled adults. Whether Barbie has a positive influence on the kids who play with her has been one of the most contentious issues in the industry since she first hit shelves in 1959. Here, MailOnline looks at the long-lasting effects a Barbie doll can have on a child's development, according to scientific studies.

It's been years since we have seen artificial intelligence implemented in many software applications, but more recently ChatGPT and other similar AI have become extremely popular for their ability to generate text, images, and even code. With the announcement of the new GPT-4 from OpenAI this week, users are already exploring its potential. It can even create iPhone apps using SwiftUI. For those unfamiliar, GPT or Generative Pre-training Transformer is the technology behind the popular ChatGPT. The new version, named GPT-4, shows a "massive leap in the field of natural language processing."

Tom Hanks was seen speaking at the Australian premiere of "Elvis" earlier this month. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright will be reuniting and going back in time in an upcoming film. "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis' "Here" will star Wright and Hanks, digitally "de-aged," thanks to Metaphysic, an AI company that will bring the experience to life. The film adaption of Richard McGuire's novel will also star Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly. "Here" is set to be released 30 years later in 2024.

Neural Networks (NNs), or Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), started as a big promise, and their models were quite simple compared to the models we have today: it was a simple neuron with binary outputs based on thresholds. In layman terms, it would read values as input, sum them weighted by parameters (called learning weights, where the knowledge is stored), and compared to a threshold: if it is higher, the output is one (it simulated the firing of a neuron in biology, which follows similar patterns). Except for the big hope people placed on them, they could, and still, can only separate binary boundaries: yes or no, sick or no, guilty or no. Nonetheless, do not fall prey to the common trap that simplicity as being easy: boundaries can be hard even for complex decision processes, such as release or not a patient under healthcare, or release or not a prisoner after some appeals to do so. From one side, we had some people from neuroscience seeing on the models possible explanations for their biological phenomena (i.e., in silico simulations, it was quite appealing that we could simplify the brain workings using such a simple model, based on summations). On the other hand, applied mathematical and computer scientists looking for new solutions for their complex problems out of the box (e.g., XOR problem[1], it is a problem simple for humans, but hard for machines).

Aidan Connolly is the President of AgriTech Capital, a food/farm futurologist, and author of "2-1-4-3, Plan your Explosive Business Growth." A recent Taylor Swift lyric says, "I think I've seen this film before." This is the traditional reaction of jaded food sector leaders accustomed to the boom-and-bust cycle of commodities and changing consumer fads and fashions. This time, however, it seems like a different story--a script we haven't seen before. The cues that tell us if the movie is going to be happy (boom) or sad (bust) are mixed.