The media and entertainment metaverse will be a unified space that brings multiple virtual worlds together on a single, interoperable M&E-focused platform. It will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. These multiple, interconnected immersive virtual spaces are going to change […]
Watching the announcements live on the BBC from Los Angeles.
Getty Images has filed a legal case against Stability AI over alleged copyright violation. Stability AI has received a letter before action – a formal notification of impending litigation in the UK. The claim, outlined in a press statement is that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed (or “scraped”) millions of images protected by copyright” to train […]
California lawyer and production company owner Jake Watson clearly and concisely outlines the copyright problems surrounding the creation of new derivative – or are they transformative? – art works using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. He focuses on the recent legal case against StabilityAI, the owners of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Image source: Pixexid
On today’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week, Adam Rutherford looks at how video games now occupy a significant place in our daily lives, whether we acknowledge their importance and impact or not. Today’s guests Architect Sandra Youkhana co-authors Videogame Atlas in which she examines the real-world architectural theory that underpins games’ fantasy […]
Microsoft’s new VALL-E “neural codec language model” can closely simulate a person’s voice when given just a three-second audio sample, and once it learns a specific voice, it can synthesise audio of that person saying anything, including with the right emotional tone. Pair VALL-E with another generative AI models such as GPT-3 and you have a content […]