Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 8/20/24. We aim to educate people about this crucial area along with providing information of what is taking place.
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
My lifestyle of a busy schedule can't keep up with long form blogging, so can I still get all premium benefits sticking to threading and engagement like I would on twitter? #freecompliments #cent
What do you mean all premium benefits?
Many of the premium features are actually tied to threads.
I meant profit from the monthly subscription payment so at least I can keep going with it
SpaceX
SpaceX will launch first mission with astronauts walking in space
SpaceX, the company owned by South African billionaire Elon Musk, is preparing its next mission, which will take astronauts to walk in space. The trip has just been officially scheduled, and should take place on August 26th.
It is SpaceX's first attempt to send astronauts to walk in space - and the first endeavor of its kind in the private space exploration sector. The mission, called Polaris Dawn, represents the first of three flights purchased by fellow billionaire Jared Isaacman. As Isaacman stated to CNBC, the flight should launch in the early hours of the 26th, in Florida.
#newsonleo #technology #spacex #space
Do you pay attention to what is going on with space #technology?
Not as much as I would like. But I'm very interested in space exploration.
Regarding space technology, it's incredible what SpaceX is doing and giving us the possibility of saving a lot of money with the propellants that return to Earth.
I remember the day this test went well, I celebrated as if it were a goal. LOL
I was happy because I knew that from that moment on, we would make significant progress with space exploration.
We will see what they come up with. I dont follow them closely either.
I think one of the focuses at the moment is returning to the Moon with a crew.
With the technology we have today, it will be very interesting to see what we can see and do there.
It seems there are a lot of different things in focus. Time to keep pushing forward with technological advancement.
We all have a part in this even if we are doing little things like on here.
@mightpossibly Did you see this?
Interesting advancement.
Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha is HERE & Can Make AI Videos Faster Than You Can Type!
#technology #ai
I did not! That's amazing. Gonna have to try this one out
I figured you would like to get all over that one.
Give it another year and it will be amazing what people will be able to do for free.
It is half the cost to run.
From 10 credits per sec to 5.
Over and over again, year after year, skeptics have claimed “deep learning won’t be able to do X” and have been quickly proven wrong.If there’s one lesson we’ve learned from the past decade of AI, it’s that you should never bet against deep learning.
#ai #technology
It was only a matter of time before this happened.
Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement.
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement. Three authors said in the filing that Anthropic "built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books," including their own.
Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google and Salesforce.
#newsonleo #anthropic #ai #technology #lawsuit
Perhaps we are seeing the first of many who have become millionaires because of violating copyright.
I believe there may be other ways to obtain data without committing crimes.
We are going to see a lot of crazy things. #ai is moving so fast that few can keep up, especially the legal system.
Yes, it's very fast and there are things that surprise me a lot. Sometimes it's not possible to keep up with everything at the same time hahaha...
This means that a lot is being done and evolving.
We have to keep pushing.
There are about 10 days left until we get to the end of the month. Need to add a lot of shorts.
You're right, we'll make it.
I'm bringing shorts and different tastes and styles for anyone who wants to check them out.
When Page Views return to the platform, it will be very interesting to see how shorts will help the platform in this process.
It will be. There is a lot that can be done once the feed is live. I did test it a bit. Pretty cool. But there needs to be more posts since I believe it is nothing more than the latest feed.
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson alleged in the lawsuit that "an essential component of Anthropic's business model — and its flagship 'Claude' family of large language models (or 'LLMs')— is the largescale theft of copyrighted works," later alleging that "Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of Plaintiffs' works, made copies of them, and fed these pirated copies into its models."
The lawsuit follows Anthropic's June debut of its most powerful AI model yet, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year.
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I'm back from the mountains. Let's fill up this threadcast :)
The Guardian: AI-generated parody song about immigrants storms into German Top 50
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/18/artificial-intelligence-song-immigrants-germany-top-50
The Guardian: Tesla faces lowest duty on Chinese-made cars exported to EU
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/20/tesla-faces-lowest-duty-on-chinese-made-cars-exported-to-eu
European Union slashes planned tariffs on China-made Tesla EVs, other Chinese firms
The European Union on Tuesday said a planned tariff on Tesla vehicles being imported from China would be cut to 9% from 20.8%.
The European Union on Tuesday said planned tariffs on Tesla vehicles being imported from China would be cut to 9% from 20.8%, while also reducing a number of planned import duties on other Chinese electric vehicle firms.
