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Revealed: The hilarious slang used in London 300 years ago - so, do YOU know your 'fuddle cups' from your 'cackling farts'?

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Why Hollywood Really Fears Generative AI

WIRED

The future of Hollywood looks a lot like Deepfake Ryan Reynolds selling you a Tesla. In a video, since removed but widely shared on Twitter, the actor is bespectacled in thick black frames, his mouth mouthing independently from his face, hawking electric vehicles: "How much do you think it would cost to own a car that's this fucking awesome?" On the verisimilitude scale, the video, which originally circulated last month, registered as blatantly unreal. Then its creator, financial advice YouTuber Kevin Paffrath, revealed he had made it as a ploy to attract the gaze of Elon Musk. Elsewhere on Twitter, people beseeched Reynolds to sue.


AI paradigms

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The unsupervised learning is used for datasets whose items are not labeled and, therefore, our goal now is just to learn some patterns in the dataset. How do we train an unsupervised model? Using the same example as in supervised learning section, the cacti and Ryan Reynolds are now provided to the model without any label nor train or test split. The fact that the data are not labeled, "Unsupervised paradigm" means that we have no test set. If we have no test set we need to validate our model based on other methods like cluster cohesion.


How close are we to Free Guy's digital awareness? The Science Behind the Fiction

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Free Guy bills itself as a comedy, but it exists in a world in which Ryan Reynolds doesn't exist. Which, of course, makes it a tragedy. The movie solves this problem by building its own Ryan Reynolds out of code, inside a video game. But, Guy (Reynolds) is more than just a simple NPC. In truth, the emergence of Guy as a fully-fledged awareness inside the game wasn't wholly directed.


How em Free Guy /em Made Its Fight Scenes Look Like an Actual Video Game

Slate

Free Guy, the new movie about a non-player character who discovers he's trapped inside a video game, is built around a series of fight scenes that are, for want of a better word, extremely video-gamey: Characters move stiffly, some have signature moves they repeat, and the laws of physics seem to have been imported from somewhere between The Matrix and Warner Bros. cartoons. We spoke to the film's fight coordinator, Freddy Bouciegues, to find out he choreographed human actors to fight like video game characters--and how that's different from his work on fights in actual video games. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. I assume the two or three major fight sequences in the movie make up the bulk of your efforts, but were you also working on all random stunts going on in the background? Whenever Ryan Reynolds walks down the street, we get a taste of Grand Theft Auto-style mayhem caused by other players of the game-within-the-movie.


Ryan Reynolds Called In a Favor for That Big Free Guy Cameo

WIRED

Free Guy is pop culture in a blender. Largely set in a video game that feels like a cross between Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto, the movie feels both incredibly familiar and brand new. According to Ryan Reynolds, who stars as a non-playable character named Guy, that's by design. "A wholesale, original non-IP, non-comic-book, non-sequel movie is an increasingly rare unicorn these days," Reynolds tells WIRED. "I remember as a kid getting to see Back to the Future for the first time, and I'm not comparing our movie to Back to the Future, but I kind of wanted it to have a bit of that magic. I love being immersed in a world I'm unfamiliar with, and experiencing real wish-fulfillment is something that harkens back to, like, the Amblin days."


Here's What Real Video Game NPCs Think About em Free Guy /em

Slate

In Free Guy, the new film from director Shawn Levy and screenwriters Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, Ryan Reynolds plays an NPC--a non-playable character--from a video game. Over the course of the movie, Reynolds' character becomes conscious, falls in love, and eventually learns how to use lightsabers, Captain America's shield, and a grab-bag of intellectual property controlled or licensed for the movie by the Walt Disney Company. It's not the first time NPCs have been featured on-screen, but no other film has spent as much time exploring their inner lives. To find out how NPCs felt about their moment in the spotlight, I travelled to several video game universes and asked any NPC I could find what they thought about Free Guy. Here's what they told me.

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em Free Guy' /em s Ending Lets Disney Have Its Cake and Eat It, Too

Slate

This post contains spoilers for Free Guy. Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds' new, hammy vehicle in which he plays a self-aware video game character, didn't start its life as a Disney movie. The movie was already in production when the House of Mouse bought Fox, at which point the comedy became yet another member of the Disney family. Despite being a bland Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto Online rip-off, Free City is apparently massively popular around the world: Real-life streamers Ninja and Jacksepticeye make cameos as Free City players, we're told the game has won tons of awards from IGN, and even Good Morning America is covering the its viral moments. As an NPC, Guy is only supposed to be set dressing for the real users. But because of a contrived, nonsensical plot device, he gains access to some hidden code within the game that grants him artificial intelligence.


Ryan Reynolds: Why Free Guy is more than a 'video game movie'

BBC News

Thanks to some extremely advanced artificial intelligence code we won't attempt to explain here, Guy is the only NPC (non-playable character) in Free City who is able to think and feel things for himself. As a result, he starts to become bored with his everyday life.