Introduction: Text-to-Game creation. Can begin with a photo, sketch or idea.
Human or fake? How AI is distorting beauty standards
As this technology continues to develop, challenges to our perception of what is real are immense, and our trust in what we are seeing is eroded. These fake people are already changing industries such as modelling and marketing, but can they offer a more diverse reflection of humanity than has historically been available – or are they destined to reflect the narrow standards of beauty these industries have long been drawn to?
Blockchain Technology—Decentralization | Blocks | Cryptography | Consensus Mechanisms | Immutability
Blockchain technology is a decentralized ledger system that records transactions across a network of computers in a way that is secure, transparent, and tamper-resistant.
– Decentralization
– Blocks
– Cryptography
– Consensus Mechanisms
– Immutability
Stable Diffusion 3 – Creative AI For Everyone!
Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.
The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
Artificial Intelligence played Wargames. The result isn’t reassuring.
A group of researchers had artificial intelligence play wargames, and that gives us a good idea for how we could all die. They tested five different large language models and asked them to make decisions in war situations. They told the AIs that this is a real-world situation and not a simulation! Nevertheless, for all models they found a risk that a nuclear war would develop without provocation out of an initially neutral situation. Some AIs are more war-loving than others though.
Levine: AI Revolution Looks to be Real
Alicia Levine, BNY Mellon Head of Investment Strategy weighs geopolitical and policy risks that coincide with an AI-powered rally in markets.
OpenAI’s Sora: How to Spot AI-Generated Videos | WSJ
OpenAI just revealed Sora – an AI video generator that creates hyper-realistic scenes and animated worlds in moments. But the tech isn’t perfect. There are also concerns over misinformation, with OpenAI saying it’s taking actions to get ready for the 2024 presidential election, including prohibiting the use of its tools for political campaigning. WSJ dives into how to spot an AI video, and the ways this text-to-video tool could shape the future of content creation.
Bad News for Quantum Computing: Another Advantage Gone
Sometimes people ask me why I’m now doing science news. It’s so that you can fully appreciate the drama of scientific discovery, in which one result contradicts a previous one and the next one finds a flaw in this other one. I think the entertainment-value of science is greatly underappreciated. And quantum computing is without doubt one of the most dramatic areas at the moment. One the one hand you have people claiming it’s the next industrial revolution and it’s going to change the world, on the other hand you have people saying it’s all hype, quantum computers are interesting but useless. This new paper supports the latter camp. Let’s have a look.
The potentially dangerous implications of an AI tool creating extremely realistic video
The realism of AI-generated video is one of the more remarkable, and potentially scary, developments we’ve seen so far with the technology. Oren Etzioni studies artificial intelligence and is the founder of truemedia.org, an organization that fights against AI-based disinformation. Etzioni joined William Brangham to discuss the future of AI.
I feel so connected
Apple recently launched their first new platform in almost a decade. With the Apple Vision Pro, we have entered the world of spacial computing. Is the Vision Pro the future? I bought the newest virtual reality/mixed reality headset to find out. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.