In June, the EU said it would slap higher tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, which it found benefit "heavily from unfair subsidies" and pose a "threat of economic injury" to EV producers in Europe.
#eu #business #evs #tariffs #technology #newsonleo
The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, announced a preliminary conclusion that the battery-electric vehicles value chain in China "benefits from unfair subsidisation" and pronounced that it is in the EU's interest to impose "provisional countervailing duties" on BEV imports from China.
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The Guardian: Vision Pro review: Apple’s cutting-edge headset lives up to the hype
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/20/vision-pro-review-apple-cutting-edge-headset-lives-up-to-the-hype
AP: Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement
https://apnews.com/article/authors-sue-anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-copyright-54ae787070bdfc8019ab29b70487c02d
BBC: Meet Chubby, the bizarre AI-generated cat who could be the future of the internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240819-why-these-ai-cat-videos-may-be-the-internets-future
BBC: The mind-bending mirrors behind advanced technology
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1646ewzleo
BBC: Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240816-the-japanese-farms-recycling-waste-food
Wired: Climate Change’s Latest Deadly Threat: Lightning Strikes
https://www.wired.com/story/thunder-lightning-strike-deaths-india/
Wired: The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone ‘Hellscape’ to Defend Taiwan
https://www.wired.com/story/china-taiwan-pentagon-drone-hellscape/
Reuters: Swiss engineering firm Schlatter says IT systems back up after cyberattack
https://www.reuters.com/technology/swiss-engineering-firm-schlatter-says-it-systems-back-up-after-cyberattack-2024-08-20/
Reuters: Taiwan July export orders beat forecasts on AI chip demand; orders from China flat
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/taiwan-july-export-orders-beat-forecasts-ai-chip-demand-orders-china-flat-2024-08-20/
Reuters: U.S. says Iran cyber operations targeted Trump, Harris campaigns
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-says-iran-cyber-operations-targeted-trump-harris-campaigns-2024-08-19/
Reuters: X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-close-operations-brazil-effective-immediately-2024-08-17/
Gemini Live could use some more rehearsals
Gemini Live, Google's answer to OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode, is now available. But it needs some serious work.
What’s the point of chatting with a human-like bot if it’s an unreliable narrator — and has a colorless personality?
That’s the question I’ve been turning over in my head since I began testing Gemini Live, Google’s take on OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, last week. Gemini Live is an attempt at a more engaging chatbot experience — one with realistic voices and the freedom to interrupt the bot at any point.
#technology #ai #gemini #chatgpt
Gemini Live is “custom-tuned to be intuitive and have a back-and-forth, actual conversation,” Sissie Hsiao, GM for Gemini experiences at Google, told TechCrunch in May. “[It] can provide information more succinctly and answer more conversationally than, for example, if you’re interacting in just text. We think that an AI assistant should be able to solve complex problems … and also feel very natural and fluid when you engage with it.”
After spending a fair amount of time with Gemini Live, I can confirm that it is more free-flowing and natural-feeling than Google’s previous attempts at AI-powered voice interactions (see: Google Assistant). But it doesn’t address the problems of the underlying tech, like hallucinations and inconsistencies — and it introduces a few new ones.
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US tech giants fight Indian telcos' bid to regulate internet services, pay for network usage
Global technology giants are pushing back against attempts by India's telecom networks to bring internet services under stricter regulation, rejecting Global technology giants are pushing back against attempts by India's telecom networks to bring internet services under stricter regulation.
Global technology giants are pushing back against attempts by India’s telecom networks to bring internet services under stricter regulation, rejecting arguments that such measures are necessary to create a “level playing field” and address national security concerns.
#technology #india #telcos
The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a powerful industry body that represents Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify, has forcefully argued against inclusion of the so-called over-the-top (OTT) services in the proposed regulatory framework (PDF) for telecom operators.
In a submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the AIC said there are fundamental differences in technology, operations and functionality between OTT services and traditional telecom operations.)
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Former Google CEO Spills ALL! (Google AI is Doomed)
Summary in comments ⏬
Here's a summary of the key points from Eric Schmidt's interview at Stanford:
AI Impact: Schmidt believes the impact of AI will be much larger than social media's impact when delivered at scale.
Google's Culture: Schmidt criticized Google for prioritizing work-life balance over "winning" in AI development.
AI Leaders: He sees the gap widening between frontier AI companies (likely OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and others.
Energy Requirements: Schmidt highlighted the massive energy needs for AI development, suggesting partnerships with Canada for hydropower.
