A.I. is here, and it’s making movies. Is Hollywood ready?
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And this technology could open the door to films being changed long after they come out, said Denver D’Rozario, a Howard University marketing professor who has studied the software resurrection of dead actors.
“Let’s say … in a movie a guy’s drinking a can of Pepsi, and 20 years from now you get a sponsorship from Coke,” said D’Rozario. “Do you change the can of Pepsi to Coke?” “At what point can things be changed? At what point can things be bought?”
Mann said the advantages of his technology are many, from breaking down language barriers and fomenting cross-border empathy to sparing actors the headache of reshoots. In his view, scenarios like D’Rozario’s hypothetical Coke sponsorship represent new revenue streams. ...
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-12-19/the-next-frontier-in-moviemaking-ai-edits
AI Timelines: What Do Experts in Artificial Intelligence Expect for the Future?
... The chart shows the answers of 352 experts. This is from the most recent study by Katja Grace and her colleagues, conducted in the summer of 2022.
Experts were asked when they believe there is a 50% chance that human-level AI exists.3Human-level AI was defined as unaided machines being able to accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers. More information about the study can be found in the fold-out box at the end of the text on this page.4 ...
As highlighted in the annotations, half of the experts gave a date before 2061, and 90% gave a date within the next 100 years. ...
Expert surveys are one piece of information to consider when we think about the future of AI, but we should not overstate the results of these surveys. Experts in a particular technology are not necessarily experts in making predictions about the future of that technology. ...
See the full story here: https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/18/ai-timelines-what-do-experts-in-artificial-intelligence-expect-for-the-future/
Talking About Large Language Models
See the full story here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.03551.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0Nf_qi97sIpTDDiaEKi4-knaPOfbmVAKvnRihzAoOY9EEG30lK2dbSqQ4
Gorillaz demo Google’s latest AR technology in a virtual concert
Following the launch of Google’s ARCore Geospatial API, the band is now making a special appearance with augmented reality to perform their new single “Skinny Ape” in New York’s Times Square.
AR app brings Gorillaz to New York and London
The performance can be followed in the “Gorillaz Presents” app for iOS or Android. The digital characters and effects of the concert will be integrated into the real city backdrop.
An AR performance will follow at London’s Picadilly Circus on Sunday, December 18, 2022. It starts at 2 p.m. local time. You can also watch this show again in the app after the live performance.
Gorillaz was created as a sarcastic commentary on the interchangeability of the music landscape at the turn of the millennium. Blur singer Damon Alban and comic artist Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl) put together a virtual band whose characters served as many musician clichés as possible.
See the full story here: https://mixed-news.com/en/gorillaz-demo-googles-latest-ar-technology-in-a-virtual-concert/
Sam Altman: This is what I learned from DALL-E 2
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been at the heart of the San Francisco–based firm since cofounding it with Elon Musk and others in 2015. ...
3/ What DALL-E means for society
... But, look, it’s important to be transparent. This is going to impact the job market for illustrators. The amount one illustrator is able to do will go up by, like, a factor of 10 or 100. How that impacts the job market is very hard to say. We honestly don’t know. I can see it getting bigger just as easily as I can see it getting smaller. There will, of course, be new jobs with these tools. But there will also be a transition.
At the same time, there’s huge societal benefit, where everybody gets this new superpower. I’ve used DALL-E 2 for a lot of things. I’ve made art that I have up in my house. I did a remodel of my house, too, and I used it quite successfully for architectural ideas. ...
See the full story here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/16/1065255/sam-altman-openai-lessons-from-dall-e-2/
Generative AI is changing everything. But what’s left when the hype is gone?
... Computers are already used in several industries to generate vast numbers of possible designs that are then sifted for ones that might work. Text-to-Xmodels would allow a human designer to fine-tune that generative process from the start, using words to guide computers through an infinite number of options toward results that are not just possible but desirable.
Computers can conjure spaces filled with infinite possibility. Text-to-X will let us explore those spaces using words.
“I think that’s the legacy,” says Altman. “Images, video, audio—eventually, everything will be generated. I think it is just going to seep everywhere.”
See the full story here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/16/1065005/generative-ai-revolution-art/
Virtual reality helps reentry efforts at Corcoran
For the first time, Creative Acts introduced the Virtual Reality Reentry Program at California State Prison, Corcoran.
Incarcerated participants were able to have experiences that would otherwise be impossible.
To help prepare them for reentry into the community, the program allows participants to engage in acts that others take for granted like pumping gas and purchasing groceries. ...
See the full story here: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/12/15/virtual-reality-helps-reentry-efforts-at-corcoran/
