In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Akesson unveiled a playable accordion — called “The Commodordion” — he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a bellows made of floppy disks taped together. A demo of the hack debuted in an 11-minute YouTube video where Read more…
Google’s text-to-image AI system, Imagen, is being added to the company’s AI Test Kitchen app as a way to collect early feedback on the technology. AI Test Kitchen was launched earlier this year as a way for Google to beta test various AI systems. Currently, the app offers a few Read more…
A new art exhibition in San Francisco showcases some of the unique ways that artists have begun to incorporate Dall-E 2, GPT-3 and other AI systems into their work — efforts that go well beyond just typing some text and seeing what pops out. The exhibit, “Artificial Imagination,” comes amid Read more…
Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years. The answer from the industry’s incumbents, though, is “no” — not if we can start selling AI-generated content first. Today, stock image giant Shutterstock has Read more…
James Earl Jones is stepping away from the role of Darth Vader after nearly 40 years. According to Vanity Fair, he has signed off on using archival voice recordings to recreate the iconic voice with artificial intelligence. “He had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Matthew Read more…
Sir Jony Ive — the man designed the original iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad during his 22 years as Apple design chief — has claimed new-car buyers will drive demand for physical buttons to return in automotive entertainment systems. In recent years, car companies such as Tesla and Volkswagen have Read more…