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Benedict Cumberbatch criticises “grossly wasteful” film industry

Benedict Cumberbatch has described the film industry as “grossly wasteful” in its excessive use of resources and energy.

“It’s a grossly wasteful industry. Think about set builds that aren’t recycled, think about transport, think about food, think about housing, but also light and energy. The amount of wattage you need to create daylight and consistent light in a studio environment. It’s a lot of energy.” #Film #Cinema

David 5 months ago

My Ethical AI Principles

Sign posted in the common kitchen at the campground in Selfoss, Iceland, where this article was written I understand. Artificial Intelli...

#AI #Ethics

David 5 months ago

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02343-x #AI #LLM #Math

David 5 months ago

Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early

Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early — Crooked Timber

#AI #LLM #Theory

David 5 months ago

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation ...

#AI #Privacy

David 5 months ago

Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI

The Conversation

Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI

Democrats and Republicans alike have concerns about AI and want to see the rapidly developing technology regulated to protect the public.

#AI #Regulation #Poll

David 5 months ago

How to run an LLM on your laptop

MIT Technology Review

How to run an LLM on your laptop

It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how.

#AI #LLM

David 5 months ago

AI is replacing human connection as it boosts productivity. Success requires elevating relationships while embracing the technology

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#AI #Work

David 5 months ago

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.

#Cloudflare #UK #Piracy

David 5 months ago

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

MIT Technology Review

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

The proof-of-concept technology removes a layer of digital “poison” meant to disrupt AI models that scrape online images for training.

#AI #Art #DRM

David 5 months ago

Saving Cinema: AI’s Starring Role in Preserving Film Archives

Pulitzer Center

Saving Cinema: AI’s Starring Role in Preserving Film Archives

It is 2:00pm on a seemingly normal January day in Los Angeles, where MTI Film’s CEO Larry Chernoff and his team are focused on preserving the leg...

#AI #Cinema #Film

David 6 months ago

Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially

IEEE Spectrum

Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months

By 2030, AI will greatly outperform humans in some complex intellectual tasks. Discover how LLMs are doubling their capabilities every seven months.

#AI #LLM

David 6 months ago

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

Quanta Magazine

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity | Quanta Magazine

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s ...

#AI #Art

David 6 months ago

AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case

TheWrap

AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case

A California federal judge ruled Anthropic can use copyrighted books to train its Claude AI model without authors' consent

#AI #LLM #Copyright

David 6 months ago

AI Authorship Revisited https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-authorship-revisited/ #AI #Copyright

David 6 months ago

The Global A.I. Divide Where A.I. Data Centers Are Located

Techmeme

Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50%+ of the world

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

#AI #Datacenters

David 6 months ago

Democratize AI or Make the AI Oligarchy an Inevitability

Artificial intelligence technologies are leading us to a critical juncture, forcing a fundamental rethinking of both work and the welfare state. Th...

#AI #Politics

David 6 months ago

What happens when you feed AI nothing Artist Terence Broad makes AI produce images without any training data at all.

The Verge

What happens when you feed AI nothing

No inputs, no influences.

#AI #Art

David 6 months ago

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

The Verge

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs

With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

#AI #Music #Copyright

David 6 months ago

The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x #AI #Emissions