AI Investment: He noted a potential investment bubble in AI, with around $1 trillion invested but only $30 billion in revenue so far.
Key AI Developments: Schmidt emphasized three key areas:
AI Regulation: He mentioned a threshold of 10^26 FLOPS above which companies would need to report AI development to the government.
Global AI Competition: Schmidt sees the US-China competition for "knowledge supremacy" as the defining battle of our lifetimes.
Misinformation Concerns: He expressed worry about AI's potential to generate convincing misinformation, especially during elections.
Future of Programming: Schmidt suggested that AI will significantly boost programmer productivity and may eventually reduce the need for human programmers.
Geopolitical AI Landscape: He discussed various countries' positions in AI development, noting India's potential and Europe's regulatory challenges.
Advice for Entrepreneurs: Schmidt emphasized the importance of rapid prototyping using AI tools, suggesting that ideas should be prototyped within a day to stay competitive.
Pakistan's PostEx to enter new markets, starting with Saudi Arabia
Pakistani startup PostEx is entering Saudi Arabia as first global market after hitting $21 million ARR in the South Asian nation.
Pakistani startup PostEx, offering financial and logistics services to online merchants, is set to enter new markets, beginning with Saudi Arabia this year, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
“We want to go into other markets to really disrupt them because we see the gap,” said Muhammad Omer Khan, founder and CEO of PostEx, in an interview.
E-commerce in Pakistan, which currently sits at around 1.5% of its total retail market, has grown 50% in the last 12 months. PostEx is a likely contributor to that growth.
#newsonleo #postex #technology #ecommerce
Online merchants in Pakistan find it challenging to sustain their business and achieve growth, as 95% of transactions are paid with cash on delivery. Courier companies in the South Asian nation take 10 to 15 days to settle those transactions from the dispatch time to delivery. All this leads to working capital issues for online merchants.
In 2020, Khan founded PostEx to solve these issues by giving merchants upfront payments against cash-on-delivery orders, and an attached logistics service. After getting regulated as a non-bank financial institution in Pakistan, the startup also launched a growth capital offering for online merchants. However, to reduce risks, the startup does not provide pure financial support to merchants, and only gives them credit if they use its logistics service.
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Could Trump's AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?
On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted a collection of memes on Truth Social -- the platform owned by his media company -- that make it seem like
On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted a collection of memes on Truth Social — the platform owned by his media company — that make it seem like Taylor Swift and her fans are coming out in support of his candidacy. But as new legislation takes effect, these images could have deeper implications about the use of AI-generated images in political campaigns, especially when those images misrepresent a celebrity’s likeness.
#newsonleo #technology #trump #taylorswift
“One of the things I’m seeing a lot of in my practice right now is the rise of AI impersonators across the board for endorsements,” Noah Downs, an IP and entertainment lawyer, told TechCrunch, with the condition that his comments are not legal advice. These fake AI endorsements have become so widespread that even “Shark Tank” had to publish a PSA to warn fans about the prevalence of scams that impersonate the show’s investors.
In one of the images Trump posted, hordes of young women wear matching “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts. While there is indeed political diversity among the large population of Swift fans, these images appear to be AI-generated — in fact, these particular images come from a satirical post on X.
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The Future of AI: 100+ Predictions
#ai #technology
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity 'technocapitalist' school
Former a16z-investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island in Singapore to create his own “Network School.”
Depending on your thoughts on the intersection of crypto and Silicon Valley’s libertarians, this is either a dream idea or an odd one: Former a16z investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island in Singapore to create his own “Network School.” This is where he’ll run programs on crypto, longevity and what it takes to establish “a technocapitalist college town,” as he put it in his post announcing the initiative.
#newsonleo #technology #longevity
It’s the most meaningful milestone yet for Srinivasan’s dream of creating “network states,” which he defines as an internet community that secures a physical location and “gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states,” he wrote.
The concept has enraptured the libertarian subsection of Silicon Valley; Srinivasan earned praise from Marc Andreessen and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and has inspired fellow crypto enthusiasts to start their own “network states.” In addition to his years at a16z, which ended in 2018, Srinivasan is also known for his year as Coinbase’s CTO after Coinbase bought his crypto startup Earn.com in 2018. And he’s a board member of the crypto nonprofit advocacy and lobbying organization Coin Center, which champions for policies like anonymity for crypto holders from the IRS.
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Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M seed funding
Starpath Robotics wants to make the moon a refueling station for rockets, lunar landers and other spacecraft.
