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The Oscars have rolled out the red carpet for generative AI. And surprisingly, viewers don’t seem to mind
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The Oscars have rolled out the red carpet for generative AI. And surprisingly, viewers don’t seem to mind

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Oscars have entered the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

Generative AI isn’t biting into wages, replacing workers, and isn’t saving time, economists say
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Generative AI isn’t biting into wages, replacing workers, and isn’t saving time, economists say

25,000 workers only saw a 2.8% time saving after using GenAI chatbots 8.4% saw new tasks being created, adding to their workloads Time...

Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don’t understand its impacts
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Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don’t understand its impacts

Only 36 per cent of survey respondents were familiar with the rules and ethics around GenAI. Credit: Social Media Lab, CC BY When...

Generative AI masters the art of scent creation
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Generative AI masters the art of scent creation

The AI-powered OGDiffusion model shows potentioal for poineering application of diffusion models for scent generation. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Addressing the challenges...

The Oscars’ new AI rule provides a tentative green light for generative tech in movies
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The Oscars’ new AI rule provides a tentative green light for generative tech in movies

Ahead of the 98th Oscars ceremony, scheduled for March 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made its first official...

Text2Robot platform leverages generative AI to design and deliver functional robots with just a few spoken words
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Text2Robot platform leverages generative AI to design and deliver functional robots with just a few spoken words

Overview of the four steps in Text2Robot framework. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.19963 When personal computers were first invented, only a small group...

As generative AI becomes more sophisticated, it’s harder to distinguish the real from the deepfake
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As generative AI becomes more sophisticated, it’s harder to distinguish the real from the deepfake

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” no longer...

Technology has shaped human knowledge for centuries. Generative AI is set to transform it yet again
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Technology has shaped human knowledge for centuries. Generative AI is set to transform it yet again

Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come about through the...

Minecraft developer rejects generative AI, ‘it’s important that it makes us feel happy to create as humans’
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Minecraft developer rejects generative AI, ‘it’s important that it makes us feel happy to create as humans’

Employees of Minecraft developer Mojang have spoken on the role of generative AI in game development at a recent event They didn’t seem...