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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]