... Among the examples of generative AI use in nonfiction archival work, the group cites the generation of fake newspaper articles and headlines and of re-creations and nonexistent historical artifacts without identification. Additionally, AI-generated “historical” images that are meant to depict real people and events, “rather than sourcing real ones where available” are being used “in order to save time and money,” the open letter notes. ...
The Alliance’s open letter concludes: “We feel that it is imperative that the documentary community lead by example in setting a precedent of transparency and best practices.” ...
In an effort to fight deepfakes and other types of manipulated and generated images, Sony, in partnership with the Associated Press (AP), has unveiled in-camera authentication technology. The technology, which will be available in Sony’s existing camera models like the a1 and a7S III and the upcoming a9 III, creates a digital signature at the moment of capture, ensuring that each image can be verified for authenticity. ...
If you’re interested in learning more about the industry’s approach to this issue, explore the initiatives of The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). It was established to combat misinformation by developing technical standards that certify the source and provenance of media.
The author emphasised that AI is unique among all the new technologies developed by humans as it can make decisions, create new ideas, and learn on its own. While pointing out that the finance sector is the most suited for AI as it is data-driven, the author also said that it could be a serious source of the AI-made crisis.
He highlighted the possibility of AI gaining control over the world’s financial systems and creating complex financial tools that humans may be incapable of understanding or regulating. Harari drew parallels between the financial crisis of 2007-07 which was an outcome of the issues created by complex debt instruments such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) which were poorly understood and regulated. ...
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... Math is a benchmark for reasoning, Li says. A machine that is able to reason about mathematics, could, in theory, be able to learn to do other tasks that build on existing information, such as writing computer code or drawing conclusions from a news article. Math is a particularly hard challenge because it requires AI models to have the capacity to reason and to really understand what they are dealing with.
A generative AI system that could reliably do math would need to have a really firm grasp on concrete definitions of particular concepts that can get very abstract. A lot of math problems also require some level of planning over multiple steps, says Katie Collins, a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, who specializes in math and AI....
Kodak showed off a brand new Super 8 film video camera at CES in 2016 that blended the iconic film format with some digital quality-of-life features, like digital monitoring of what you’re shooting. The world then heard basically nothing about the camera for many years, and it was assumed to be vaporware. Tuesday night, Kodak suddenly started taking reservations for the camera. It has an MSRP of $5,495 (!) and its battery charges with MicroUSB (!). ...
... OpenAI’s dilemma: Commentators have noted the company’s unusual, conflicted, structure. A nonprofit board with a mission to benefit humanity oversees a for-profit arm backed by Microsoft and venture capital firms including Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures. ...
The entire enterprise’s goal is to build an artificial general intelligence, highly autonomous systems that “outperform humans at most economically valuable work” but “benefits all of humanity.” OpenAI’s commercial arm was created to support that enormously expensive goal, but it is hemmed in by limits on profits that flow to investors, as well as no governance rights for investors. That’s why Microsoft, Thrive and others have little direct leverage on how the company is run. ...
That’s not the only unusual corporate structure in the A.I. industry.Anthropic, begun by a dozen ex-OpenAI employees concerned about their former employer’s race for profits, is set up as a B Corp, or public benefit corporation, that is meant to balance the interests of a wide array of stakeholders.
It also has a so-called long-term benefit trust that includes A.I. ethicists and other experts and is allowed to choose a majority of the company’s directors. ...
Meow Wolf debuts in virtual reality Dec. 7 in Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf.
The Austin, Texas-based Mighty Coconut has created 23 VR Walkabout Mini Golf games since fall 2020, but this is only its third collaboration with an outside entity. Meow Wolf was the first to be "hands-on partners" with the creation of the game, said David Wyatt, head of communications at Mighty Coconut. ...
Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf will be available for download as an add-on to the Mighty Coconut base station for $3.99. The base station costs $14.99 and is available at mightycoconut.com/minigolf and can be downloaded to Meta Quest 2, PlayStation VR2, Steam and PICO platforms. ...
“Lenovo came to me with the idea, and as someone who came from a startup with our management company Flava Unit, we know how challenging it can be to keep the doors open and the lights on,” says the star of launching her music management company with partner Rakim back in the late '80s and early '90s. ...
This month businesses in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Raleigh, Toronto or Los Angeles are able to apply for a chance to have the Emmy and Grammy-award winner as their superstar digital spokesperson. ...
While the star reiterates that she “always has her concerns” when it comes to AI and the digital replication of her likeness, “I don’t think this is a bell we can unring. So I want to use it in a positive way, which is to help people and help people succeed.” ...
... In 2017, Brewster was working at Google, and he was among the many local activists who tried and failed to persuade lawmakers to remove the towering statue of Christopher Columbus on Fifty-ninth Street. “We were, like, ‘All right, we lost that one,’ ” Brewster recalled. “So we started creating monuments.” Each was fashioned not from bronze or marble but from bits and bytes in the cloud, visible only on screens using augmented reality. ...
This week, without permission from the city’s bureaucrats, Kinfolk is placing four new statues around town. The installations were created in collaboration with the Black artists Hank Willis Thomas, Pamela Council, Derrick Adams, and Tourmaline. Thomas’s piece is a three-hundred-foot Afro pick in the East River, looming over the Brooklyn Bridge. ...
The artist closed the app, eyes welling. “I remember a time when this history was so buried that it wasn’t accessible,” she said. Later, a maintenance man took a smoke break, oblivious of the fact that he was standing precisely in the spot where Mary Jones stood.
