What if you’re a painfully shy sports journalist with fantastic observational and descriptive skills, or your accent or perhaps a speech impediment prevents you from having a career as a football commentator. Never fear, Alan’s here. Using NLP (Neuro-linguistic Processing) algorithms, Veritone Voice have cloned former Arsenal favourite, now expert Sky Sports commentator Alan Smith‘s […]
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Runway adds startling Gen-1 text- and image-to-video generator
Working much better than other, similar AI-powered tools that generate videos assembled from hundreds of (AI-generated) images, Runway, from the makers of text-to-image AI tool Stable Diffusion, is a feature-rich video editor that separates itself from the herd. With 30+ AI Magic Tools, real-time video editing, collaboration, and more, Runway is your next-generation content creation […]
Samsung, Google, Qualcomm partnership likely to yield a mixed reality headset
Building on an established relationship whereby Samsung builds the hardware of its Galaxy phones, while Qualcomm supplies the processor and Google manages the software’s underlying Android operating system, the trio have announced a joint venture initiative to develop a new mixed reality platform, though they have no technology to show as yet. This looks looks distinctly like […]
ChatGPT lands $183,000 L3 coding job at Google
ChatGPT has passed a Google exam that involves answering mainly technical questions that would see it hired for a Level-3 engineering position commanding a salary of around $183,000. The experiment using the company’s interview process was done as part of the their recent testing of a number of AI chatbots. The exercise raises the question that […]
Curzon Mayfair to close and return as state-of-the-art cinema, restaurant and bar
Mixed emotions perhaps for film lovers in central London as the two-screen Curzon Mayfair announces that is with close in 2024 when its lease expires to be replaced by a new, state-of-the-art single screen Mayfair Cinema. The landlords 38 Curzon Lease Ltd. say they are intent on “restoring its beautiful original features and giving it […]
Google reacts to “code red” emergency over ChatGPT with Bard
After founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were brought back into the business to help deal with the threatening emergence of ChatGPT, Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)-based chatbot rival, Bard, which “draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses” goes into beta for selected users from Monday 13 February. ChatGPT […]