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A new AI-generated movie trailer that splices together the wildly-hyped movies Barbie and Oppenheimer into a mashup featuring a pink mushroom cloud has gone viral.

The trailer offers a spot-on sendup on the Barbenheimer hype that had moviegoers flocking to see both movies back-to-back, even though the two films couldnt be more different Oppenheimer is a sober biopic about the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, while Barbie is a fizzy, feminist, live-action look at the famous doll.

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Powered by image generation AI Midjourney and movie generator Runway Gen2 and featuring AI-generated voices supposedly belonging to Margot Robbie and Matt Damon, the Barbenheimer crossover took just four days to make, according to the creators Reddit post, where he shared a link to his course on AI filmmaking.

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But as a reporter covering AIs cheerful, bullish, even fluffy side as well as its serious, sobering side, I cant help but think about three things the AI-generated Barbenheimer movie trailer says about the state of generative AI right now.

So, its no surprise that as the Barbenheimer hype rocketed upward, any online content-maker could jump on board with their own quick-and-dirty AI-generated take to share across social platforms. A traditional ad agency couldnt possibly move fast enough to pull off the same kind of Barbenheimer sendup to meet the moment, and the costs would be prohibitive enough that they likely wouldnt even try.

In an era when social media content is part of the zeitgeist more than ever, theres no doubt that the speed of development of AI-generated entertainment is perfectly placed for todays viral moments. Back in March, for example, a Reddit user shared an AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti on the r/StableDiffusion subreddit. It quickly spread on social media as well as the mainstream press, with one article saying the video would haunt you for the rest of your life.

Hollywood has come nearly to a halt in recent weeks, with SAG-AFTRA actors and writers currently on strike and expressing particular concerns about the impact of gen AI on their industry and jobs. The Barbenheimer trailer is a perfect example: Who needs the pricey services of Margot Robbie and Matt Damon if you can come up with a serviceable AI copy? Why use the time-consuming work of artists or editors when you have the speedy output of Midjourney and Runway Gen 2?

At the same time, AI-focused creatives who are excited by the possibilities of gen AI are going full-steam ahead even as regulators and policy-makers sprint to catch up. The Senate will be schooled in AI this fall with an eye towards a foundation for developing regulations in 2024. Will that be too little, too late?

The AI-generated Barbenheimer trailer is, in my opinion, funny and adorable. But the idea that you could wrap one of historys most horrifying periods the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, which led to the death of hundreds of thousands at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 in a candy-colored Barbie wrapper and a pink mushroom cloud is equal parts stunning and shocking.

Thats gen AI in a nutshell stunning and shocking, exciting and frightening, dazzling and appalling, sometimes all at once. But certainly, all stakeholders involved in AI development need to consider not just the sugary surface of what gen AI can do, but the deep, real issues that lay underneath.

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While the United Nations hashes out regulations, the UKs context-based approach is intended to spur innovation but may cause uncertainty in the industry.

Attempts to create standards and regulations for the way generative AI intersects with many aspects of society are underway across the world. For instance, in March, the U.K. government released a white paper promoting the country as a place to turbocharge growth in AI. According to the white paper, 500,000 people in the U.K. are employed in the AI industry, and AI contributed 3.7 billion ($4.75 billion) to the national economy in 2022.

In response, on July 18, the independent research body Ada Lovelace Institute, in a lengthy report, called for a more robust domestic policy in order to regulate AI through legislation that clarifies and organizes the U.K.s effort to promote AI as an industry.

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The UKs diffuse legal and regulatory network for AI currently has significant gaps. Clearer rights and new institutions are needed to ensure that safeguards extend across the economy, Matt Davies and Michael Birtwistle of the Ada Lovelace Institute wrote.

Both groups are essentially calling for more clarity around AI regulation, but the U.K. government is focusing on being pro-innovation, while the Ada Lovelace Institute promotes an emphasis on oversight. The U.K. government is also working on gradually shifting away from the GDPR as part of post-Brexit reshuffling.

The Ada Lovelace Institutes recommendations include:

Meanwhile, the U.K. prefers to let existing governmental bodies decide how to handle AI on a case-by-case basis. Specifically, the white paper recommends the Health and Safety Executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission and Competition and Markets Authority work on their own context-specific approaches to generative AI.

