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OpenAI has introduced Sora, an AI model that can create photorealistic videos “featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions” up to a minute long using detailed instructions provided by a user in text format. For example, you can provide Sora with this prompt: Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous Sakura petals…

a, Map of the sampling sites in inner and outer Frobisher Bay where sediment cores were collected in 2017 and 2018. b, Map of the sampling sites in Koojesse Inlet near the City of Iqaluit that overlaps the same region of inner Frobisher Bay. Credit: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100313 Although contaminant levels in Arctic environments are often lower than those in temperate locations…

I have an account with ChatGPT, the public Artificial Intelligence Resource that is both fascinating and sometimes troubling. I had read articles where some AI resources were able to reason and provide answers in the voices of notable people. The theory of the universe in rhyme as well as Socratic interpretation of a Happy Meal were available to our quest for higher thought. So, the Beatles-freak in me asked ‘it’ to assume the character of John Lennon in an imaginary reunion with Paul McCartney in the afterlife.…

It is not hard — at all — to trick today’s chatbots into discussing taboo topics, regurgitating bigoted content and spreading misinformation. That’s why AI pioneer Anthropic has imbued its generative AI, Claude, with a mix of 10 secret principles of fairness, which it unveiled in March. In a blog post Tuesday, the company further explained how its Constitutional AI system is designed and how it is intended to operate. Normally, when an generative AI model is being trained, there’s a human in the loop to provide quality…

Making the best use of the free tier subscriptionPhoto from Unsplash courtesy of Edurne.The Microsoft Translator API is one of the easiest translator services to set up, and it’s quite powerful, giving you access to translators for a multitude of low and high resource languages for free. However, it has a 50000 max character limit per request and a 2 million max character limit per hour of use (on the free version). So while the service itself is very easy to setup and use, using it reliably is quite difficult.In this…

Tesla, which is known for its touchscreen-based user interface, is finally getting some buttons and physical inputs, thanks to a new smart accessory. Love or hate Tesla, it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t have the best user interface in the auto industry. It’s miles ahead of other automakers; as such, most of them are now offloading most of the experience to Apple and Android because of it. However, if there’s a main complaint about Tesla’s in-car user interface, it’s the lack of physical…

Graphic: RazerThe Razer Kishi V2 is already an effortless way to upgrade your smartphone into a handheld gaming machine, but a new software update for both the Kishi V2 hardware and its accompanying Nexus app now makes the clamp-on controller compatible with games that only support touchscreen inputs. At least if you’re on Android.Despite most smartphones packing processors that can easily outperform what’s included in many modern handheld gaming consoles, the types of games that can be enjoyed on a mobile device are…

And how you need to invoke complex numbers to solve a leet-code problem on convolutionPhoto by NOAA on UnsplashMany people consider complex numbers an esoteric concept, showing up in the depths of mathematics and removed from practical applications.Now, consider that the most influential algorithm in computer vision is convolutional neural networks. So, an algorithm that performs convolutions as efficiently as possible is important. And in order to develop the most efficient algorithm, you need to invoke complex numbers.…

Microsoft has announced a lineup of adaptive accessories which are meant to augment or replace the regular keyboards and mice that people with disabilities could struggle to use. The lineup consists of three different devices: the Adaptive Mouse, Adaptive Buttons, and the Adaptive Hub. The mouse and buttons are made to support 3D-printed accessories so you can customize them to work the way you want them to. The mouse core that houses the buttons and sensor is a small, square-shaped puck that’s designed to clip into a…