There’s no escaping it, generative AI is getting right under everybody’s skin at the moment. Its widespread use in advertising is leading some brands to issue demands and warnings hither and thither in a bid to contain it and stop it, as they see it, from threatening their businesses. Following on from discussions and advice […]
Some of machine learning’s main issues are around time and cost and the amount of training material required to train models that are useful and produce accurate, pleasing results. Why is it so difficult? AI tools are ‘learning’ not to be caught out by people asking them nonsensical questions and have started to give as […]
The “first Ai-powered sports commercial”, a moody monochrome Under Armour spot starring British boxer Anthony Joshua, has stirred up controversy for its (initially) uncredited use of sections of previous UA ads as raw material. Director Wes Walker defends the ad, ‘Forever is made now’, saying they made the decision due to commercial and time pressures. […]
China’s Tencent, the home of WeChat, has announced a new version of its open source video generation model DynamiCrafter – visit the GitHub page. Like others, it uses the diffusion method to turn captions and still images into seconds-long videos. What is the diffusion method? It turns captions and still images into seconds-long videos. Diffusion models […]
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen assert that it is impossible to develop AI tools that will always be stable The main purpose of the research was to describe the problem in the language of mathematics and establish exactly how much noise must algorithms be able to withstand, and […]
Boundary-stretching filmmaker and visual artist Alan Warburton calculates that 99% of his new documentary The Wizard of AI, which was commissioned by the Open Data Institute, was made using generative AI tools. Of course, it’s nowhere near as easy as it might sound. “People have this idea that you can instantly convert your thoughts into […]