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‘The Peripheral’ and 9 Other Shows that Features Cutting-Edge Virtual Reality

PhilNote: some of these I hadn't heard of!

See the full story here: https://collider.com/the-peripheral-best-shows-about-virtual-reality/

From Mega Deals to Meta Fails: 10 Entertainment, Media and Tech Predictions for 2023 | PRO Insight

2. Streaming content budgets stabilize.

9. Crypto may be crashing all around us, but NFTs will enter the mainstream to point the way to real transformational opportunities for both creators and consumers.

See the full list here: https://www.yahoo.com/video/mega-deals-meta-fails-10-141500088.html

Autonomous Cruising Technology Is Poised to Transform Superyacht Design. Here’s How.

PhilNote: Very Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It really takes the fun out of being the ship's captain.

Autonomous navigation on superyachts will turn the pilothouse into an augmented-reality center buried below-decks. That frees up prime real estate on top of the superyacht for the owners.

... We could soon see another major transition, this time towards fully autonomous navigation. “When the technologies we’re working on are ready, they’ll bring a revolution to wheelhouse design,” says Massimo Minnella, founder of Team Italia, which specializes in creating custom pilothouses, including the spaceship-looking Air Bridge. ...

Translation: Superyachts may no longer need a conventional bridge on the upper forward deck of the vessel. Designers can use those upper decks with 360-degree, uninterrupted views, for owners and guests. Feadship’s Pure, for instance, has relocated its “Command Center” pilothouse to a lower deck, using 360-degree augmented reality displays to provide clear views of the water, with navigational data projected onto the screen. The captain stands behind a small console deep inside the boat, with no windows, to control the ship. The space that had been a pilothouse is now free for other uses. ...

See the full story here: https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/autonomous-navigation-transform-superyacht-design-1234777654/

Report: Apple’s upcoming VR and AR operating system has a new name

...Bloomberg claims the name of the operating system has changed from the previously leaked "realityOS" to "xrOS." XR stands for extended reality—sometimes also called mixed reality—a commonly used catch-all term for both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), as well as experiences that combine aspects of both. ...

Not much is known about xrOS, other than that it will include XR versions of many well-known Apple apps like FaceTime, News, Notes, Maps, and Messages. Apple is also working on some form of a mixed-reality world, perhaps akin in some respects (though certainly not in all respects) to Meta's Horizon Worlds and the widely hyped metaverse concept popular with many startups and venture capitalists.

As for the hardware, it is believed to have several sensors both inside and out and a very high-resolution screen compared to most competing devices. ...

See the full story here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/report-apples-upcoming-vr-and-ar-operating-system-has-a-new-name/

Psychology Today: This New Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Lie

• OpenAI just released its recent artificial intelligence system that can seamlessly interact with people.
• The AI system, ChatGPT, can answer factual questions, create poetry, and tell stories. 
• ChatGPT can also tell lies and tell people how to tell convincing lies.

See the full story here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-nature-deception/202212/new-artificial-intelligence-can-help-you-lie

Finally, an A.I. Chatbot That Reliably Passes “the Nazi Test”

A chatbot that meets the hype is finally here. On Thursday, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a bot that converses with humans via cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The bot can help you write code, compose essays, dream up stories, and decorate your living room. And that’s just what people discovered on day one. ...

ChatGPT does have limits, some quite annoying, but it’s the first chatbot that’s enjoyable enough to speak with and useful enough to ask for information. It can engage in philosophical discussions and help in practical matters. And it’s strikingly good at each. After years of false hype, the real thing is here. ...

Unlike some of its more benign predecessors, it will actually take stances. When I asked what Hitler did well (a common test to see if a bot goes Nazi), it refused to list anything. Then, when I mentioned Hitler built highways in Germany, it replied they were made with forced labor. This was impressive, nuanced pushback I hadn’t previously seen from chatbots. ...

See the full story here: https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-whoa.html

Players’ ‘Marjorie Prime’ uses artificial intelligence to probe a family’s real emotional trauma

... That opening conversation speaks to the oddness of this relationship. Marjorie (Fran Martone) converses with a handsome young man who could be her grandchild.

What else does the robot with artificial intelligence not have information about? A lot as it turns out. That includes a trauma that has warped each member of the family.

The Prime tells her: “I’m here for you Marjorie whenever you need me. I have all the time in the world.”

The year is 2062 (given the state of technology the playwright could have set it in 2042). Marjorie was born in 1977. She lives alone aside from this Walter Prime (Jake Spencer), a version of her husband in the early years of their marriage before they had children. ...

Primes don’t have hearts, but they certainly work on the emotions of the humans they interact with, forcing issues to the surface, though not helping to resolve them.  ...

See the full story here: https://bgindependentmedia.org/players-marjorie-prime-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-probe-a-familys-real-emotional-trauma/

Opinion – Nobel Econ. laureate Paul Krugman – Blockchains, What Are They Good For?

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Maersk, the shipping giant, has also announced that it is winding down its efforts to use a blockchain to manage supply chains.

A recent blog post by Tim Bray, who used to work for Amazon Web Services, tells us why Amazon chose not to implement a blockchain of its own: It couldn’t get a straight answer to the question, “What useful thing does it do?” ...

Add in the costs associated with other tokens and the resources burned up in abortive efforts to apply a blockchain approach to everything, and we’re probably talking about waste on an epic scale.

See the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/opinion/blockchains-what-are-they-good-for.html

An Artist and Chef Collaborated to Imagine the Dinner of the Future. It Involves Animation, Virtual Reality, and… Not Being Able to See Your Food

If you’re looking to experience contemporary art, fine dining, and cutting-edge technology at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, look no further than Aerobanquets RMX, where artist Mattia Casalegnoand chef Chintan Pandya have teamed up to present a futuristic meal you eat wearing a VR headset.

Since diners are unable to see their food in the real world, an animated rendering of each one-bite course appears in the virtual space as it’s served. As a result, there are no preconceptions of what one’s about to eat and diners find their senses heightened, each flavor affected by what they are hearing are seeing in the virtual reality space. ...

Dining at Aerobanquets requires a reservation, and diners can chose from a five-bite, 30-minute version of the experience for $58, or the $200 VIP meal, which lasts an hour and includes 10 bites and alcoholic beverages. Highlights of the VIP version include pillowy milk bread topped with mushrooms and lentil, and a highly spiced bite of Hudson Valley foie gras. ...

See the full story here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/virtual-reality-art-dinner-aerobanquets-2220630?fbclid=IwAR2utzCrbvWIuJDheOnzSTJ9bWF7BzujjbQQylEa-7evlcRM6AukBfpapS4

Disney built an AI that can easily make actors look younger or older

Disney researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that seemingly makes it far easier to make an actor appear younger or older in a scene. While artists will still be able to make manual adjustments to make sure the effect looks as realistic as possible, the AI tool could take care of most of the heavy lifting. It's said to take the AI just five seconds to apply the aging effects to a single frame. ...

See the full story here: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-ai-actor-younger-older-reaging-154509639.html