Synthesia’s hyperrealistic deepfakes will soon have full bodies
“It’s very impressive. No one else is able to do that,” says Jack Saunders, a researcher at the University of...
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Roundtables: The Future of AI Games
The Future of AI GamesSpeakers: Niall Firth, executive editor, and Allison Arieff, editorial director Generative AI is coming for games...
The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and using math to shape wood
1 Big Tech firms are going all-in on experimental clean energy projectsDue to the fact AI is so horribly polluting....
Meet the architect creating wood structures that shape themselves
Instead of viewing these natural tendencies as liabilities, Achim Menges, an architect and professor at the University of Stuttgart in...
The Download: replacing animal testing, and underwater drones
Animal studies are notoriously bad at identifying human treatments. Around 95% of the drugs developed through animal research fail in...
Should social media come with a health warning?
Other studies have found that social media has no effect on mental health. In a study published last year, Plackett...
Is this the end of animal testing?
Shuler had hoped to develop a computer model of a multi-organ system, but there were too many unknowns. The living...
How underwater drones could shape a potential Taiwan-China conflict
The report’s authors detail a number of ways that use of drones in any South China Sea conflict would differ...
The Download: playing games with AI
To make them feel alive, open-world games like Red Dead Redemption 2 are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters....
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
Inworld wants to make this type of interaction more polished. It’s offering a product for AAA game studios in which...
The Download: video-generating AI, and Meta’s voice cloning watermarks
You may not be familiar with Kuaishou, but this Chinese company just hit a major milestone: It’s released the first...
The return of pneumatic tubes
By the 1960s, pneumatic tubes were becoming standard in health care. As a hospital administrator explained in the January 1960...
I tested out a buzzy new text-to-video AI model from China
The short-video platform, which has over 600 million active users, announced the new tool on June 6. It’s called Kling....
Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech
However, there are some big caveats. Meta says it has no plans yet to apply the watermarks to AI-generated audio...
Scaling green hydrogen technology for the future
Thyssenkrupp nucera has entered into a strategic partnership with the renowned German research institute Fraunhofer IKTS to move the technology...
The Download: AI’s limitations
The World Health Organization’s new chatbot launched on April 2 with the best of intentions. The virtual avatar named SARAH,...
Why artists are becoming less scared of AI
This all should be reassuring news for any creative people worried that they could lose their job to a computer...
Why does AI hallucinate?
To guess a word, the model simply runs its numbers. It calculates a score for each word in its vocabulary...
The Download: artificial surf pools, and unfunny AI
For nearly as long as surfing has existed, surfers have been obsessed with the search for the perfect wave. While...
The cost of building the perfect wave
Surf pools’ proponents frequently point to the far larger amount of water golf courses consume to argue that opposing the...