• A24’s New AI-Generated ‘Civil War’ Ads Generate Controversy

    A24 has released a series of epic new posters touting its acclaimed film

  • AI-generated model: AI-generated fashion models could bring more diversity to the industry

    London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the real-life Alexsandrah in a photo shoot. Alexsandrah, who goes by her first name professionally, in turn receives credit and compensation whenever the AI version of herself gets used - just like a human model. Alexsandrah says she and her alter-ego mirror...

  • A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety

    A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism. This reckless alarmism, saturated across the mainstream media and endlessly amplified by it,...

  • Adobe's working on generative video, too

    Adobe says it’s building an AI model to generate video. But it’s not revealing when this model will launch, exactly — or much about it besides the fact that it exists. Offered as an answer of sorts to OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Imagen 2 and models from the growing number of startups in the nascent generative […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Explainer: What is generative AI, and what does it have to do with books?

    Millicent Weber, Julienne van Loon and Bronwyn Coate write: The term

  • Open-sourcing generative AI

    The views expressed in this video are those of the speakers, and do not represent any endorsement or sponsorship. Is the open-source approach, which has democratized access to software, ensured transparency, and improved security for decades, now poised to have a similar impact on AI? We dissect the balance between collaboration and control, legal ramifications,

  • Closing the generation gap with dance

    Sadler’s Wells Company of Elders teams with the ground-breaking storytellers of ZooNation Youth Company.

  • How to Use Google Gemini for Code Generation

    Google Gemini represents a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence, standing as an advanced large language model (LLM) that has positioned itself at the cutting edge of AI technology. With its impressive array of capabilities, Gemini has garnered considerable interest among developers, who find in it a valuable ally for streamlining their coding […]

  • Snapchat to Watermark AI-Generated Images

    In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images. [Read More]

  • BICS translates SMS from the older generations

    Communications platform company BICS warned 2G and 3G network sunsets could widen a global digital divide by denying users access to services when travelling, noting a lack of availability would inevitably hit operators in the pocket.

  • The business of generating and selling low-quality ebooks

    Online marketplaces are stocked to the brim with low-quality e-books generated by LLMs or cruder generative methods. It's nothing new—hucksters have been slapping together garbage ebooks by plagiarizing wikipedia and whatnot since the dawn of the format. But now it happens in incredible, overwhelming volume. — Read the rest

  • Whoopi Goldberg: Republicans Are Afraid — They 'Are the Snowflakes'

    Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC's "The View" that Republicans are afraid of information and history, so they are "snowflakes." | Clips