Director Peter Hyoguchi’s new film Gods Of Mars, which is currently in production, is the latest to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of virtual production technology,. Unreal Engine and virtual set technology have enabled the production team to develop what was intended as a small-scale adventure story into something much more ambitious. […]
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HPE’s latest Apollo 6500 server crushes AI tasks
On 9 November, HPE introduced its most powerful server ever, the Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus, which can accommodate 4, 8, 10, or 16 GPUs and is designed specifically for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence workloads. The demand for HPC and AI is increasing exponentially. Companies want to analyse and exploit their data to gain […]
Superintelligence gets a Thanksgiving laugh out of AI
This Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]
Virgin Media’s TV 360: new STB, Mini box and smart remote
Virgin Media’s new cable platform TV 360 has been announced. As well as all the usual linear channels you would expect, there’s also Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer, all of which can be watched in 4K UHD and HDR. The new set top box a allows viewers to record six channels at the […]
Disney Research fixes its gaze on a humanoid future
For some, this is the stuff of nightmares. For others, it’s one of the paths out of the ‘uncanny valley’, which is inhabited by humanlike figures that make use feel uneasy or uncomfortable by failing to be truly convincing. This video describes the development of a system for lifelike gaze in human-robot interactions using a […]
Mental machine music
How OpenAI’s Jukebox project is deepfaking Sinatra, Elvis, 2Pac and more OpenAI, which describes itself as a “research and deployment company” and which is the home of, amongst other things, GPT-3, is running a project that uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with lyrics, in a variety of genres and artist styles. Jukebox as […]