NASA and the space industry are in agreement: if we want to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, we’ll need to make use of every native resource we can — and none are as important as water ice.
Starpath Robotics is one of a handful of startups planning for this future. The startup is betting that there will be a thriving market for liquid oxygen (LOX) refined from lunar water ice, and that harvesting this resource will be key to humanity’s expansion throughout the solar system. LOX is a crucial component of propellant for some vehicles like rockets and spacecraft like lunar landers, and its used as the oxidizer alongside a combustible fuel such as hydrogen, kerosene, or methane.
The company came out of stealth last September with an ambitious water harvesting architecture, involving mining rovers, refineries and LOX storage systems. Starpath wants to launch a demo mission “as quickly as we possibly can,” CEO Saurav Shroff said in a recent interview. To ensure the hardware will be ready whenever a launch vehicle is available, the company announced today that it has closed a $12 million seed round, co-led by 8VC and Fusion Fund, with participation from Day One Ventures, Balerion Space, and Indicator Ventures. The new funding brings the total capital raised to date to over $14.5 million.
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Reliant's paper-scouring AI takes on science's data drudgery
AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there's plenty of that in research
AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there’s plenty of that in research and academia. Reliant hopes to specialize in the kind of time-consuming data extraction work that’s currently a specialty of tired grad students and interns.
“The best thing you can do with AI is improve the human experience: reduce menial labor and let people do the things that are important to them,” said CEO Karl Moritz. In the research world, where he and co-founders Marc Bellemare and Richard Schlegel have worked for years, literature review is one of the most common examples of this “menial labor.”
#technology #ai
Every paper cites previous and related work, but finding these sources in the sea of science is not easy. And some, like systematic reviews, cite or use data from thousands.
For one study, Moritz recalled, “The authors had to look at 3,500 scientific publications, and a lot of them ended up not being relevant. It’s a ton of time spent extracting a tiny amount of useful information — this felt like something that really ought to be automated by AI.”
They knew that modern language models could do it: one experiment put ChatGPT on the task and found that it was able to extract data with an 11% error rate. Like many things LLMs can do, it’s impressive but nothing like what people actually need.
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Demand for AI is driving data center water consumption sky high
The demand for AI is fueling a data center boom, which in turn is driving up the consumption of water to cool equipment in those data centers.
The AI boom is fueling the demand for data centers and, in turn, driving up water consumption. (Water is used to cool the computing equipment inside data centers.) According to FT, in Virginia — home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers — water usage jumped by almost two-thirds between 2019 and 2023, from 1.13 billion gallons to 1.85 billion gallons.
#ai #technology #water
Many say the trend, playing out worldwide, is unsustainable. Microsoft, a major data center operator, says 42% of the water it consumed in 2023 came from “areas with water stress.” Google, which has among the largest data center footprints, said this year that 15% of its freshwater withdrawals came from areas with “high water scarcity.”
Why can’t data centers recycle water in a closed-loop system? Many do, but much of what they consume is set aside for humidity control, meaning it evaporates. Especially in drier regions, air that’s not humidified can become a strong conductor of static electricity, which is usually bad news for computers.
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The Waymo robotaxi honking problem has been resolved for real this time
The great nightly Waymo honk-a-thon — in which the company’s robotaxis erupted into a chorus of honking at night’s end in a San Francisco parking lot— was resolved, then not. Now it is again.
The backstory: Software engineer Sophia Tung set up a livestream of the parking lot that captured the robotaxis streaming in to park — and honk — for up to an hour around 4 a.m.
Waymo last week issued a software patch to ensure the robotaxis — often in close quarters — would not honk at each other. But at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, the livestream captured, yes, more honking.
#waymo #technology #robotaxi #newsonleo
Now, another patch has been issued, per an interview Monday between Tung and Waymo Director of Product and Operations Vishay Nihalani on her livestream. Nihalani explained that while it makes a lot of sense for Waymos to honk on public roads, the group honking was an unintended consequence.
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I asked meta AI, to show me a picture of blood clot around the neck area and it sent me this picture, i don't know if this is correct.
#Ai
It looks more like a fruit on the neck.
exactly what i was thinking.
Here is what Ideogram did, which is even worse. Looks like something out of a horror film.
it's giving horror movies vibes.
Yeah. The image generators are still flawed but getting better. Let me try through ideogram.
Not on the neck but here is one on the foot.
It's looking like blood, but on a second look it's looking like a scoop of strawberry ice cream.
AI mental health tools: AI tools screen speech for signs of mental health concerns like depression and anxiety.
