Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” — but the late directors’ estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles’ estate on behalf of the auteur’s daughter Beatrice, said that the family… Continue reading Orson Welles’ Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI
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Midjourney Is in Major Trouble
AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. According to documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the startup for “brazenly” infringing on its intellectual property by letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters — which, due to… Continue reading Midjourney Is in Major Trouble
Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment
One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of “Godfather of AI,” suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs… Continue reading Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment
Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
Artificial intelligence has notorious problems with accuracy — so maybe it’s not surprising that using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro found in new research, developers who used AI produce ten times more security problems than their counterparts who don’t use the technology. Looking at code from thousands of… Continue reading Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI
OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made largely with artificial intelligence. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the purported goal of using AI tech on the movie is to speed up production while also saving costs — and, presumably, serving as a giant… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI
Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023. The survey, which… Continue reading Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him
Never one to properly interpret anything scientific, uber-popular podcaster Joe Rogan has become entranced by a study that affirms his climate skepticism. Now, as The Guardian reports, one of the study’s authors is setting the record straight and pointing out that Rogan is not only drawing the exact opposite conclusion from the study, but that… Continue reading Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him
CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education
Months after debuting Cluely, the “undetectable AI that thinks for you,” 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin “Roy” Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. Indeed, there’s little doubt that AI has completely flipped education on its head. The availability of large language models (LLMs) at the press of a finger is all… Continue reading CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education
A Chemical in Plastic Is Wreaking Havoc on Unborn Children, Scientists Warn
Image by Getty / Futurism Some doctors are now advising their pregnant patients to avoid plastic itself, which contains harmful chemicals that can hurt some mothers and babies alike. Marya Zlatnik, a University of California at San Francisco fetal medicine specialist, told the Washington Post that when giving some of her early-pregnancy patients the rundown of… Continue reading A Chemical in Plastic Is Wreaking Havoc on Unborn Children, Scientists Warn
Massive Study Finds That There Really Is Something Wrong With Your Husband
Image by 20th Century Fox Ever meet a couple and immediately get the sense that they have some serious issues in common? According to a new study looking at generations of couples and their respective psychiatric issues from around the world, you might be onto something. In a wide-ranging new study for the journal Nature… Continue reading Massive Study Finds That There Really Is Something Wrong With Your Husband