You Are Here – by Evan Shapiro – Media War & Peace
... The last Media era ended in 2019 when Disney+ launched. That coincided with Covid. So, the actual onset of the new, current era was obscured by Media’s explosive and irrational growth during lockdown. At the end of the last era, the moguls all went all-in on business models they knew nothing about. As Hollywood distractedly chased Netflix and Spotify down their rabbit holes, big tech captured even more share of the world’s hearts, minds and pockets. Now, last era’s moguls are trying to cut their way to success, like its 2008. ...
Media platforms designed for this new User-Centric era already merge content and technology into hyper-personalized lifestyle bundles. Media businesses made for this moment, already operate on Multi-faceted Models, across the hierarchy of consumer feeds. ...
See the full story here: https://eshap.substack.com/p/you-are-here?r=5xhla&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Exclusive survey: Experts favor new U.S. agency to govern AI
See the complete story here: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/ai-regulations-expert-survey
The Fate of Apple’s Vision Pro: Part 1 and 2
PhilNote: This is a very good combination of observation and speculation about the Apple Vision Pro and Spatial Computing.
Part 1
https://www.mediumenergy.io/p/why-apples-vision-pro-matters-part
Part 2
... Unlike other players in this space, most people will give Apple the benefit of the doubt.
More so than perhaps any other company, Apple knows how to make things desirable. Which is a key pillar of their strategy: social engineering. They’re going to make this thing cool and they have a plan to do so. One example is hyper personalization.
Apple is going to ensure your AVP fits like a glove, while also offering the opportunity for self-expression and style via custom aesthetics....
But if 'isolation' is your concern, know that collaboration will be the killer feature of spatial computing’s killer apps. ...
Across all of these examples, people are fundamentally trying to transfer knowledge by conveying an 'experience' in a woefully non-experiential way. This ‘knowledge transfer’ problem becomes increasingly acute in the face of an aging workforce, worker displacement (as AI eats more jobs), and within an era of customization/personalization in product design & sales.
This is why I prefer to call spatial computing, 'experiential computing'....
Apple buys Swedish classical record label
- BIS Records founder Robert von Bahr said Tuesday that Apple has bought the classical music-focused record company and will fold it into its Apple Music Classical and Platoon music services.
- The acquisition is another example of Apple attempting to distinguish itself from streaming music rivals like Spotify by focusing on classical music.
- The tech giant debuted the Apple Music Classical streaming app this past spring, pitching it as a way for subscribers to access over 5 million classical tracks that can be searched via data like composer, conductor or catalog number.
See the full story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/apple-buys-swedish-classical-record-label.html
Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays.
Rick Clark, the executive director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his staff spent weeks this summer pretending to be high school students using A.I. chatbots to fill out college applications....
“Students on some level are going to have access to and use A.I.,” Mr. Clark said. “The big question is: How do we want to direct them, knowing that it’s out there and available to them?” ...
“Part of the process of the college essay is finding your writing voice through all of that drafting and revising,” said Susan Barber, an Advanced Placement English literature teacher at Midtown High School, a public school in Atlanta. “And I think that’s something that ChatGPT would be robbing them of.”
In August, Ms. Barber assigned her 12th-grade students to write college essays. This week, she held class discussions about ChatGPT, cautioning students that using A.I. chatbots to generate ideas or writing could make their college essays sound too generic. She advised them to focus more on their personal views and voices.
Other educators said they hoped the A.I. tools might have a democratizing effect. Wealthier high school students, these experts noted, often have access to resources — alumni parents, family friends, paid writing coaches — to help them brainstorm, draft and edit their college admissions essays. ChatGPT could play a similar role for students who lack such resources, they said, especially those at large high schools where overworked college counselors have little time for individualized essay coaching. ...
Several high school seniors said in interviews that they had chosen not to use A.I. tools to help draft their essays — partly because they wanted to tell their own personal stories themselves, and partly because many universities have not taken clear stances on applicants’ use of the chatbots. ...
Ritika Vakharia, a senior at the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, said she had tried asking ChatGPT to produce ideas for college admissions essays. But she found the responses too broad and impersonal, even after she gave it details about her extracurricular activities like teaching dance classes to younger students. ...