Zinc-air micro battery: A new zinc-air mmicro battery could power tiny robots for drug delivery and more.
I love this new innovation.
Robots and human inattentiveness: A new algorithm helps robots recognize and respond to human inattentiveness.
Teamwork and robots: Programming robots to form teams and wait for each other can speed up task completion.
Editing Babies Before They're Born?
Human prenatal #genome editing isn’t happening yet, but it's on the horizon. Imagine fixing genetic issues before birth to prevent diseases. Sounds incredible, right? But it’s not that simple. The #technology raises big ethical questions about how far we should go in altering #DNA. Read about the potential societal impacts and the tough choices we might face in the near future.
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Are Kids Growing Up Too Fast Online?
A recent study shows just how early #kids are diving into #socialmedia. By age 7, 31% of kids are already on X, and 28% are using Reddit. By 10, almost half (42%) own #smartphones, spending over 2 hours a day on TikTok. As they grow older, social media use skyrockets. 38% of 13-15-year-olds use Snapchat to chat, while teens 16-18 split their time between TikTok and Instagram.
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US drops technology export bans for Australia and United Kingdom
The Biden administration has lifted most bans on defense technology sharing with Australia and the United Kingdom in order to fast-track the development of emerging weapons technologies among the allies.
“These critical reforms will revolutionize defense trade, innovation and cooperation, enabling collaboration at the speed and scale required to meet our challenging strategic circumstances,” Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said Thursday.
#technology #defense
The agreement is designed to establish “an export license-free environment,” as Australian officials put it, in conjunction with the implementation of the AUKUS deal between the three allies. Although the Australian navy’s acquisition of U.S. and British nuclear submarine technology has dominated the international spotlight, “Pillar Two” of the AUKUS deal also aims to harness the advanced technology sectors of each country in a bid to win an emerging technology race with China.
“As tensions increase, and conflicts continue around the globe, our partnerships with our allies are critically important,” British Defense Secretary John Healey said Thursday. “This is a breakthrough that will allow our three nations to deepen our collaboration on defence technology and trade. Our new government will reinforce the UK’s role in AUKUS to boost Britain’s military capabilities and economic growth.”
President Joe Biden’s team regards emerging technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence as “the strategic high ground,” as Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell put it recently. The pressure to outpace China, which is pouring money into a military modernization project powered in part by stolen from Western companies, spurred officials in Washington, London, and Canberra to put a premium on Pillar Two of the deal.
“We need to build an innovation system … across our three countries which stimulates the defense industry base across our three countries,” Marles said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event last week. “Each of us have our own innovation systems which are focused on our own domestic defense industry bases. How we get value add here is by really kind of getting those much more harmonized.”
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Tyler Perry pauses studio expansion ‘indefinitely’ due to latest AI technology
Director Tyler Perry said his $800 million studio expansion is now “indefinitely on hold” after he saw what OpenAI’s Sora program can do.
Last week, OpenAI announced its latest artificial intelligence program could turn text into video clips that are up to one minute long. According to the company, the advancement means that its AI can “understand and simulate the physical world in motion.” Perry sees this as an opportunity for the film industry but is also worried about job losses, according to an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
#technology #Hollywood #tylerperry #ai
“There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us. If not, I just don’t see how we survive,” Perry said, speaking also as an actor. “I think it’s going to be a major game-changer because if you could spend a fraction of the cost to do a pilot that would’ve cost $15 [million], $20 million, or even $35 million if you’re looking at HBO, of course the bottom line of those companies would be to go the route of lesser costs. So I am very, very concerned that in the near future, a lot of jobs are going to be lost. I really, really feel that very strongly.”
However, Perry did report he did not feel “any pressure to use” AI. But the unfinished studio expansion had already taken four years until he paused its construction. Meanwhile, AI saved Perry from sitting “through hours of aging makeup” and subsequently removed the need to hire a makeup artist. Perry was in the middle of building an additional 12 soundstages to a 330-acre property he owns for future film projects. Now, the director has already used AI in two of his films that have yet to be released.
“I no longer would have to travel to locations. If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it’s text. If I wanted to write a scene on the moon, it’s text, and this AI can generate it like nothing,” Perry said. “If I wanted to have two people in the living room in the mountains, I don’t have to build a set in the mountains, I don’t have to put a set on my lot. I can sit in an office and do this with a computer, which is shocking to me.”
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists recently wrote up a new contract with the major studios that included protections against AI. Now, contracts require consent from performers before their likeness is infused with AI and compensation should they opt into it.
