On 9 November, HPE introduced its most powerful server ever, the Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus, which can accommodate 4, 8, 10, or 16 GPUs and is designed specifically for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence workloads. The demand for HPC and AI is increasing exponentially. Companies want to analyse and exploit their data to gain […]
This Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]
Virgin Media’s new cable platform TV 360 has been announced. As well as all the usual linear channels you would expect, there’s also Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer, all of which can be watched in 4K UHD and HDR. The new set top box a allows viewers to record six channels at the […]
For some, this is the stuff of nightmares. For others, it’s one of the paths out of the ‘uncanny valley’, which is inhabited by humanlike figures that make use feel uneasy or uncomfortable by failing to be truly convincing. This video describes the development of a system for lifelike gaze in human-robot interactions using a […]
How OpenAI’s Jukebox project is deepfaking Sinatra, Elvis, 2Pac and more OpenAI, which describes itself as a “research and deployment company” and which is the home of, amongst other things, GPT-3, is running a project that uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with lyrics, in a variety of genres and artist styles. Jukebox as […]
Pinewood Studios Group has announced the launch of Screen Hub UK, a £450 million expansion of the Iver Heath site. Highlights include: 350,000 square feet of new film production facilitiesa a green campus an area dedicated to nurturing and growing new creative businesses related to film production an educational training and skills hub a film […]