DALL-E: A Stepping Stone to Artificial General Intelligence
DALL-E is already proving to be a stepping stone in AI research. Its novelty lies in the way it was trained – with both text and vision stimuli – unlocking promising new directions of research in a re-emerging field called multimodal AI.
Final thoughts
In just less than a year since GPT-3’s release, OpenAI is about to release DALL-E as its next state-of-the-art API. This, along with the GPT and CLIP models, gets OpenAI one step closer to its promise of building sustainable and safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). It also creates endless new streams of research surpassing the previous levels of AI performance.
One thing is certain–once released, we can all expect our Twitter feed to be filled with mind-blowing applications, just this time with artificially generated images rather than artificially generated text.
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World-Dominating Superstar Firms Get Bigger, Techier, and More Chinese
The world’s biggest businesses were doing fine until Covid-19 arrived. Now they’re doing even better.
The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product. Three decades ago the equivalent figure was less than 5%.
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2021 Media Map (US)
By Evan Shapiro
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How the Hybrid Concert Experience Happens
“My team was really spread out, with myself and five others in key positions. Given our distances, just screaming and trying to hear the radio wasn’t going to play. We realized right away that we needed to have comms, and so we reached out to TC Furlong in Chicago. The role of intercom during the pandemic certainly allows you that level of distancing you need to maintain. Adding a Clear-Com system just totally took the frustration level out and allowed us to focus in on the job in hand,” he said.
To ensure smooth communication between production team members as well as to maintain appropriate social distancing requirements, the tour employed Clear-Com’s Encore Analog Partyline intercom system.
“Front-of-House, lighting, video, and stage right were located as far from each other as the venue would allow, with the broadcast engineer in a separate room off the main venue. The Encore system provided full-duplex, hands-free communication with optimal audio quality for users separated by greater-than-normal physical distances and challenged by the blaring nature of being at a live show. All production team members were also equipped with RS-501 belt packs and CC-95 single-muff headsets to ensure they did not miss a beat,” said Froula.
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Immersive VR Needs Your Mirror Neurons
Along those lines, the science of mirror neurons is of particular interest to Dolby. Mirror neurons are described as specialized brain circuits or systems that connect different sensory portions of the brain to the “premotor cortex” which helps control the body.
“Mirror neurons are what allow us to step into the shoes of somebody else,” Daly states. “That is a true aspect of immersion. In immersive media, having that experience would allow you to be literally ‘immersed’ in what is happening to another person.”
Qualcomm, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and others are iterating new versions of VR/AR wearables to not only feel more comfortable on the head — but more compatible with how we actually experience the world.
“VR content creators are essentially conducting informal psychological experiments over time with their audiences as subjects, and they get feedback from the success or failure of those attempts, and try again,” says Daly. “All of those questions with VR are yet to be determined.”
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