Digital artists and visual effects pros acknowledge that artificial intelligence-driven tools can contribute to the creative process. But they lament that jobs will be lost, ethics will be challenged, and it could lead to a “dehumanization of art” in a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s podcast series Behind the Screen. The episode is an edited version of a candid panel discussion surrounding AI, recorded Oct. 19 at the View VFX and computer graphics conference in Torino, Italy. — Read More
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Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill
Today, I’m talking to Kashmir Hill, a New York Times reporter whose new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It, chronicles the story of Clearview AI, a company that’s built some of the most sophisticated facial recognition and search technology that’s ever existed. As Kashmir reports, you simply plug a photo of someone into Clearview’s app, and it will find every photo of that person that’s ever been posted on the internet. It’s breathtaking and scary.
Kashmir is a terrific reporter. At The Verge, we have been jealous of her work across Forbes, Gizmodo, and now, the Times for years. She’s long been focused on covering privacy on the internet, which she is first to describe as the dystopia beat because the amount of tracking that occurs all over our networks every day is almost impossible to fully understand or reckon with. But people get it when the systems start tracking faces — when that last bit of anonymity goes away
… But not everyone. Your Face Belongs to Us is the story of Clearview AI, a secretive startup that, until January 2020, was virtually unknown to the public, despite selling this state-of-art facial recognition system to cops and corporations. — Read More
Empathy in AI
… Reid [Hoffman] recently sat down with Mustafa [Suleyman] to discuss the ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence, as well as the ideals that were essential in creating the AI assistant, Pi. And we’re so excited to share this interview with you today, because it’s the perfect prologue to our upcoming miniseries, AI and You, where Reid will talk with an array of AI leaders, including Mustafa, to explore how you can harness AI to scale your productivity, your business, and yourself, while staying safe in the process. — Read More
AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More
The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear about the economics of AI, broad vs specialized models, the importance of UX, and whether we can expect scaling laws to continue. — Read More
What OpenAI Really Wants
The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.
… For Altman and his company, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are merely stepping stones along the way to achieving a simple and seismic mission, one these technologists may as well have branded on their flesh. That mission is to build artificial general intelligence—a concept that’s so far been grounded more in science fiction than science—and to make it safe for humanity. — Read More
The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao
In the debate over slowing down AI, we often hear the same argument against regulation. “What about China? We can’t let China get ahead.” To dig into the nuances of this argument, Tristan and Aza speak with academic researcher Jeffrey Ding and journalist Karen Hao, who take us through what’s really happening in Chinese AI development. They address China’s advantages and limitations, what risks are overblown, and what, in this multi-national competition, is at stake as we imagine the best possible future for everyone. — Read More
Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
We sit down with RunwayML’s CEO Cristobal Valenzuela to discuss the incredible tools they’re bringing to film and video creators (including last year’s Best Picture “Everything Everywhere All at Once” from A24), and the history + current state of the “visual” branch of generative AI. We cover how they’ve gone to market with both creators and enterprises, the potential for much more radical future use cases, and the company’s recent $141m strategic raise from Google, Nvidia + Salesforce and the context of the current AI fundraising landscape. Tune in! — Read More
Hollywood’s AI Future Is Now
Writers and actors in Hollywood are demanding more control over how artificial intelligence will be used by studios in the future. There’s a lot of dystopian language being thrown around — that AI could be an existential threat to livelihoods; that it could replace entire professions. But the thing is: AI is already very much a part of the Hollywood production process today. VFX artist Ryan Laney explains how he used AI to help disguise and protect the identities of LGBTQ+ people in a documentary called Welcome to Chechnya. … Less altruistically, AI has resurrected Paul Walker for the Fast & Furious franchise and de-aged multiple boomer leading men such as Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford. … [W]hether AI is good or bad is up to who controls the technology, not the tech itself. — Read More
The Hardware Behind the AI
AI Hardware, Explained: In 2011, Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world.” And in the last year, we’ve seen a new wave of generative AI, with some apps becoming some of the most swiftly adopted software products of all time.
So if software is becoming more important than ever, hardware is following suit. — Read More
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs: (U)nlocking the full potential of AI means a constant need for faster and more resilient hardware. — Read More
The True Cost of Compute: … But how much does this all really cost? In this final segment of our AI hardware series, we tackle that question head on. — Read More
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AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101
What are our LLMs actually trained on, and are we actually running out of data?
In April, we released our first AI Fundamentals episode: Benchmarks 101. We covered the history of benchmarks, why they exist, how they are structured, and how they influence the development of artificial intelligence.
Today we are (finally!) releasing Datasets 101! We’re really enjoying doing this series despite the work it takes – please let us know what else you want us to cover! — Read More
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