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Seattle’s former Cinerama becomes SIFF Cinema as new signs go up on iconic movie theater

GeekWire

Our annual technology conference, now in its 12th year, will be a half-day format, focused on the new era of artificial intelligence. GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) SIFF announced on May 5 , at its Seattle International Film Festival, that it was purchasing Cinerama from Allen’s estate.

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Latest round of Unity layoffs impacts 50 Seattle-area employees

GeekWire

Less famously, Unity has also seen use in making films, training artificial intelligence, worker training films, and model creation for automakers and architects. In September, Unity announced it would alter the terms by which it licensed its engine to game developers.

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The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice

Vox

September, mind you, is the month that Johansson says Altman first requested to license her voice. According to Johansson, conveying a sense of comfort was exactly Altman’s goal in trying to license her voice nine months ago. “He According to Altman , “We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms.

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AI agents will transform business processes — and magnify risks

CIO Business Intelligence

More power, more responsibility Blockbuster film and television studio Legendary Entertainment has a lot of intellectual property to protect, and it’s using AI agents, says Dan Meacham, the company’s CISO. “We “Also, software engineering is easier to verify, so you can have semi-supervised systems that can check each other’s work.

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Everyone will be able to clone their voice in the future

The Verge

AI speech synthesis is quick, easy, and uncannily good Cloning your voice using artificial intelligence is simultaneously tedious and simple: hallmarks of a technology that’s just about mature and ready to go public. Bruce Willis, for example, has already licensed his image to be used as a visual deepfake in mobile phone ads in Russia.

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Generative AI rush sparks new questions, concerns about music and intellectual property laws

GeekWire

Now, as a rush of entrepreneurs and large companies look to cash in on the rise of generative artificial intelligence, concerns that the technology industry is playing fast and loose with intellectual property laws are starting to resurface. ’ There’s nothing that really defines that right now. ” Heather Johnson.

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GenAI firm Runway partners with Hollywood giant Lionsgate

Dataconomy

Runway is also exploring the possibility of offering licensed versions of these AI models, giving independent creators the ability to build and customize their own AI tools for personal projects. Like a child driven by the desire to play with their favorite toy, engineers accepted the challenge the film presented.

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