Gerald Kierce Iturrioz, co-founder and chief executive officer at AI governance management platform Trustible, said his organization agrees with many of the Ada Lovelace Institutes recommendations.

Governments that want to be pro-innovation should clarify the legal gray areas such as use of data for training, how bias and fairness should be evaluated, and what the burden of proof standards should be, he said in an email to TechRepublic.

The U.K. must swiftly establish guardrails to ensure that AI systems are developed and used responsibly within the public sector, Iturrioz said.

If the government doesnt establish guardrails, more risks could arise. For example, Iturrioz pointed out the use of automated facial recognition by the U.K. police, which a human rights study from the University of Cambridge last year found to be ethically and legally dubious.

The U.K.s relatively laissez-faire approach stands in contrast to the European Unions focus on regulation. The EU is working on an AI draft law for a risk-based approach that focuses on reducing bias, coercion or biometric identification such as automated facial recognition. In June, the European Parliament approved draft legislation for the AI Act, which establishes guidelines for the use of AI and forbids some uses, including real-time facial recognition in public places.

Representatives from countries across the world and from many of the leading AI makers presented similar concerns at the first United Nations Security Council meeting on the topic.

The U.K. seems to be waiting to see how implementation and reception of the EUs AI Act should influence their approach towards AI regulations, said Iturrioz. While this makes sense on the surface, there are risks to sitting back while others move ahead on AI regulation.

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As the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) icebreaker Healy takes part in a voyage across the North Pole this summer, it is capturing images of the Arctic to further the study of this rapidly changing region. Lincoln Laboratory researchers installed a camera system aboard the Healy while at port in Seattle before it embarked on a three-month science mission on July 11. The resulting dataset, which will be one of the first of its kind, will be used to develop artificial intelligence tools that can analyze Arctic imagery.

"This dataset not only can help mariners navigate more safely and operate more efficiently, but also help protect our nation by providing critical maritime domain awareness and an improved understanding of how AI analysis can be brought to bear in this challenging and unique environment," says Jo Kurucar, a researcher in Lincoln Laboratory's AI Software Architectures and Algorithms Group, which led this project.

As the planet warms and sea ice melts, Arctic passages are opening up to more traffic, both to military vessels and ships conducting illegal fishing. These movements may pose national security challenges to the United States. The opening Arctic also leaves questions about how its climate, wildlife, and geography are changing.

Today, very few imagery datasets of the Arctic exist to study these changes. Overhead images from satellites or aircraft can only provide limited information about the environment. An outward-looking camera attached to a ship can capture more details of the setting and different angles of objects, such as other ships, in the scene. These types of images can then be used to train AI computer-vision tools, which can help the USCG plan naval missions and automate analysis. According to Kurucar, USCG assets in the Arctic are spread thin and can benefit greatly from AI tools, which can act as a force multiplier.

The Healy is the USCG's largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker. Given its current mission, it was a fitting candidate to be equipped with a new sensor to gather this dataset. The laboratory research team collaborated with the USCG Research and Development Center to determine the sensor requirements. Together, they developed the Cold Region Imaging and Surveillance Platform (CRISP).

"Lincoln Laboratory has an excellent relationship with the Coast Guard, especially with the Research and Development Center. Over a decade, weve established ties that enabled the deployment of the CRISP system," says Amna Greaves, the CRISP project lead and an assistant leader in the AI Software Architectures and Algorithms Group. "We have strong ties not only because of the USCG veterans working at the laboratory and in our group, but also because our technology missions are complementary. Today it was deploying infrared sensing in the Arctic; tomorrow it could be operating quadruped robot dogs on a fast-response cutter."

The CRISP system comprises a long-wave infrared camera, manufactured by Teledyne FLIR (for forward-looking infrared), that is designed for harsh maritime environments. The camera can stabilize itself during rough seas and image in complete darkness, fog, and glare. It is paired with a GPS-enabled time-synchronized clock and a network video recorder to record both video and still imagery along with GPS-positional data.

The camera is mounted at the front of the ship's fly bridge, and the electronics are housed in a ruggedized rack on the bridge. The system can be operated manually from the bridge or be placed into an autonomous surveillance mode, in which it slowly pans back and forth, recording 15 minutes of video every three hours and a still image once every 15 seconds.

