The new programme “brings socio-technical standards” and provides “guidance and considerations to aid the development of trustworthy AI to the global community” “By making available vital building blocks, the IEEE GET Program for AI Ethics and Governance Standards will help contribute to creating AI systems which are more trustworthy and further the goal of raising […]
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Virtual production for commercials – ESG, economics and creativity
We read and hear a lot about Hollywood films and high-end TV being shot on LED stages with sophisticated in-camera visual effects, but what’s happening in adland? Driven by ESG (Environmental, social and corporate governance) ambitions as well as economics – productions “cost less if you know what you are doing, and … emit less […]
Veritone Voice clone Alan Smith for text-to-speech football commentary
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 […]
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 […]