The world has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI market is projected to reach a staggering $164.99 billion in 2023 and is expected to skyrocket to a value of $1,591.03 billion by 2030, thus establishing a robust and burgeoning economy. Gone are the …
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It’s hard to enter a place of business or have any professional conversations these days without artificial intelligence or AI coming up. With the recent release of accessible AI tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, and Google Bard, industries are abuzz with how AI will change the workplace and job roles. …
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When Paul McCartney announced the Beatles were releasing one final song later this year, with vocals extracted from a John Lennon demo via a machine-learning tool, the press jumped on a narrative of an “AI Beatles song.” Confused fans feared they were about to hear an AI-generated Lennon. But the …
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F or Benoit Carré, the future revealed itself in six notes. In 2015, Carré, a cerebral, bespectacled songwriter then in his mid-forties, became the artist-in-residence at Sony’s Paris-based Computer Science Laboratory, headed by his friend Francois Paçhet, a composer and leading artificial-intelligence researcher. Paçhet was developing some of the world’s …
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In the spring of 2020, a handful of shows developed to air on the basic cable channel FX instead debuted exclusively on Hulu. It was an attempt to better integrate different parts of the Disney corporate family in the aftermath of Disney acquiring most of Fox’s film and television assets, …
Read More »How Generative AI Can Impact Music and Content Creation
Generative AI is anew method of computing, and these systems are increasingly disrupting creative fields such as writing, art, coding, acting, and music. While labor unions and publishers in most of those industries started 2023 by taking legal actions related to AI, the music industry remained quiet until Universal Music …
Read More »Why Striking Hollywood Writers Fear an AI Future
For the first time since 2007, before streaming giants like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max existed, members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike May 1 after failing to negotiate a deal with Hollywood studios. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) entered into contract discussions with the …
Read More »Why AI Needs Blockchain
This year, artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly surpassed many of the other technological advancements trying to catch our attention and, as a result of this, the conversation has quickly shifted. In 2022, headlines were dominated by how blockchain and cryptocurrency serve as the keys to a trustless, inclusive financial system. …
Read More »'Mrs. Davis' Is a Bonkers Vision of Our AI-Controlled Future
Midway through the second episode of the new Peacock series Mrs. Davis, vengeful nun Simone asks her rodeo cowboy ex Wiley to help her make sense of the events of the show up to that point. “Don’t underestimate how stupid this gets, sweetheart,” he warns her. It is almost impossible …
Read More »How AI Is Changing Marketing
The first jobs impacted by artificial intelligence were ones based on the functioning of a task — jobs like auto manufacturing, food service providers, etc. Rapidly, we’re seeing AI start to revolutionize a different tier of jobs: those based on problem-solving like bookkeeping and accounting. The final phase in AI …
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