The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his AI-generated shorts are going viral and Hollywood is calling. Source
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
In 2023, OpenAI told the UK parliament that it was “impossible” to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. It’s a popular stance in the AI world, where OpenAI...
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it had a...
Apple's MM1 AI Model Shows a Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up
A research paper quietly released by Apple describes an AI model called MM1 that can answer questions and analyze images. It’s the biggest sign yet that Apple is developing generative...
Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by representing the arrangement of players as a graph, with the...
What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy
Annie feels a jolt of alarm. “I could just set her there,” Doug says. “That’s easy enough.” “I know, but it would be better if she could do it herself.”...
Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules
YouTube has updated its rulebook for the era of deepfakes. Starting today, anyone uploading video to the platform must disclose certain uses of synthetic media, including generative AI, so viewers...
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few...
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid...
