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Hollywood Fears AI’s Impact on Film & TV: Insights from a Cinema Scholar
The bitter conflict between actors, writers and other creative professionals and the major movie and TV studios represents a flashpoint in the radical transformation roiling the entertainment industry. The ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild were sparked in part by artificial intelligence and its use in the movie industry. Both actors and writers fear that the major studios, including Amazon/MGM, Apple, Disney/ABC/Fox, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount/CBS, Sony, Warner Bros. and HBO, will use generative AI to exploit them. Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence that learns from text and images to automatically produce new written and visual […]
Next Up: Studio Yorktown Talks Digital Artistry and Human Craftsmanship
As we delve deeper into the digital age, the intersection of art, technology, and AI has created a new universe of creativity. This realm, where human craftsmanship melds seamlessly with the intricacies of digital artistry, is where artists like Studio Yorktown thrive. Every week, nft now’s Next Up unveils a new artist from our curated list of ascendant talents who have been making significant waves throughout Web3. This week, we’re excited to feature Studio Yorktown. Studio Yorktown Kwame Bruce Busia, better known as Studio Yorktown, is a visionary artist and creative entrepreneur who blends the worlds of design, architecture, and digital art […]
Inside the Digital Fashion Explosion With DressX
If we’re in a bear market, digital fashion didn’t get the memo. Leading luxury fashion houses like Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada, and Valentino have all made significant moves in the fast-growing space over the past year. Meanwhile, a new generation of digitally-native brands is helping hoist the torch for the burgeoning movement, which is poised to continue expanding its influence within the $1.7 trillion fashion industry. Founded in 2018 by Daria Shapovalova and Natalia Modenova, DressX is a leading digital fashion retailer that has partnered with likes of Bershka, H&M, Rebecca Minkoff, and DUNDAS, and recently raised a $15 […]
Next Up: Mumbot’s ‘Cool, Cute, and Creepy’ World of Phygital Art
In Web3, it’s become almost a rarity for an artist to focus exclusively on one single medium. Perhaps because the crypto-art sector itself takes a variety of skills to enter, the vast majority of creatives that call the blockchain their home usually dabble in an assortment of disciplines. From illustration to digital painting, sculpting, animation, and everything in between, the cross-pollination of artistry that can be found throughout the metaverse is undoubtedly indicative of the special and still growing creative culture of the NFT space. And when it comes to crafting and curating this culture, some go above and beyond. […]
Exclusive: Yuga Labs’ Chief Creative Officer Talks Otherside Preview
Yuga Labs, the company behind several of the Web3 space’s most successful and well-known NFT brands, previewed its latest Otherwise metaverse developments to a small group of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside community members on July 27 in Studio City, California. The group, which consisted of 40 Voyagers, got a chance to check out never-before-seen concept art for Otherside that has been in development for the past year and take part in a walk-through of a part of the island that resides at the center of the metaverse. Otherside Test Group: A Recap pic.twitter.com/57gh9g8VlA — Othersidemeta (@OthersideMeta) July 28, […]
If AI Image Generators Are So Smart, Why Do They Struggle to Write and Count?
Generative AI tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 have astounded us with their ability to produce remarkable images in a matter of seconds. Despite their achievements, however, there remains a puzzling disparity between what AI image generators can produce and what we can. For instance, these tools often won’t deliver satisfactory results for seemingly simple tasks such as counting objects and producing accurate text. If generative AI has reached such unprecedented heights in creative expression, why does it struggle with tasks even a primary school student could complete? Exploring the underlying reasons helps sheds light on the […]
How to Reset Your View of ChatGPT to Optimize Results
ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research tool. However, most people don’t understand how it works or what it can do, so they are either not happy with its results or not using it in a way that can draw out its best capabilities. I’m a human factors engineer. A core principle in my field is “never blame the user.” Unfortunately, the ChatGPT search-box interface elicits the wrong mental model and leads users to believe that entering a simple […]
Regulating AI: Experts Explain Why It’s Difficult (But Important) to Get Right
From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of generative artificial intelligence systems to create convincing but fictional text and images is setting off alarms about fraud and misinformation on steroids. Indeed, a group of artificial intelligence researchers and industry figures urged the industry on March 22, 2023, to pause further training of the latest AI technologies or, barring that, for governments to “impose a moratorium.” These technologies – image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable […]
Gambling Coins Are the Latest Meta. How Did We Get Here?
Hamster racing, snail racing, and now marble racing. It’s all happening in Web3. Hamsters.gg, a platform purporting to be the first ever to livestream hamster races, has rapidly gathered a dedicated following of betters in the Web3 space eager to amass fortunes through races. Hamsters are put into specially designed racing lanes equipped with automated starting gates. Prior to the beginning of each race, users can place wagers on the racing hamster they favor. The concept quickly became popular, leading to the creation of numerous similar platforms featuring different animals, such as Snail Trail ($SLIME), Race (RABBIT), and Rat Roulette […]
Expert: AI Systems “Should be Biased,” Just Not In the Way We Think
When I asked ChatGPT for a joke about Sicilians the other day, it implied that Sicilians are stinky. As somebody born and raised in Sicily, I reacted to ChatGPT’s joke with disgust. But at the same time, my computer scientist brain began spinning around a seemingly simple question: Should ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems be allowed to be biased? Credit: Emilio Ferrara, CC BY-ND You might say “Of course not!” And that would be a reasonable response. But there are some researchers, like me, who argue the opposite: AI systems like ChatGPT should indeed be biased – but not […]