Similarly, the House has announced a bipartisan task force to regulate AI. According to Perry, Congress should “galvanize” to protect those in Hollywood who will be negatively affected by the technology.
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How to Get FREE Max, Paramount+, Netflix, Apple TV+, & More
#technology #entertainment
Things are changing at a rapid pace.
#ai #technology
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Do you believe this?
#ai #technology #agi
AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.
Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type
After showing it off in a preview late last month, Runway ML has officially released Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, the latest version of the AI video generation model that it claims is seven times faster and half the cost of its predecessor, Gen-3 Alpha.
The goal? Make AI video production more accessible to a wider audience across all subscription plans, including free trials.
#ai #video #generativeai #technology
The New York City-based company announced the news on its X account, writing: “Gen-3 Alpha Turbo Image to Video is now available and can generate 7x faster for half the price of the original Gen-3 Alpha. All while still matching performance across many use cases. Turbo is available for all plans, including trial for free users. More improvements to the model, control mechanisms and possibilities for real-time interactivity to come.”
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LeoAI is going to have a few important components to it (as I see it now).
Some will take time to implement.
If you want to stay up with what #leoai could potentially do, watch Meta and the news coming out about Llama 3.1 (and ensuing models).
This is what LeoAi was trained on.
#technology #ai
Build your own AI-powered robot: Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial is a game-changer
Hugging Face, the open-source AI powerhouse, has taken a significant step towards democratizing low-cost robotics with the release of a detailed tutorial that guides developers through the process of building and training their own AI-powered robots.
The tutorial, published today, builds upon the company’s LeRobot platform launched in May and marks a significant move to bring artificial intelligence into the physical world.
#ai #robots #technology #huggingface
This initiative marks a pivotal moment in the field of robotics, traditionally dominated by large corporations and research institutions with substantial resources.
By providing a comprehensive guide that covers everything from sourcing parts to deploying AI models, Hugging Face is empowering developers of all skill levels to experiment with cutting-edge robotics technology.
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Here is what Claude3 had to say:
What is the easiest way to make money off AI
There are a few potential ways to make money from AI, but I should note that none are necessarily "easy" and all require skills, effort and often capital:
Developing AI applications or services: If you have technical skills, you could create AI-powered software or tools to sell.
AI consulting: Advising businesses on how to implement AI solutions.
Creating AI-related content: Writing articles, making videos, or teaching courses about AI.
Investing in AI companies: Though this requires capital and carries financial risks.
Using AI tools to enhance an existing business: For example, using AI for better customer service or product recommendations.
AI-assisted creative work: Using AI tools to help produce art, music, or writing that you can sell.
Participating in AI research studies or data labeling projects.
It's important to note that the AI field is competitive and rapidly evolving. Success typically requires expertise, innovation, and hard work rather than quick or easy solutions. Additionally, ethical considerations should always be kept in mind when working with AI technologies.
Can you design me a plan to go from 0 net worth to $10 million? how can I become a millionaire
Achieving a net worth of $10 million is an ambitious goal that typically requires a combination of strategic planning, hard work, and often some element of luck or timing. Here's a general framework that could potentially lead to significant wealth accumulation:
Develop valuable skills:
Increase your income:
Live below your means:
Invest consistently and wisely:
Start a business:
Network and build relationships:
Protect and grow your wealth:
Be patient and persistent:
Remember, there's no guaranteed path to becoming a millionaire, and it often involves significant risk and hard work. This plan provides a general framework, but success depends on many factors, including market conditions, personal circumstances, and sometimes unpredictable opportunities.
Is there way wealth generation program, coupled with AI, that you can design for me?
While I can't provide a guaranteed path to wealth, I can outline a strategy that leverages AI to potentially enhance wealth generation. Keep in mind that all investments and business ventures carry risks, and success is never guaranteed. Here's a conceptual program that combines various wealth-building strategies with AI applications:
AI-Enhanced Skill Development:
AI-Driven Career Optimization:
AI-Assisted Budgeting and Saving:
AI-Enhanced Investing:
AI-Powered Business Ventures:
AI-Optimized Real Estate Investing:
AI-Enhanced Networking:
Continuous AI-Driven Optimization:
AI-Assisted Side Hustles:
AI Security and Risk Management:
This program aims to use AI as a tool to enhance traditional wealth-building strategies. It's important to note that while AI can provide valuable insights and efficiencies, human judgment, hard work, and ethical considerations remain crucial.