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Television
fromInsideHook
3 days ago

Glen Powell and "SNL" Took on AI Hallucinations

Glen Powell's long-delayed SNL hosting displayed versatile characters and highlighted a chilling AI-photo sketch that explored the uncanny valley and AI hallucination concerns.
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator

The clip, which circulated on social media, show a robotic exoskeleton strapped to a harness walking in a straight line. While XPeng's Iron units are usually clad in a sleek white skin, this one is totally nude - and it looks like something straight out of the post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout, or like the titular antagonists from the "Terminator" franchise. The bot also cleans up nicely.
Gadgets
Marketing
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Coke's New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

Coca-Cola released an AI-generated "Holidays Are Coming" ad that echoes the 1995 classic but features uncanny visuals, animal-focused scenes, and disjointed hyperrealism.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video and audio AI generator whose unsettling, unconvincing promotional deepfake of Sam Altman drew heavy social-media criticism.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

A Chinese robotics company demonstrated a humanoid head capable of expressing lifelike emotions through subtle facial movements powered by AI and bionic actuation.
Artificial intelligence
fromDigiday
2 months ago

Marketers warm to AI, but creative challenges and legal risks still loom

Many marketers avoid AI-generated human likeness in final ads due to authenticity concerns, uncanny-valley visuals, legal challenges, and potential brand reputation harm.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Stephen Colbert explains one of his big hangups about AI-created art

AI can technically mimic art but lacks human emotional imperfections and authenticity, producing an alien, processed experience that cannot fully replicate human intimacy.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Our writer let an AI interview him for a job. It wasn't fun

Job Bolt's AI avatars conduct simulated job interviews that feel unnerving due to twitchy non-verbal behavior, delayed responses, and lack of real-time conversational cues.
Video games
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

How Avatar Style and Perspective Affect Your VR Experience | HackerNoon

Self-embodied avatars enhance VR presence and distance estimation, significantly influenced by their realism and viewing perspective.
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