See the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/business/college-admissions-essay-ai-chatbots.html
Expo City Dubai to host first Artificial Intelligence Film Festival in the region
... The hybrid AIFF, hosted by Expo City Dubai with a dedicated website to enable virtual visitors to explore the festival remotely, will be the region's premier event to celebrate and propel the convergence of cinema and AI, underlining the symbiotic relationship between human creativity and technology. ...
AIFF will span almost six months of dynamic experiences, including a global competition, innovative film screenings, engaging panel discussions featuring renowned AI experts and filmmakers, and hands-on workshops offering insights into AI integration in film production – all showcasing how AI can be used to enhance the filmmaking process.
The competition opens on Tuesday, with professional and amateur film creators worldwide invited to submit a short film that includes AI-generated content. The winning entries will be showcased at an awards ceremony on 29th February 2024. ...
See the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/expo-city-dubai-to-host-first-artificial-intelligence-film-festival-in-the-region-1.1693899814016
Everything you wanted to know about AI Security but were afraid to ask
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The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) by NIST
When engaging with AI and AI-based solutions, it's important to understand AI's limitations, risks and vulnerabilities. The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) by NIST is a set of guidelines and best practices designed to help organizations identify, assess and manage the risks associated with the deployment and use of artificial intelligence technologies.
The framework consists of six elements:
- Valid and Reliable - AI can provide the wrong information, which is also known in GenAI as "hallucinations". It's important that companies can validate the AI they're adopting is accurate and reliable.
- Safe - Ensuring that the prompted information isn't shared with other users, like in the infamous Samsung case.
- Secure and Resilient - Attackers are using AI for cyber attacks. Organizations should ensure the AI system is protected and safe from attacks and can successfully thwart attempts to exploit it or use it for assisting with attacks.
- Accountable and Transparent - It's important to be able to explain the AI supply chain and to ensure there is an open conversation about how it works. AI is not magic.
- Privacy-enhanced - Ensuring the prompted information is protected and anonymized in the data lake and when used.
- Fair - This is one of the most important elements. It means managing harmful bias. For example, there is often bias in AI facial recognition, with light-skinned males being more accurately identified compared to women and darker skin colors. When using AI for law enforcement, for example, this could have severe implications.
Additional resources for managing AI risk include the MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems), OWASP Top 10 for ML and Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF).
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See the full article here: https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-ai.html
How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year
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Teachers should look to their students for guidance.
The students in general are way ahead of the faculty. They’ve grown up in a world where new technologies are coming and going, and they’re trying things out. And of course, ChatGPT is the latest thing, so they’re using it. They want to use it responsibly. They’re asking “What’s allowed? Look at all these things I could do. Am I allowed to do that?”
So the advice that I gave to faculty was that you need to be trying this out. You need to at least be conversant in what your students are able to do, and think about your assignments and what this tool enables. What policies or what guidance are you gonna give students in terms of whether they are allowed to use it? In what way would you be allowed to use it?
You don’t have to do this by yourself. You can have a conversation with your students. You can co-create something, because why not draw on the experience in your classroom?
I really think that if you’re teaching, you need to realize that the world has AI now. And so students need to be prepared for a world where this is going to be integrated in industries in different ways. We do need to prepare them.
Venice Immersive First Impressions & Voices of VR podcast updates
My top 17 personal favorites from Venice Immersive 2023:
LETTERS FROM DRANCY: For excellence in mixing showing and telling aspects of spatial storytelling. I was moved the most by this piece. Lots of interesting mixtures of styles and forms ground in 360 video, but adding in layers of projection mapping techniques, animation all to have a great balance between showing and telling this story that really sticks the landing in the end.
EMPEREUR (EMPEROR)
A very high-level of technical polish in terms of spatial storytelling, solid story, and the best embodied interactions that are directly tied into advancing the narrative
FLOATING WITH SPIRITS
Very rich elaboration of Indigenous philosophy through the four elements using point cloud abstractions, and also really touching anthropological capture of Day of the Dead death rituals and connections to ancestors. ...
See the full story here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/venice-immersive-88529050
X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History
... X said the biometrics are for premium users and will give them the option to provide their government ID and a picture, to add a verification layer. Biometric data may be extracted from both for matching purposes. “This will additionally help us tie, for those that choose, an account to a real person by processing their government issued ID,” X said in a statement. “This will also help X fight impersonation attempts and make the platform more secure.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/x-plans-to-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history?srnd=technology-vp&sref=E9Urfma4&mc_cid=d91080b803&mc_eid=cf24d7da5b
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