A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI
... Case in point: According to the same study by AKAS in 2023, “mentions of Altman in articles referencing AI are twice the combined total of 42 women in the recent Top 100 list of AI influencers in Time magazine.” ...
See the full article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2023/12/23/a-call-for-a-systemic-dismantling-these-women-refuse-to-be-hidden-figures-in-the-development-of-ai/?ss=ai&sh=4955e0f128f4
Amazon’s new Echo Frames can’t touch the Ray-Ban Meta
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Unlike the Ray-Bans, however, Amazon’s Echo Frames 3 don’t do video capture (you can practically hear the collective sigh of relief from privacy advocates across the globe). They do, however, offer a similar audio set up. The speakers are located in the temples, just ahead of the temple tips. ...
As their name implies, however, the real centerpiece here is Echo functionality. The Frames are yet another form factor for summoning Alexa. This makes enough sense on the face of it, a hands-free voice assistant you can take anywhere your phone gets a decent connection. You can play/pause, make calls and set reminders, for starters — all things you can do on a pair of earbuds with a connected voice assistant. ...
My feelings about the latest Echo Frames may well have been different had I not recently tested the Ray-Ban Meta. At $270, they’re $30 cheaper than the Meta glasses. If you’re attempting to decide between the two, I would say bite the bullet and spend the extra $30. Of course, it’s also worth factoring in that — as I write this — Amazon is currently offering the new Echo Frames for a deeply discounted $200.
See the full story here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/23/amazons-new-echo-frames-cant-touch-the-ray-ban-meta/
[I Am Nobody] EP01 | College Boy Got Superpower | Peng Yuchang / Hou Minghao / Wang Yinglu | YOUKU
Blended humans and virtual actors? Watch minutes 25-30 in this video. Tencent claims in press releases and news stories that the woman in the scene (and the series!) is a virtual actor.
Behind the Making of My AI Digital Double
... The scan took place at the CAA Vault, a one-story, warehouse-type facility in Los Angeles built by Creative Artists Agency, one of the entertainment industry’s top talent agencies. The Vault gathers several scanning stations—body, face, voice capture—in one place, so visitors can in a single day leave with a replica of themselves that appears on screen as authentic as the genuine article. ...
CAA clients own the digital doubles created in the Vault, giving them, the agency hopes, more license to police replicas made without their permission. ...
CAA and others want Washington’s oversight, envisioning a world in which control of one’s replica joins other inherent rights. “We didn’t have that luxury of waiting for the law to catch up,” said Alexandra Shannon, CAA’s head of strategic development and the architect behind the Vault. ...
CAA Chief Executive Bryan Lourd helped usher in one of the earliest adoptions of this throwback technology when Carrie Fisher, the actress who first portrayed Princess Leia in 1977’s “Star Wars,” died halfway through reprising the role in a new trilogy released between 2015 and 2019. Fisher was the mother of his daughter, Billie Lourd.
The filmmakers approached the Lourds for permission to recreate Fisher digitally in the last movie in the trilogy, titled “The Rise of Skywalker”—and struck a deal to make it happen. “That’s how it should go,” Bryan Lourd said. ...
See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/behind-the-making-of-my-ai-digital-double-0ff22ac8
The video is here: https://m.wsj.net/video/20231221/f0584bec-8adf-4b5c-ba0a-cef42039eb52/2/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8#t=0