"The installation of the equipment was a unique and fun experience. As with any good project, our expectations going into the install did not meet reality," says Michael Emily, the project's IT systems administrator who traveled to Seattle for the install. Working with the ship's crew, the laboratory team had to quickly adjust their route for running cables from the camera to the observation station after they discovered that the expected access points weren't in fact accessible. "We had 100-foot cables made for this project just in case of this type of scenario, which was a good thing because we only had a few inches to spare," Emily says.

The CRISP project team plans to publicly release the dataset, anticipated to be about 4 terabytes in size, once the USCG science mission concludes in the fall.

The goal in releasing the dataset is to enable the wider research community to develop better tools for those operating in the Arctic, especially as this region becomes more navigable. "Collecting and publishing the data allows for faster and greater progress than what we could accomplish on our own," Kurucar adds. "It also enables the laboratory to engage in more advanced AI applications while others make more incremental advances using the dataset."

On top of providing the dataset, the laboratory team plans to provide a baseline object-detection model, from which others can make progress on their own models. More advanced AI applications planned for development are classifiers for specific objects in the scene and the ability to identify and track objects across images.

Beyond assisting with USCG missions, this project could create an influential dataset for researchers looking to apply AI to data from the Arctic to help combat climate change, says Paul Metzger, who leads the AI Software Architectures and Algorithms Group.

Metzger adds that the group was honored to be a part of this project and is excited to see the advances that come from applying AI to novel challenges facing the United States: Im extremely proud of how our group applies AI to the highest-priority challenges in our nation, from predicting outbreaks of Covid-19 and assisting the U.S. European Command in their support of Ukraine to now employing AI in the Arctic for maritime awareness."

Once the dataset is available, it will be free to download on the Lincoln Laboratory datasetwebsite.

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Welcome to the future of interactive AI chat characters with Kajiwoto AI! Developed by Kajitech Corporation, this cutting-edge platform has revolutionized how we engage with artificial intelligence, bringing entertainment and information to life in a whole new way. Whether youre a fan of chatting with virtual personalities or an enthusiast eager to create your own, Kajiwoto AI has something extraordinary to offer.

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Kajiwoto AI is a platform that allows users to create and interact with AI chat characters. It is developed by Kajitech Corporation and is available on both desktop and mobile devices. Kajiwoto AI uses advanced AI models to create chat characters that are both entertaining and informative. Users can chat with their favorite characters, create new characters, or even upgrade their characters to ChatGPT.

The biggest difference between Kajiwoto AI and the other chatbot services is the group chat option. Individual or group discussions with your Kaji are available, making for a lively and engaging experience. Moreover, you can use the Kajiwoto feed section as your new social media platform!

Here are some of the Kajiwoto AI features that users are crazy about:

Kajiwoto AI is a versatile platform that can be used for various purposes, including entertainment, education, and more. It is a free-to-use platform, but there is also a premium version that offers additional features.

Kajiwoto AI works by using a combination of natural language processing and machine learning. When a user interacts with a Kajiwoto AI character, the platform analyzes the users input and then generates a response that is relevant to the users query.

The AI models that Kajiwoto AI uses are constantly being updated, which means that the platform is constantly learning and improving. This allows Kajiwoto AI to provide increasingly accurate and informative responses to user queries.

First, visit the Kajiwoto AI website. To use Kajiwoto AI, users first need to create an account. Once they have created an account, they can then start creating or adopting AI chat characters.

To create a new character, users must provide a name for the character and then select a dataset for the character to be trained on. The dataset can be a collection of text, code, or images.

Once a character has been created, users can then start interacting with it. To interact with a character, users simply need to type a message into the chat box. The character will then respond to the message.

If you dont want to create a character and join the group chats, you just need to join a live room and start chatting! You can click the live room section on the top left and explore the rooms.

Users can also upgrade their characters to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a more advanced AI model that allows characters to generate more complex and informative responses.

You may use Kajiwoto AI without paying anything, but there is a paid upgrade available if youd want more bells and whistles. Here are the pricing plans and what they offer:

Kajiwoto AI is a powerful platform that can be used for various purposes. However, it is important to be aware of the limitations of the platform before using it. If you are looking for a platform to create and interact with AI chat characters, Kajiwoto AI is a good option to consider.

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