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 […]
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 […]
If you are interested in dabbling with the use of VR in the workplace, take a look at this video from CNET where Justin Eastzer puts Meta’s Quest Pro headset through its paces as a tool to enhance collaboration and interactivity in the office using avatars and the metaverse. 00:00 Intro 01:11 Setting Up Workroom […]
Film, TV and media is not a ‘special’ industry to work in, but it is certainly different from most others. That’s something that has been debated for decades, but is it true? Writing on Linkedin, independent industry advisor Philip Covell believes a specific approach to applying for jobs within this industry is required, including the […]
Writing on ZDNet, Sabrina Ortiz has listed the best tools available right now, including, of course, Dall-E and Midjourney, but also some interesting and handy alternatives. Below are the basics. See Sabrina’s article for more details. Dall-E – best overall Pros Fast Not copyrighted Accurate depictions Cons Limited Credits No app Features Generates four images […]
We all know by now that text-based generative AI tools such as Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion “create works of their own by drawing on patterns they’ve identified in vast troves of existing, human-created content”. Late last year, speech-based ChatGPT (short for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), whose job is “optimising language models for dialogue”, arrived […]