Reimagining Museums in the Age of AI: TechCul Dialogues Explores New Possibilities
The TechCul Dialogues convened its first webinar session on Museums and Collections.
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The TechCul Dialogues convened its first webinar session on Museums and Collections.
Read the original →The article explores how PixAI Studio connects anime image generation, editing, character references, and video animation in one workspace.
Read the original →Sally Gray flew to San Diego in December 1996 for the children's science show It'll Never Work, which sent her to the visual arts department at the University of California. She was to meet a painter named AARON, who was 23 and whose work had hung in serious galleries. AARON was a computer program, and Gray introduced him that way on purpose.
Read the original →Users can use artificial intelligence to generate music to share with their friends. The feature echoes a similar paid Snapchat feature.
Read the original →Dancehall veteran Papa Michigan took to social media to "challenge AI" after music distributor TuneCore flagged one of his songs as AI. He showed the studio and the musicians who played the live music on the track, and said he did not use AI at any stage of production.
Read the original →Greta Garbo's descendants indicated they may be open to allowing a digital version of the actor to take on new roles.
Read the original →Ben Affleck said he spent eight months shooting a large collection of footage to train existing AI models for filmmaking tasks.
Read the original →The piece is set amid the current AI messaging war, in which AI is portrayed either as the best thing ever or as bringing the apocalypse.
Read the original →Kazakh creator Myrzakhan Zhumakhan won the Best Character award at the Astana AI Film Festival for his AI-generated comedy It Was Just a Joke. He has revealed the idea behind the film, according to Qazinform News Agency.
Read the original →A manga by Akira Shinjo posted on Instagram, with the theme that humans are scarier than AI, has drawn attention. The outlet interviewed the author about it.
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