'Our cast is representative of the world' (from left) Jimmy Gonzales, Matt Damon and Himesh Patel in The Odyssey. 'Our cast is representative of the world' (from left) Jimmy Gonzales, Matt Damon and Himesh Patel in The Odyssey. Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make'historically accurate' AI adaptation of Homer's Odyssey The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer's original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan's blockbuster over its casting choices Elon Musk has said his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, after the success of Christopher Nolan's blockbusting treatment which the SpaceX founder has regularly criticised over its casting. In a post on X, Musk said: "Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer." Musk also linked to a post containing a three-minute clip of footage that the user said had been generated from Grok Imagine, showing a scene between Odysseus and the nymph Calypso.

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You're only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook AI company ElevenLabs unveils its officially licensed replica of the iconic actor's voice in a retelling of Homer's epic poem, while director who previously recorded the star recalls real-life experience Next month, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster version of The Odyssey is set to storm cinemas around the globe. Auguries suggest the almost three-hour drama will repeat the success of Nolan's previous film both at the box office (Oppenheimer took nearly a billion dollars) and the Academy Awards (it won seven Oscars). But before that, a new audiobook version of Homer's tale has been released starring one of Nolan's most frequent collaborators: Michael Caine, with whom he has worked on eight films, including the Dark Knight trilogy. Caine, now 93, announced his retirement at the Red Sea film festival in Saudi Arabia last December. It was the fourth time he has done so, and seems as unlikely to be binding as the previous three times, particularly thanks to a deal the actor struck shortly beforehand to license an AI version of his voice.

The New Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. Emily Wilson's 2017 translation of Homer's epic--the first by a woman--was called a woke "abomination" by online reactionaries. Christopher Nolan's film is facing similar critiques. Who'd have thought Helen of Troy would cause so much trouble? Earlier this year, certain quarters of the internet spun out at news that Kenyan-Mexican Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o was rumored to appear as the impossibly beautiful Spartan noble Helen--whose face, it was later written, launched a thousand ships--in Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Hollywood Homeric epic, The Odyssey The confirmation of her casting in May kicked off another wave of conniption fits.

One key decision for heuristic search algorithms is how to balance exploration and exploitation. In classical planning, novelty search has come out as the most successful approach in this respect. The idea is to favor states that contain previously unseen facts when searching for a plan. This is done by maintaining a record of the tuples of facts observed in previous states. Then the novelty of a state is the size of the smallest previously unseen tuple. The most successful version of novelty search is best-first width search (BFWS), which combines novelty measures with heuristic estimates. An orthogonal approach to balance exploration-exploitation is to use several open-lists. These open-lists are ordered using different heuristic estimates, which diversify the information used in the search. The search algorithm then alternates between these open-lists, trying to exploit these different estimates. This is the approach used by LAMA, a classical planner that, a decade after its release, is still considered state-of-the-art in agile planning. In this paper, we study how to combine LAMA and BFWS. We show that simply adding the strongest open-list used in BFWS to LAMA harms performance. However, we show that combining only parts of each planner leads to a new state-of-the-art agile planner.

I am a few episodes from the end of the series Fallout on Prime Video. In other words, it's just like the games, which veer between quiet, tragic moments exploring the vestiges of America, and being chased down a hill by irradiated scorpions because you've run out of ammo. Fallout's ensemble cast – with Walton Goggins' almost-immortal ghoul and Ella Purnell's wide-eyed vault-dweller the standouts – lets it cleverly compartmentalise the different aspects of the games' personality. As its director Jonathan Nolan pointed out, when I interviewed him last week alongside Bethesda's Todd Howard (the director of the games), this is a common device in TV storytelling but rare in games. Grand Theft Auto V does it successfully: each of the three protagonists represented a different part of GTA's DNA (Trevor the violent chaos, Michael the prestige crime drama, Franklin the Compton realism). But in most games we play one character, and we know them intimately by the end – or we get to shape them, and they become unique to us.

For more than a decade, blockbuster comic book adaptations reliably clobbered all competition at the box office. Disney and HBO Max built their streaming strategies around intellectual property from Marvel and DC Comics. The studios turned this pulpy source material into a profusion of interconnected films and series that consistently drove ticket sales and subscriptions--until they didn't. Lately, serious superhero fatigue seems to have set in. Comic book movies regularly tank these days, and not just the ones based on second-string characters like Blue Beetle and Madame Web.

For decades, it seemed like Hollywood couldn't get a video game adaptation right. Movies like Double Dragon, Super Mario Bros., and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider were all critically panned, with their creators called out for either sticking too close to the source material, failing to capture the magic of the games, or casting actors who didn't really embrace the films' inherent campiness. In recent years, though, there's been a shift in game adaptations, with projects like The Last of Us and Werewolves Within achieving critical acclaim and--in the case of the former, at least--a boatload of awards nods. You could point to a number of reasons to try to explain why game adaptations are getting better (Pedro Pascal, for example), but Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of Amazon Prime Video's new series Fallout, says he thinks it's because games often have "more sophisticated, more interesting, and more daring" storytelling than is often found in film or TV. When Nolan first started playing Fallout 3 in 2009, while trying to write The Dark Knight Rises, he was taken aback.

'Oppenheimer' swept away the competition at the 2024 Oscars, receiving seven awards including earning renowned director Christopher Nolan his first golden man statuette. While this is the filmmaker's first major award-winning film, he has been producing movies since 1998 when he made Following - and has made 10 more since. We asked ChatGPT to rank his other 11 films dating back to 26 years to the'Following' and 2010 film'Inception' up through his his 2012 film'The Dark Knight Rises' and his 2020 film'Tenet.' Renowned director Christopher Nolan took home his first Oscar for his critically acclaimed film, ' Oppenheimer.' The historic film starred Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos lab that designed and built the world's first atomic bomb during World War II - he is often known as the'father of the atomic bomb' Oppenheimer swept the box office when it was released on July 21, 2023, reeling in a whopping 82.4 million in opening weekend, winning Nolan Best Picture and Best Director during Sunday's award show.