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New trailer for AI sci-fi thriller T.I.M looks suitably creepy and tense

December 7, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

We’ve got a new trailer for you to watch, and it’s for a creepy AI-themed movie called T.I.M. – described as a ’90s-style sci-fi thriller, starring Barbarianā€˜s Georgina Campbell.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: artificial intelligence

Generating AI images uses the same amount of energy as charging a phone

December 1, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Using generative AI to create images could be using as much energy as it takes to charge your smartphone, a new study has found.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence

Feeling bored? GlasgowGPT is actually quite a laugh – and empathetic when you’re ill

November 10, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Got to admit, I’ve been feeling a little sorry for self the past couple of days, as I have the lurgy (bad cold). So, when I saw a friend posting about GlasgowGPT, I thought it might be a fun way to while away a few minutes without doing anything too brain intensive.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence

CD Projekt Red included a deceased actor’s voice in Cyberpunk 2077 DLC with the help of AI

October 13, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

CD Projekt Red recently confirmed it reconstructed the voice of a deceased acting using AI voice cloning software for Cyberpunk 2077’s new Phantom Liberty DLC.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cd projekt red, cyberpunk 2077

Mattel wins the race to sell the first board game with integrated AI

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Google tech. Mattel’s new Pictionary uses the “Quick, Drawl!” artificial intelligence, which I’ve used loads and helped train the AI. It’s free to play.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, board game, google, Mattel

Coca-Cola creates latest soda flavour using A.I. and no, we’re not kidding

September 16, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

It may feel like the start of a Black Mirror episode, but Coca-Cola has created a ‘limited edition’ flavour of Coke using artificial intelligence, and the flavour? It’s called Coca-Cola Y3000 Zero Sugar. What does that mean? It probably means you have to buy it to see what the frog kind of flavour it actually […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence, drinks

Google announces invisible digital watermark; a first step in bringing transparency to AI art

August 29, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Google has just taken its first steps towards transparency when it comes to AI-generated images, by announcing SynthID; a watermarking tool for generative art. The announcement came from Google DeepMind today, which says the new technology will embed a digital watermark that’s ‘invisible to the human eye’ directly onto the pixels of an image. As […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ai, art, artificial intelligence

The End of the World by AI: Artificial Intelligence takeover apocalypse

August 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Ultimately, the possibility of an AI takeover is a sobering one. It is a reminder that we are not the only intelligent species on Earth, and that we are vulnerable to threats that we cannot fully understand.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: artificial intelligence

It may not be time to freak out about AI just yet

August 9, 2023 by Matthew Hall Leave a Comment

Generative AI, often talked up by doomsayers as a world-ending job bomb, definitely has its limitations. Even the people who create these large language models (LLMs) have already said that we’re very fast approaching the limits of what it can do. Open AI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stated very clearly at an MIT event in April […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence

D&D’s Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants! uses AI art, and WotC has changed the rules

August 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fans spotted details in the illustration, tell-tale signs that a machine had rendered the image in the D&D sourcebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

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