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Timothée Chalamet is newest actor to break box-office record set by John Travolta nearly 50 years ago

FOX News

Chalamet tells Fox News Digital that Zendaya helped film rehearsals in Hungary. Timothée Chalamet's newest movies have helped him reach record-breaking status. In the late '70s, John Travolta had two top-grossing films come out within eight months of each other. "Saturday Night Fever" came out in December 1977 and "Greece" came out in June 1978. The 28-year-old Chalamet, who was in the recently released movies "Wonka" and "Dune: Part 2," became the first actor since Travolta to lead the top-two domestic grossing films over a time span of eight months, according to Indiewire.


NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding

Zhao, Runcong, Zhang, Wenjia, Li, Jiazheng, Zhu, Lixing, Li, Yanran, He, Yulan, Gui, Lin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives such as novels in an immersive environment. We leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate human-like responses, guided by personality traits extracted from narratives. The system incorporates auto-generated visual display of narrative settings, character portraits, and character speech, greatly enhancing user experience. Our approach eschews predefined sandboxes, focusing instead on main storyline events extracted from narratives from the perspective of a user-selected character. NarrativePlay has been evaluated on two types of narratives, detective and adventure stories, where users can either explore the world or improve their favorability with the narrative characters through conversations.


Large scale Deep learning systems in 2022

#artificialintelligence

Since AlphaGo vs Lee Se-dol, the modern version of John Henry's fatal race against a steam hammer, has captivated the world, as has the generalized fear of an AI apocalypse, it seems like an excellent time to gloss Jeff's talk. And if you think AlphaGo is good now, just wait until it reaches beta. Jeff is referring, of course, to Google's infamous motto: organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. All the stuff early Google mastered. With that mission accomplished Google has moved on to the next challenge.


Did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory predict the arrival of AI?

#artificialintelligence

Now that the world is gradually slipping under the wings of AI, it can be asserted that the sci-fi movies were not wrong. There are abundance of literature on examining the best sci-fi movies ever made and speculating their conversion into reality in times to come. However, though not a sci-fi movie in its truest sense, this genre of children literature provides a vision on artificial intelligence under the garb of a fairy-tale. It would not be wrong to say that this movie is the love child of fairy tale and technology which is typically Tim Burtonesque. The initial scene in the movie was a tragic one which showed how the boy's father lost his job because machines have replaced the human workforce to screw toothpaste caps. While this scene was a gentle reminder of the fact that machines, robots and humanoids will soon be substituting humans.


Gene Wilder, star of comedies 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Young Frankenstein,' dies

PBS NewsHour

For anyone who's heard the "Oompa Loompa" song or Frankenstein pronounced as "Fronkensteen," news of actor Gene Wilder's death on Monday cuts deeply. Wilder died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at age 83, according to his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Wilder passed away in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, late Sunday, reported the Associated Press. He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that originates in the lymphatic system, in 1989. Wilder was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee and began studying acting at age 12.


Gene Wilder Movies: How To Watch 'Willy Wonka,' 'Blazing Saddles' And Other Videos Online After Actor's Death

International Business Times

Gene Wilder, perhaps most well-known among millennials for his role as Willy Wonka, died Sunday in Connecticut after battling Alzheimer's disease, the Associated Press reported. News of his death Monday instantly triggered an outpouring of sympathy from celebrities like Russell Crowe and Gilbert Gottfried. Wilder's longtime collaborator Mel Brooks tweeted that he was "one of the truly great talents of our time," adding that "he blessed every film we did with his magic" and "blessed me with his friendship." Many film fans would argue Wilder blessed them with his performances, and thousands will almost certainly choose to honor Wilder by watching some of his most famous movies. Here's how you can join in: "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" is not available to stream on Netflix, but you can rent it on Amazon Video for 3.99 here.