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fromFuturism
3 days 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
1 month 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.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

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

"The Late Show" host said on an episode of the "Possible" podcast published Wednesday that AI can mimic art but will always struggle to escape the "uncanny valley." He asked whether AI-generated art will ever stop feeling "alien." True art comes from people because it fuses ideas with emotional experience, he said. "Art is by humans for humans about being human. It's not about ideas because ideas are constructs, and humans are not a construct," Colbert said.
Artificial intelligence
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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