philip lelyveld The world of entertainment technology

Tencent chief says gaming business under threat, catching up in AI

PONY Ma, chief executive and co-founder of Tencent Holdings, has said that the company’s video games business faces great challenges from competitors but is catching up in artificial intelligence (AI) development.

Ma, speaking at Tencent’s annual meeting in a stadium in Shenzhen on Monday (Jan 29), said that the company has been resting on its laurels in gaming while competitors have delivered new hits. Video games account for more than 30 per cent of Tencent’s revenue.

Chinese media outlet Jiemian published parts of Ma’s speech online. A source with direct knowledge of the matter, who declined to be named because they are not permitted to speak to the media, confirmed the contents. ...

“WeChat is our most robust platform regarding daily user amount and its ecosystem. But it is 12 years of age… Now how we can find new sprouts from the old tree that is WeChat is the big question for us,” Ma said.

See the full story here; https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/tencent-chief-says-gaming-business-under-threat-catching-ai?utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2OcujlkviP-Hr3r4XDZuVAmt7lPE7qkkty7tdAG7SufBi5jU4P_K8oqPM

What is autonomous AI?

What is autonomous AI?

Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of AI in which systems and tools are advanced enough to act with limited human oversight and involvement. The actions an autonomous AI system can perform range from automating basic, repetitive tasks to analyzing data sets. Autonomous AI takes artificial intelligence systems a step closer to AI as it's often depicted in works of fiction.

Through various components working together, an autonomous AI system brings advanced capabilities to businesses and other organizations. Some of these components, such as algorithms, are used to perform tasks like data analysis, while others, such as sensors, are strategically placed to collect the data needed for analysis.

See the full story here: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/autonomous-artificial-intelligence-autonomous-AI

Storytech CES 2024 ‘5 trends’ report

Health Intelligence

Autonomous Intelligence

Immersive Intelligence

As-A-Service Intelligence

Creative Intelligence

See the full report here: https://story-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CES2024-StoryTechFloorTour-Trends.pdf

New Reality Labs Research Project Demonstrates Mind-bending AR Capabilities

PhilNote: It creates a digital twin, hides the physical object from view, and then manipulates the digital twin.  It allows you to see the physical object just before you interact with it.   It is a mystery how this would be used.

... Researchers at Meta Reality Labs Research and University of Duisburg-Essen devised a method for making real objects virtual so they can be interacted with in real-time. By not only digitizing the objects, but also seamlessly erasing their real counterparts, the method creates a mind-bending blend between the real and virtual worlds. The video below with examples explains it better than I possibly could with text alone: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwLu82QLCw&t=281s

The researchers—Mohamed Kari, Reinhard Schütte, and Raj Sodhi—call this concept ‘Scene Responsiveness‘ and published their work late last year at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ...

See the full story here: https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-reality-lab-ar-research-scene-responsiveness/

MIT higher speed recycled Aluminum 3D printer video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93W-CiOT4A

AI is destabilizing ‘the concept of truth itself’ in 2024 election

... “As long as the incentives continue to be engagement-driven sensationalism, and really conflict,” he said, “those are the kinds of content — whether deepfake or not — that’s going to be surfaced.”

See the full story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/22/ai-deepfake-elections-politicians/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjCO1JQKMLfRdDDRnu8B&utm_content=rundown

Yotta, Immerso AI Collaborate To Boost Generative Media In Movie Production, Gaming

Data centre firm Yotta has announced that it entered into a partnership with Immerso AI, a generative artificial intelligence company which is part of the Eros Investments Group. Immerso AI will leverage the Omniverse platform by Nvidia and high-fidelity custom development to create movie characters from the Eros Now library. It will also help in creating avatars and characters for gaming and other uses.

“2024 is going to be the year of generative media, unlike other digital business infrastructure and performance will play a key role in generative media and gaming. Our core vision to develop India’s largest AIIP company is augmented with this partnership,” said Immerso AI CEO Ali Hussein.

See the full story here: https://www.ndtvprofit.com/technology/yotta-immerso-ai-collaborate-to-boost-generative-media-in-movie-production-gaming

Summarize.tech: AI YouTube Video Summaries

In this issue of his regular posts Phil Ranta explains how Summarize.tech works. It reduces a long video essay down to a summary. See the full review here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/summarizetech-ai-youtube-video-summaries-phil-ranta-owfvc/

Sundance Bound ‘Eternal You,’ Exec Produced by Oscar Winner Davis Guggenheim, Explores AI as Comfort for the Living in First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

... “Moritz and I discovered a void that hundreds of millions people feel,” says Block. “They can no longer believe in the promise of life after death with God, the religious rites of mourning have become meaningless to them. Tech companies are trying to fill this void with a new promise of salvation: the idea that we humans no longer need to mourn because we can keep the dead alive virtually.” ...

See the full story with video here: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/eternal-you-ai-avatars-sundance-1235874365/?fbclid=IwAR09wPZfef5VO65-1thdmp0DkG9s39viw73F6G-JSR1thAnC142Jq1R-waI

Buoy meets satellite: Kristen Stewart brings bizarre AI romance to Sundance

"Love Me," surely the most surreal and original entry at this year's Sundance film festival, stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yuen as an AI-powered buoy and orbiting satellite who strike up a romance after humanity has wiped itself off the Earth. ...

Building up their personalities from scratch, they scour the internet for information about the departed human civilization, mimicking the often cringeworthy and absurd human behavior they find on influencers' social media accounts.

"For us, it's not really a movie about AI. But it's a movie about us, seen through the lens of AI," said co-director Andy Zuchero, at the movie's world premiere in Utah on Friday. ...

See the full story here: https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/buoy-meets-satellite-kristen-stewart-brings-bizarre-ai-romance-to-sundance-681809