Following the launch of Google’s ARCore Geospatial API, the band is now making a special appearance with augmented reality to perform their new single “Skinny Ape” in New York’s Times Square.
AR app brings Gorillaz to New York and London
The performance can be followed in the “Gorillaz Presents” app for iOS or Android. The digital characters and effects of the concert will be integrated into the real city backdrop.
An AR performance will follow at London’s Picadilly Circus on Sunday, December 18, 2022. It starts at 2 p.m. local time. You can also watch this show again in the app after the live performance.
Gorillaz was created as a sarcastic commentary on the interchangeability of the music landscape at the turn of the millennium. Blur singer Damon Alban and comic artist Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl) put together a virtual band whose characters served as many musician clichés as possible.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been at the heart of the San Francisco–based firm since cofounding it with Elon Musk and others in 2015. ...
3/ What DALL-E means for society
... But, look, it’s important to be transparent. This is going to impact the job market for illustrators. The amount one illustrator is able to do will go up by, like, a factor of 10 or 100. How that impacts the job market is very hard to say. We honestly don’t know. I can see it getting bigger just as easily as I can see it getting smaller. There will, of course, be new jobs with these tools. But there will also be a transition.
At the same time, there’s huge societal benefit, where everybody gets this new superpower. I’ve used DALL-E 2 for a lot of things. I’ve made art that I have up in my house. I did a remodel of my house, too, and I used it quite successfully for architectural ideas. ...
... Computers are already used in several industries to generate vast numbers of possible designs that are then sifted for ones that might work. Text-to-Xmodels would allow a human designer to fine-tune that generative process from the start, using words to guide computers through an infinite number of options toward results that are not just possible but desirable.
Computers can conjure spaces filled with infinite possibility. Text-to-X will let us explore those spaces using words.
“I think that’s the legacy,” says Altman. “Images, video, audio—eventually, everything will be generated. I think it is just going to seep everywhere.”
Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...
Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...
(g) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED. In this section, the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ includes the following: 1) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets. 2) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action. 3) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks. 4) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task. 5) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.
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The definition has all kinds of vagaries and confounding elements. ...
For the first time, Creative Acts introduced the Virtual Reality Reentry Program at California State Prison, Corcoran.
Incarcerated participants were able to have experiences that would otherwise be impossible.
To help prepare them for reentry into the community, the program allows participants to engage in acts that others take for granted like pumping gas and purchasing groceries. ...
Blockchain, the technology underpinning bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, for years has been viewed by some companies as a way to drive industry-transforming projects, among them the tracking of assets through complex supply chains.
So far, that hasn’t happened.
The latest effort to run aground was that of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and International Business Machines Corp., which hoped to follow shipments via the blockchain. Last month, Maersk said the project would be discontinued. Another big effort, Walmart Inc.’s attempt to track groceries on the blockchain, continues, but slowly. ...
Others have tried with mixed results.
In 2018, Walmart partnered with IBM to start tracking its produce items through blockchain. The effort began with leafy greens, and in the four years since has added just one more item: green bell peppers.
Walmart said it took time to get buy-in from suppliers who found the onboarding process daunting. Many didn’t have digital record-keeping systems and had to make large upfront investments before they could start using blockchain, Walmart said. ...
PhilNote: China and US are attacking deep fakes from opposite directions; China will ONLY allow synthetic audio and visual creations that utilize an official, detectable watermark and prosecute sources that don't comply. US wants to use watermark detection to stop unauthorized use of audio and likenesses for hate speech, porn, and fake quotes and attributions.
'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values
China's Cyberspace Administration has issued guidelines on how to do deepfakes the right way. ...
Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create realistic depictions – usually videos – of humans saying and/or doing things they didn't say and/or do. They're controversial outside China for their potential to mislead audiences and create trouble for the people depicted.
Beijing clearly also has worries about the technique as the Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has issued regulations that prohibit their creation without the subject's permission, or to depict or utter anything that could be considered as counter to the national interest. Anything counter to socialist values falls under that description, as does any form of "Illegal and harmful information" or using AI-generated humans in an attempt to deceive or slander.
But the rules also suggest China expects synthetic humans will be widely used. For instance, they allow use of deepfakes in applications such as chatbots. In such scenarios, deepfakes must be flagged as digital creations.
The document also envisages that deepfakes will be used by online publishers, which must take into account China's myriad other rules about acceptable online content. ...
Blippar, the leading technology and content platform specializing in augmented reality (AR), announced the expansion of Blippbuilder, its no-code AR creation platform, which now enables creators to build augmented reality experiences for AR headsets, starting with Magic Leap 2 and beta testing Meta Quest Pro.
Forging new frontiers, Blippar’s 200,000+ creators are able to create interactive AR experiences that can now also be experienced on mixed-reality headwear devices. Blippar has initially chosen to enable consumption across Magic Leap and Meta headsets to ensure that the broadest possible spectrum of consumers can engage with experiences developed using its expansive AR creation platform - from enterprise customers and professionals, to students, gamers and those with AR headsets for daily use. ...
... on Monday, December 5th, its AI Research Group, a team of fifteen of the world’s leading Computational Neuroscientists and AI Ph.D.’s, in association with Universities across Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, and the USA, published a landmark research “white” paper describing their novel approach to the design and development of the next generation of AI known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) intelligent agents with human-level intelligence that can learn, adapt and act in the world. The paper, entitled “Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence from First Principles,” presents a vision and roadmap for AI based on a field of research called Active Inference. KOSM, the network operating system from VERSES, uses the Active Inference framework as the foundation for its AI decision-making and planning capabilities. ...
